kansas city regional cultural planning - arts summit 2011
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Harlan Brownlee and Allan Gray, City Councilman & incoming Board Chair for the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, presented at the Arts Summit, Friday August 26 about the benefits of a Kansas City Regional Cultural Plan.TRANSCRIPT
Mission Statement
• The mission of the Arts Council of
Metropolitan Kansas City is to
advance and support the arts for the
benefit of the Kansas City region.
What is a Cultural Plan?
• A community cultural plan is
the result of a planning
process that takes stock of:
– community's arts and cultural
assets,
– needs, opportunities, and
resources,
– and establishes a blue print
for developing a community
wide supportive environment
for the future.
What is a Cultural Plan?
• It is a unique community wide
process that engages
– multiple sectors of stakeholders
of a city, county or region in a
collective dialogue to set a
common vision.
– the entire community in a
process that seeks and
identifies ways to develop and
utilize the creativity, arts and
culture of a community.
What is a Cultural Plan?
• The common vision guides
a community in achieving
– multiple community wide
goals,
– creating vitality, artistic,
economic, and social
relevance.
– identification of current
and future public/private
infrastructure and facilities
needs.
What is a Cultural Plan?
• It is long-term and organic,
– providing opportunity for
modification, growth,
– development and expansion
of the plan to meet the on-
going needs of a community
over time.
• It is an opportunity for
communities to become
– innovative, creative,
– more accessible, diverse, and
sustainable.
Examples• Shreveport, Louisiana
– Deliberately positioned the arts as
a partner in economic and
community development
• State of Kentucky
– Recruited 600 volunteers to
gather information about the
state’s cultural on a county by
county basis
– After six months 75% of counties
were embedding cultural planning
within county planning
Examples
• Houston, Texas
– A branding campaign “to make
arts and cultural districts exciting,
beautiful, and entertaining”
– Achieve stabilization and growth in
the cultural arts sector as part of
the regions economic base
• Lee’s Summit, Missouri
– Cultural Plan recommended
that the City should commit
to an art/cultural identity as an
economic and community
development strategy
Overview of Today
• What could a regional
Cultural Plan accomplish?
– Discuss possible goals and
vision
– Keep the end results in sight
as we go
– Report out
“A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Overview of Today
• What would an ideal
process look like for
creating a cultural
plan?
–Report Out
• Next Steps
Our Facilitator for Today
• Stephen Hardy is
– Director of Planning at
BNIM.
– Stephen believes in
the power of our
communities to
transform the way we
live, interact, and grow.
What could a Regional
Cultural Plan accomplish?
• How could a common vision influence
regional arts programs and facilities?
• What kind of guidance is needed to
promote collaborative decision
making?
• How could the plan benefit the
region?
What would an ideal process look
like for creating a Cultural Plan?
• How would we start?
• Who would be willing to be a
stakeholder?
• What might a planning steering
committee look like?
• How could we keep momentum?
• How will the process be supported?
• How could we ensure buy-in?