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"The creation of this strategic cultural plan signals that the City of Vancouver has made support of and investment in the creative sector a priority."
Creator(s): City of Vancouver | Date Published: 2008-01
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« Le présent document, composé de trois parties, tente d'identifier et de mettre en perspective les éléments marquants du paysage culturel régional. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec - Comité de travail sous la coordination de Marcel Faucher | Date Published: 2007-10-16
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« Le présent document, composé de trois parties, tente d'identifier et de mettre en perspective les éléments marquants du paysage culturel régional. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec - Comité de travail sous la coordination de Marcel Faucher | Date Published: 2007-10-16
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« Le présent document, composé de trois parties, tente d'identifier et de mettre en perspective les éléments marquants du paysage culturel régional. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec - Comité de travail sous la coordination de Marcel Faucher | Date Published: 2007-10-16
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"The success of London and the UK’s Creative Industries are intertwined. Following the success of the LDA’s Creative Spaces programme and the ongoing development of the Government’s creative economy policy, Creative London, partnered by The Work Foundation, commissioned this piece of work to catalyse new ideas and approaches to how London can best develop and exploit its creative asset base."
Creator(s): Knell, John & Kate Oakley | Date Published: 2007-10-16
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« Deux rapports annuels distincts sont présentés dans le présent document, soit celui du ministère de la Culture et des Communications qui rend compte des activités et des objectifs de l’exercice financier se terminant le 31 mars 2007 et celui du Secrétariat à la condition féminine qui rend compte des activités et des objectifs relevant, au 31 mars 2007, du ministère de la Famille, des Aînés et de la Condition féminine. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine | Date Published: 2007-10
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"Every three years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development(OECD) conducts the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test of 15-year old students from all member countries measuring their abilities for logical reasoning and proficiency in mathematics. [...] In spite of this striking performance, to date Canada has not managed to transform itself into a strong leader in the knowledge economy's competitive arena."
Creator(s): Sacco, Pier Luigi & Elvy Del Bianco | Date Published: 2007-01
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"The goal of this project is to produce a strategy that addresses the current needs of Toronto’s creative economy, promotes its future growth and leverages these creative assets to enhance economic and social opportunity."
Creator(s): The Creative Cities Leadership Team | Date Published: 2006-07-24
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"Citizens, policy makers, civic leaders, economists, social scientists, and planners throughout the world understand that the creative sector of a region is vital to its competitiveness and quality of life."
Creator(s): Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance | Date Published: 2006
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"In February 2005, HRM embarked on creating a Cultural Plan to help guide our cultural development over the next several years. The Cultural Plan for HRM encompasses our rural, suburban, and urban areas, and recognizes our culture as the foundation of our social vitality and economic development."
Creator(s): Halifax Regional Municipality | Date Published: 2005-12-07
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"The City of Calgary Council: Three-year plan includes investment in cultural infrastructure"
Creator(s): The City of Calgary | Date Published: 2005-11
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"I have been asked to talk about the UK’s recent experiences in relation to ‘place’ based policy making and community engagement."
Creator(s): Helen Sullivan | Date Published: 2005-11
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"The Halifax Regional Municipality has recently launched a planning process to develop the Municipality’s first Cultural Planning Strategy. The HRM truly is at a cross-roads in its development."
Creator(s): Halifax Regional Municipality | Date Published: 2005-06
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"This Statement of Intent outlines expectations of the Ministry over the next five years. It establishes the overall direction that the Ministry will take, and sets out key strategies it will adopt in order to achieve the government's priorities."
Creator(s): Ministry For Culture & Heritage (New Zealand) | Date Published: 2005
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"The following guide to New Zealand’s cultural policies and agencies has been prepared by the Ministry as a contribution to a database for the Asia/Pacific region."
Creator(s): Ministry For Culture & Heritage (New Zealand) | Date Published: 2005
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"Arts Council England is the national development agency fir the arts in England. Between 2005 and 2008, we are investing 1.7 £ billion of public funds from Government and the National Lottery. This is the bedrock of support for the arts in England. Our vision is to promote the arts at the heart of national life, reflecting England's rich and diverse cultural identity. We believe that the arts have the power to transform lives and communities, and to create opportunities for people throughout the country."
Creator(s): Arts Council England | Date Published: 2005
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"Culture is already at the heart of Montréal’s identity, history, and social cohesion. This policy is Montréal’s way of stating also that culture is a key vehicle of its development, economic vitality and future prosperity."
Creator(s): Ville de Montréal | Date Published: 2004-11
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"One Landscape Many Views: This motto emphasises the district’s cultural diversity and the connections between our different communities."
Creator(s): City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council | Date Published: 2004-03-11
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"The Indianapolis Regional Center Plan is the official plan for Downtown Indianapolis. Developed by a 300-person stakeholder process and adopted as part of the City's Comprehensive Plan in March 2004, the 20-year plan is currently in the implementation phase."
Creator(s): Indianapolis Regional Center Plan 2020, Indianapolis Cultural Tourism Initiative | Date Published: 2004-03
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"Panel 1- Balancing Objectives in Cultural Policy, Presented during the Second World Summit of Arts and Culture, November 2003 in Singapore."
Creator(s): Sydney Bartley | Date Published: 2003-11
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"The meeting, which focused on Arts Education, Cultural Tourism, and Affordable Housing/Venues, was designed to inform The Plan of Nashville, an 18- month project to develop a community-based vision and design principle for metropolitan Nashville."
Creator(s): Center for Arts and Culture and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy | Date Published: 2003-07-10
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"Evidence suggests that initiatives in the leisure/cultural and tourism area play a far more significant role in urban regeneration than initially perceived."
Creator(s): Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council | Date Published: 2003-07-07
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"The Ottawa 20/20 Arts Plan aims to build and sustain Ottawa as a creative city. Implementation of the Arts Plan will reap robust economic and quality-of-life impacts that benefit all Ottawans."
Creator(s): City of Ottawa | Date Published: 2003-04
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"Dutch cultural policy is an edifice that has been built up in stages from a variety of ideological elements. All the major political and religious schools of thought have contributed to the process, just as they have to the creation of the welfare state, each one defending its own sacred cows in the resulting system."
Creator(s): Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science | Date Published: 2003
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"Le guide a été produit pour répondre aux besoins de soutien des municipalités dans l'élaboration de politiques culturelles."
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec | Date Published: 2003
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"Culture, as stated by the World Conference on Cultural Policies in Mexico City in 1982, is a leading source of intellectual renewal and human growth, and can be understood as embracing all creative activity, not only the traditional, or 'high', arts but popular mass culture as well."
Creator(s): Lia Ghilardi (Noema Research and Planning Ltd, London) | Date Published: 2002
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"The proposal for a Cultural Heritage Proposal."
Creator(s): Advisory Committee presided over by Roland Arpin | Date Published: 2000
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"Cultural policy is the expression of a government’s willingness to adopt and implement a set of coherent principles, objectives and means to protect and foster its country’s cultural expression. The arts are the very foundation of this expression."
Creator(s): Parlimentary Research Branch | Date Published: 1999-10-15
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"The planning system has been reborn – so why is the planning profession still plagued by the same old doubts and tensions?"
Lead Managing Organization: Demos | Start Date: 2006
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« La Zone culturelle de la Gaspésie est le résultat d'une réflexion régionale sur les applications possibles et souhaitées des NTIC. »
Lead Managing Organization: Conseil de la culture de la Gaspésie | Start Date: 2004
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"Most Canadians live in cities, and many of these citizens are children and young people, but few of our cities are child-youth friendly. Growing Up in Cities Canada (GUICC) is a program about increasing child and youth involvement in cities."
Creator(s): Growing Up in Cities | Date Published: 2005-12-14
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Guides & Case Studies |
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"The Cultural Planning Toolkit is a guide for the process of cultural planning in a community. It includes an adaptable model and practical checklists for navigating and charting progress. Background material and additional details are provided on this companion website."
Creator(s): Creative City Network | Date Published: 2007-02-23
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Related Materials
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"The Asia Pacific Journal of Arts & Cultural Management is an initiative of the University of South Australia’s Arts & Cultural Management Program. The journal aims to support the promotion of a research ethos within the arts and cultural sector in the Asia Pacific Region."
Creator(s): Arts & Cultural Management Program, University of South Australia | Date Published: 2003
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"To assist in preparing Canada’s position for the 2006 World Conference, the Commission is holding a series of regional consultations with specialists in the field of arts and learning."
Creator(s): Canadian Commission for UNESCO | Date Published: 2004-09
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« Le présent document correspond au plan de développement du tourisme culturel en Outaouais. Ce plan de développement comprend les principes directeurs, les orientations ainsi que les stratégies d’intervention qui guideront l’action en Outaouais en matière de tourisme culturel. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec | Date Published: 2004-08
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"The Forum for Cultural Cooperation with South East Europe is a virtual platform for cooperation between the countries of the European Union and the region of South East Europe."
Creator(s): European Cultural Foundation | Date Published: 2004-02
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"Strategic approach of increasing the quality of access for disabled people to the arts in Northern Ireland."
Creator(s): Arts Council of Northern Ireland | Date Published: 2004
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"This note represents the outcome of a conversation between thirteen Canadian and international thinkers and arts practitioners at Mount Engadine Alberta, July 5-7, 2004. It was hosted by the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts (Calgary), with much appreciated assistance from the Department of Canadian Heritage. A list of the participants is given at the end of the report."
Creator(s): Creativity Unbound EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts | Date Published: 2004
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"The report on the 2003 Chalmers Conference."
Creator(s): Canadian Conference of the Arts | Date Published: 2003
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"The report on the 2001 Chalmers Conference. "
Creator(s): Canadian Conference of the Arts | Date Published: 2001
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"The political priorities of Dutch cultural policy from 2000 to 2004 are laid out in the publication entitled 'Culture as Confrontation'. The main themes are planning, e-culture, cultural entrepreneurship, acquisition and exhibition of cultural assets, youth, cultural diversity and improved programming."
Creator(s): Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science | Date Published: 2001
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"In the spring of 2001, Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez launched the Cultural Tourism Initiative to identify strategies to promote cultural tourism as a major economic development strategy."
Creator(s): Bloomington and Monroe County | Date Published: 2001
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"The conception of developing a wider database on existing training programmes on cultural policy and management across different geographical areas was launched by the International Experts Meeting on “Cultural Policies: Training and International Co-operation."
Creator(s): European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers and UNESCO | Date Published: 2000
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"An international forum for research and policy on migration, diversity and changing cities"
Lead Managing Organization: Metropolis Project Team at Citizenship and Immigration Canada | Start Date: 1996
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«Liste des municipalités et des MRC ayant adopté une politique culturelle municipale.»
Creator(s): Gouvernement du Québec | Date Published: 2006
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"ArtsSmarts is the largest education initiative in Canada dedicated to improving the lives and learning capacity of Canadian children by injecting arts into their academic programs."
Creator(s): Canadian Conference of the Arts | Date Published: 2004-03-25
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«Ce site porte sur les modalités de l'intervention artistique en milieu scolaire et présente des textes réglementaires en vigueur et des adresses utiles.»
Creator(s): Centre de ressources de la Délégation au développement et à l'action territoriale | Date Published: 2003-12-23
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"Toronto's Celebration of Creativity."
Creator(s): Toronto Culture
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"European Cities Tourism is the leading professional tourism network promoting and linking the interests of European cities tourism."
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"It is an independent, non-profit organization, governed by a board of directors. Its mandate is to promote informed public debate on regional development and disseminate objective analyses and information on the subject. It pursues this mandate by delivering research, publishing, conference and scholarship programs."
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"The ACCC mission is to provide leadership in supporting member institutions in their provision of life-long learning opportunities which promote both individual development and that of the society and economy."
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"The Department of Education, Culture and Employment is responsible for supporting culture, heritage and language initiatives throughout the NWT."
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"The Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory (RVu) is a project based at Simon Fraser University and grounded in the urban community of regional Vancouver, British Columbia."
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"The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation."
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