2018-05-08 S&O Committee - Attachment 1 to Item 3 - Draft Noosa Cultural Plan

    Local Community Priorities


The following items are those that were recurring or         •   Art and culture should not just be seen as an
had significant support.                                         economic product as the importance of arts and
                                                                 culture in everyday lives needs to be recognised
•    The Noosa cultural sector has identified the need           and supported particularly for health, wellbeing
     for a new iconic gallery/cultural facility, which           and innovation.
     provides high quality exhibition space as well as
     spaces for creating, sharing and learning.              •   More opportunities are required for young
                                                                 people to engage with the arts outside of formal
•    Greater and broader recognition and inclusion               education.
     of the indigenous Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi
     cultural heritage is long overdue as recognition is     •   Cultural practitioners should have an improved
     currently perceived as being limited to Welcome             ability to make a living from home with home
     to Country openings or highlighted at a few local           galleries, studios and workshop/teaching facilities
     events such as Booin Gari and Floating Land.                without unnecessary over-regulation.

•    Funding and resource support for cultural sector        •   Support is required to ensure the survival of arts
     is a high priority with a desire to see it increased.       organisations and local events.

•    There is a sense of there being a lack of arts and
     cultural accredited educational opportunities           Priorities specific the Heritage sector were also
     in the local area and ongoing concern over the          identified including:
     vacant Noosa TAFE campus and its loss of arts
     courses.                                                •   Noosa has limited remaining built heritage
                                                                 in comparison to other communities such as
•    Stakeholders highly value the importance of                 Gympie or Maryborough however this does not
     maintaining Noosa as having a distinct local                mean we aren’t a heritage rich community. The
     identity and particularly highlight the link                Heritage sector needs to engage the community
     between arts and the Noosa environment.                     and visitors in interesting ways.

•    There is a strong desire for more visual and            •   There is a need to capture and tell the unique
     performing art in public spaces and the creation            story of Noosa and its people, particularly before
     and/or improvement of cultural precincts.                   we lose significant local identities or historical
                                                                 materials.
•    Quality professional development is critical,
     particularly in assisting artists as they strive        •   There is need to improve the coordination and
     to make a professional living, respond to the               responsibility for heritage issues within Council as
     changing world and ways of doing business and               it is currently fragmented or relying on the part-
     attempt to embrace emerging technologies.                   time Heritage Librarian.

•    There is a need for more affordable and accessible
     spaces for artists and creative activities.

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