Phase 1 – Background research and engagement summary

The Background Research Summary Memorandum identifies the different planning, market and people contexts, researches cultural trends, best practices and overall understanding our current cultural state.

The Engagement Summary outlines our process for public consultation and provides a detailed summary of the feedback given in response to our stakeholder interviews and surveys.

Phase 2 – Vision and guiding principles

Culture is at the centre of building communities within our Town. As we evolve, culture will be the connective tissue that brings people together through history, stories, creativity and community.

The guiding principles to achieve this cultural vision include:

• Champion diversity and inclusion in the cultural planning framework
• Ensure equitable access and opportunity to engage with our local art and culture
• Prioritize sustainability, resilience and environmental stewardship
• Being flexible and open in order to foster adaptable and integrated approaches to culture and cultural planning
• Being collaborative and engaged to develop partnerships and accountable cultural planning processes

View our staff report to learn more about our approach to drafting the vision and guiding principles.

Phase 3 – Drafted Culture Plan

View our drafted Culture Plan that summarizes our process, identifies our cultural planning landscape, our vision and guiding principles, and their directions.

Connecting creativity

This direction focuses on strengthening and diversifying our local arts, culture, heritage and creative sector offerings through investments in people and programs.

Connecting community

Culture thrives when community is on board. This direction provides approaches to foster and build community and partner support in order to build capacity and resilience within our art and culture sector.

Connecting places

Our cultural spaces and places generate a sense of belonging and pride amongst a diversity you bring to our community. This direction offers actions that preserve and enhance our spaces and places.

Connecting stories

This direction outlines approaches to celebrate and engage with our culture so that you see yourselves reflected in the cultural landscape, narratives and daily life within our Town.

Connecting the process

To ensure culture connects our community, the structure and process within the municipality must work to elevate and integrate culture's role within internal processes. This direction provides tactics to better internally support culture, structurally and financially.