2020-07-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE AGENDA                                                   7 JULY 2020



      Cultural Plan Key Themes                                        Highlights
                                               Two short films were produced with Kabi Kabi traditional
         History and Heritage:                  owners – The Place of Crowes and Tewantin’s Oyster
                                                Feasts
Noosa’s unique and rich heritage will be        [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvdA1INDgqQ] and
 known and valued by our community,             [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOhn06xFO4w]
helping to chart a responsible course for      Literary event with Jack Charles, actor and Aboriginal
                the future                      elder, attended by nearly 300 people
                                               Heritage Coordinator role and Heritage Unit established
                                                as part of the Libraries & Galleries branch to coordinate
                                                and oversight all heritage related activities, including
                                                management of Heritage Levy
                                               Twenty-seven additional oral histories of significant local
                                                people recorded as part of Noosa Notables project,
                                                contribution to creation of digital stories -
                                                [https://vimeo.com/user44349088]
                                               Ten Heritage Levy funded projects undertaken in 2018/19
                                                and 2019/20:
                                                o    Review of Local Heritage Register and supporting
                                                     documentation
Kabi Kabi descendants – Place of Crowes         o    Indigenous Cultural Heritage Project (resulting in
                launch                               short films noted above); co-funded by RADF grant
                                                o    Development of Online Cemeteries Search Tool
                                                     [https://cemeteries.noosa.qld.gov.au/interment]
                                                o    Noosa Notables Oral History project Stage 1 and 2
                                                o    Heritage Sector Development Program
                                                o    Historian-in-Residence program
                                                o    Remembrance Day Centenary Event (co-funded by
                                                     Queensland State Government grant)
                                                o    Digitisation of historic Noosa News & Noosa
                                                     Advocate in partnership with State Library of
                                                     Queensland and National Library of Australia
                                               Council began consultation with the Kabi Kabi First
                                                Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group to
      Jack Charles Literary Event               build and strengthen relationships, identify cultural
                                                heritage project priorities, and develop a consultation
                                                protocol.
                                               Heritage Unit/Heritage Coordinator won two awards:
                                                o    National Trust of Australia (Qld) Silver Award for
                                                     book Noosa Remembers
                                                o    Finalist GAMAA Individual Achievement Award




          Remembrance Day

                                               Council reviewed its approach to placemaking and
          Places and Spaces:                    approved a budget in 2019 for a pilot-placemaking
                                                program, with the intent to implement the pilot program in
Our sense of local identity and character       2020/21.
will be enhanced through quality design        In July 2019, Council adopted an Events Policy, to assist
and the inclusion of arts and heritage in       event providers to produce events with minimal negative
             public places                      impact on the environment. The associated Events
                                                Guidelines and communication with key stakeholders will
                                                be delivered in 2020.



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