2018-12-11 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 10 - Noosa Cultural Plan 2019-2023

WHAT IS CULTURE?

The term “Culture” has a wide range of meanings             Creative industries:
within government, industry and the community.
Noosa’s Cultural Plan will consider culture broadly to      A sector which harnesses a range of creative and
encompass arts, culture and heritage as conveyed in         business skills for commercial production and
Australia’s National Arts and Culture Accord (2013).        dissemination. Creative industries include film and
                                                            television production, broadcasting, electronic
The arts:                                                   games, architecture, design and fashion, publishing,
                                                            media and advertising.
The arts include music, performing arts, literature
and visual arts, in both their established and              Cultural heritage:
emerging art forms, and inter-arts activities. In
addition to the individual and collective activities        In parallel with the arts and creative industries there
of practitioners, for vocational or recreational            is a strong recognition of Australia’s diverse cultural
purposes, the arts include arts education,                  heritage, and the work of museums, galleries and
community arts, collections and performances                libraries and archives to preserve and provide access
which may be made available to the public in                to the artefacts and intangible heritage of Australia’s
galleries, libraries, theatres, cultural venues, training   culture. In particular, Australia’s heritage includes
institutions and increasingly on-line and broadcast.        Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures which
                                                            are amongst some of the oldest living cultures in the
                                                            world.