Here's a summary of the Framework provided by Create NSW
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Framework summary
Create in NSW is a ten year framework for contemporary New South Wales. It draws on the strengths and ambitions of our residents, artists, cultural workers and arts organisations across the diverse communities of Metropolitan Sydney, Western Sydney and Regional NSW.
Create in NSW sets a vision for a future in which arts and culture are central to the life of our State. Arts and culture enable lifelong learning, bring communities together, support the visitor economy and activate our civic spaces.
Simultaneously, arts and culture create opportunities for a new wave of economic growth. Investing in cultural infrastructure, supporting a culturally diverse workforce, and expanding national and international engagement, all contribute to a thriving economy.
Create in NSW is a platform for our arts and cultural sector, our communities and our business and government partners to collaboratively shape our cultural future. It supports vibrant arts and cultural activity across our State. Built on three mutually reinforcing ambitions – excellence, access and strength – Create in NSW will guide future strategy, investment and partnerships to grow a thriving, globally connected arts and cultural sector with and for the people of NSW.
Excellence
Our ambition for excellence will be achieved through a focus on:
Innovation
We will support and encourage our artists, organisations and State Cultural Institutions to take risks and extend the boundaries of their artforms and practices. Wider use of digital platforms will deepen the opportunity for access and artistic collaboration for people across NSW. New pathways and opportunities will draw upon NSW’s great strength — our cultural and linguistic diversity.
Leadership
We will champion leadership across the arts and cultural network. We have ambitious plans for our State Cultural Institutions — extending their reputation and impact, and exploring deeper and closer connections with the communities of NSW.
Aboriginal arts and culture
Aboriginal arts and culture in NSW is vibrant, distinctive and contemporary. We will extend opportunities to support the professional development of Aboriginal artists and cultural workers. We will also support Aboriginal communities’ ongoing connection with culture and language.
International connections
NSW stories will be told around the world. Arts and culture, already embedded in the identity of our State, will become essential to our thriving visitor economy. International exhibitions, partnerships and exchanges will grow, supporting and extending Sydney’s reputation as a global city, and progressing artists’ careers internationally.
Revitalising infrastructure
Cultural infrastructure enables the people of NSW to access the arts, contributes to urban renewal, and builds the State’s national and international reputation, supporting robust local and visitor economies. Arts and cultural facilities and precincts are essential platforms for creation and presentation for artists and cultural workers. We will scope opportunities to renew our cultural infrastructure and ensure we have sound business cases for development, prioritising opportunities with the largest impact to deliver our vision for the people of NSW. Our plans to transform our flagship cultural infrastructure, enhance arts precincts and support new opportunities will require private and public funding partnerships and innovative funding models.
Access
Our ambition for access will be achieved through a focus on:
Participation
Arts and culture are embraced by many people in NSW — as creators, workers, volunteers and audience members. We will increase opportunities for people to take part in, and shape, arts and culture. We will enable new arts experiences outside of the traditional spaces of galleries and theatres, as well as new ways of engaging to enhance enjoyment and learning opportunities. More than ever, our State Cultural Institutions will make NSW’s extraordinary treasures accessible to the wider community through touring, educational outreach and partnerships.
Arts for young people
We value the powerful and positive impact that arts and cultural participation can have on young people. We will work to broaden learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom, as well as arts and cultural career opportunities. We will develop a deeper dialogue with young people about reshaping our cultural life, empowering them to contribute to our plans and priorities.
Strength
Our ambition for strength will be achieved through a focus on:
Professional development
We want NSW to remain a location of choice for the mobile creative workforce. We will enable artists and creative practitioners to have new opportunities to grow their practice, connect with their peers and build sustainable careers.
Business sustainability
We will support and encourage the State Cultural Institutions and arts and cultural organisations to be entrepreneurial, by exploring new markets, alternative investment models and deeper relationships with the business sector. Streamlining and simplifying funding, and reforming regulatory and statutory requirements, will enable arts organisations and institutions to prosper. We will also explore opportunities for enterprise partnerships and social impact investing.
Networks and partnerships
We will enable collaborations, interdisciplinary works and partnerships between artists and arts organisations. Embedded throughout the policy framework is our new commitment to explore ways in which we can sustain and nurture engagement with arts and culture across agencies.
Research and evaluation
Improved understanding of the value and impact of arts and culture for the community and visitor economies, as well as the broader economy, is critical. We
commit to evaluating the impact of actions in this policy framework to inform future directions.
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For more information, see Create NSW
