Welcome DEVELOPING A NEW REGIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE ARTS: ARTS COUNCIL 5 YEAR PLAN 20062011

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WelcomeDEVELOPING A NEW REGIONAL STRATEGY FOR
THE ARTS ARTS COUNCIL 5 YEAR PLAN (2006-2011)
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Grant Awards NI 2001-06

• Exchequer funding 39m
• Lottery Capital 12.5m
• Other Lottery 30.5
• Total 82m
• Every 1 of ACNI support, levers 1.10

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Main Funding Programmes(Awarded) Excluding
Capital
05/06 Annual Support
Programme 7.6m Multi Annual
Programme 2.9m Support for
Individual Artists
1.0m Access 2.5m New Work
0.8m Awards for All
0.6m Lottery Arts Projects
0.4m Other Grants (Early
Years, Art of regeneration) 0.6m
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Larger Capital Awards 2001/022005/06Grand
Opera House 2.4mStrabane Arts Centre 0.75mAn
Gaelaras 0.65mThe Playhouse,
Derry 1.1mFlowerfield, Coleraine 1.3mConway
Mill 0.25mCrescent Arts Centre 1.2mLyric
2.3mLarne Arts Centre 0.27m and in
development Old Museum Arts Centre, Omagh Arts
Centre, Ballymena Arts Centre
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Comparison with other regions
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What we did well

• Plan - clearer more strategic
• Increased revenue funding for the arts
• SIAP valued by artists
• Key initiatives delivered CYP, ANI
• Linking with wider Govt. agenda
  Regeneration, Reconciliation, Education,
  Health
• Substantial continuing improvement in
  infrastructure (outside Belfast)
• Improvements in internal systems
  
  processes

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What we did less well

• Advocacy importance of the arts
• Delays in implementing some activities
  (introduction of BSP)
• Arts organisations feel vulnerable, stability
  issue of long-term viability
• Poor physical infrastructure for the Arts in
  Belfast
• Partnership working with local authorities

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Values

• Excellence
• Courage
• Creativity
• Relevant
• Ethical
• Listening

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Themes

• Art at the Heart
• Strengthen the Arts
• Growing Audiences
• Improving Organisational Performance

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Art at the heart (advocacy)

• Communicate the value of the arts to key
  decision makers
• Research evidence
• Arts Education the need for
  transformational change

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Strengthening the arts- individual artists

• Stimulating the sector encouraging new
  emerging artists
• Employability skills employment
  opportunities for artists, skills development
• Networking promotion
• International opportunities for showcasing
  performance

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Strengthening the arts- arts organisations

• Three year funding
• Strengthen governance accountability
  (through business support, networking,
  mentoring, sharing best practice)
• Establish gallery provision in Belfast

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Strengthening the arts- arts infrastructure

• Capital projects in development for Belfast
  Lyric, Cathedral Quarter Arts Centre (OMAC),
  Crescent Arts Centre
• Derry - An Gaelaras, Playhouse
• Ongoing Omagh, Ballymena, Strabane

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Growing audiences

• Participation Access tackling the
• barriers
• Audience Development Arts Marketing
• Commercial Opportunities

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Improving performance

• Grant funding schemes/application
  processes/benchmarking
• Evaluation monitoring
• Enhanced working relationships with
• clients
• Stronger regional engagement with
• local government
• Meeting expectations of government
• through an evidence-based approach
• (e.g. CSR2007)

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Art at the Heart
Strengthening the Arts
Growing Audiences
Improving Performance

Funding schemes grant processes Stronger
regional engagement Strengthening client
relationships
Communicating the value of the Arts Developing
the Evidence Education Debate
Individual Artists Arts Organisations Arts
Infrastructure
Participation Access Audiences Commercial
Opportunities
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THEME 1 ART AT THE HEART How do you think the
Arts Council can position the arts at the heart
of society? How can the Arts Council strengthen
its role as an advocate for the arts? THEME 2
STRENGTHENING THE ARTS How do you think this can
best be achieved? THEME 3 GROWING
AUDIENCES What can the Arts Council and its
funded clients do to tackle the barriers facing
people in accessing the arts? What do you think
should be done to encourage long-term growth in
audiences? THEME 4 IMPROVING ORGANISATIONAL
PERFORMANCE Are there aspects of the Councils
service on which you would wish to comment? Are
there other services that you think we should be
providing that would be valuable?
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