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Creative Communities - the NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy
Creative Communities is the state’s Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy, recognising the unique place of the sector in NSW.
Creative Communities is an inclusive policy that puts culture, arts, and the creative industries at the heart of NSW. It provides a framework for the next 10 years that supports artists, creatives and cultural organisations and expands to include the rapidly growing creative industries.
Silenced, Vox Theatre Photo: Natalie Low.
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Kirli Saunders at the South Coast Readers & Writers Festival 2024, Thirroul District Community Centre & Library. Photo: Matt Houston, Ironbark Photography
This strategy recognises writers as the engine of the literature sector and aims to make NSW a smart, creative state where writers and readers flourish.
Developed in consultation with writers, publishers, educators, festivals, libraries, booksellers, literary organisations and cultural institutions, it provides a targeted, high-impact framework backed by government investment.
Credit: Yousef Akbar, Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2023, Carriageworks, Sydney. Photo: Mark Nolan/Getty Images for AAFW.
The NSW Fashion Sector Strategy is the first of its kind, aligning with Creative Communities and developed in collaboration with industry.
It sets out a vision for the fashion industry in NSW with six strategic priorities to support and develop industry, to grow markets and profile nationally and internationally, and establish and extend pathways for new designers into the industry.
The Red Star, Alia Ali, Bankstown Arts Centre. Photo: Destination NSW.
The NSW Government’s 3-year plan (2025-2028) aims to unleash the region’s untapped potential and chart a path for sustainable sector growth.
It will support arts, culture and creative industries in Western Sydney to deliver social and economic value. Over the next 3 years, the plan will start to redress inequity, prioritise First Nations creative innovation, and leverage the extraordinary vitality of the Western Sydney festival sector.
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