Theatre Network Victoria has submitted a response to the National Cultural Policy consultation process: www.nationalculturalpolicy.com.au
In summary, Theatre Network Victoria’s response calls for the National Cultural Policy to include:
- Strategies to enhance the UN Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions;
- Promotion of the value of the arts in everyday life for disadvantaged Australians;
- Commitment to excellence in training for the arts equal to that afforded to sport;
- Clarification on how the non-arts portfolios will engage with a National Cultural Policy;
- Resources to build current Australian research and evidence in the arts;
- A commitment to a vibrant and financially secure small to medium performing arts sector;
- Support for contemporary Indigenous arts practice, as well as song, dance and stories;
- A strategy to better support the international touring of small to medium performing arts organisations;
- Support for artists to be at the table with scientists and economists in looking at Climate Change;
- A commitment that the review of the Major Performing Arts Board in 2012 includes a new examination of the small to medium performing arts sector.
- Extra resources for the Australia Council for the Arts to remain responsive to emerging artforms; and
- Resources put into the implementation of the National Arts and Disability Strategy.
More detail in the 11 page attached pdf file.
