Cornwall Cultural Strategy

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Cornwall Cultural Partnership
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Cornish Language Partnership
Cornwall Council
Cornwall Sports Partnership
Bywnans Kernow
Cornwall Cultural Partnership
World Heritage Site Partnership
Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum
Heritage Kernow
Cornwall Faith Forum
Creative Kernow
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Bywnans Kernow

• Gorseth Kernow
• Cornish Language Partnership
• Institute of Cornish Studies
• Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
• Cornwall Association of Local Historians
• Cornwall Family History Society
• Cornwall Garden Society
• Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek
• Agan Tavas
• Cussel an Tavas
• Cornish Pilot Gig Association
• Cornwall 2000
• Lowender Peran

• Cornish Wrestling Association
• Cornish Federation of Male Voice Choirs
• Cornish Brass Band Association
• Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association
• World Heritage Site Partnership
• Cornwall Heritage Trust
• Keskerth Kernow
• Cornish Lugger Association
• Cornish Maritime Trust
• Cornwall Historic Buildings Preservation Trust
• Cornish Literary Guild
• Cornish Dance Association

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Cornwall Cultural Strategytowards a Region of
Culture

• RAG ONAN HAG OLL

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• film music archery dance theatre sailing
  literature architecture songs language landscape
  painting sculpture cricket textiles gardens
  poetry gig-rowing graffiti food football
  wrestling archives drink games media galleries
  television exhibitions pantomime surfing swimming
  carnivals townscapes radio web riding fashion
  running antiques boxing libraries sport
  recreation archaeology pottery cycling design
  cartoons performance choirs rugby buildings
  ballet playing walking museums festivals
  gymnastics

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• film music archery dance theatre sailing
  literature architecture songs language landscape
  painting sculpture cricket textiles gardens
  poetry gig-rowing graffiti food football
  wrestling archives drink games media galleries
  television exhibitions pantomime surfing swimming
  carnivals townscapes radio web riding fashion
  running antiques boxing libraries sport
  recreation archaeology pottery cycling design
  cartoons performance choirs rugby buildings
  ballet playing walking museums festivals
  gymnastics

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Travel
W A L K I N G
Cooking
Politics
Film
Reading
World cultures
Work
Rugby
Friends
Horse riding
Buddhism
ME
Village life
Live music
Art Crafts
Cycling
Family
Heritage
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• So why develop a cultural strategy?

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Creates an advocacy tool and means of
prioritisation for continued and enhanced
investment, support and resourcing
Brings people together to achieve shared goals
aspirations promotes value of partnership
working
Provides a framework for engagement with the
sector by the new Cornwall Council Community
Networks, regional and national agencies, etc.
Creates a means of evaluating performance of the
sector against agreed targets
CREATES AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH CULTURE CAN THRIVE
CSP requirement of each Thematic Partnership
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• FIVE THEMES

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Cornish Rootswhich sustains, builds and
celebrates Cornwalls distinctive cultural
offering

• People place connected
• Traditions, heritage identity valued
• Resurgent cultural identity shared with other
  nations and minority cultures
• Connected Diaspora
• Distinctive authentic
• Change sustainability
• A culture that evolves and renews itself

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Culturally active communitywhich ensures people
can enjoy and benefit from cultural activity, and
which builds links between the cultural sector
and new audiences

• Improved health well-being
• Thriving cohesive communities
• Sustainable and inclusive economic regeneration
• Increased sustainability of the cultural offer
  and assets
• Relevant, distinctive, diverse and valued
  cultural offer
• Stronger, more resilient communities able to
  adapt to change

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Excellent cultural sectorwhich grows
sustainable, high value jobs which increases the
quality of the cultural offer available to the
local population and which builds Cornwalls
reputation as a beacon of cultural excellence

• Ambition
• Strategic direction for investment resourcing
• Knowledge transfer between sectors
• Dissemination of creativity innovation
  business growth
• Regeneration economic impact
• Reputation recognition
• Self-reflection friendly rivalry
• Openness to challenge competition

Jack Doherty, Lead Potter Leach Pottery, St. Ives
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Commitment to challengewhich harnesses the best
of Cornwalls assets, tacit knowledge and
intellectual property to improve service delivery
and seeks innovative solutions to local issues

• Local solutions to local issues
• Greater recognition of value of culture
• Mainstreaming culture
• Diversify funding streams
• Improved accessibility
• Quality of the environment
• Quality of life

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International reputation linkswhich creates a
two-way exchange between Cornwall and other
countries

• International markets for Cornwall
• Connectivity
• Local global identity
• Reputation recognition
• Inward investment
• Migrant populations
• Managing change
• Cultural enrichments
• Cornish intelligence
• Confidence ambition

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Next steps

• Incorporate sector consultation event held on 5
  November into emerging strategy
• Set within context of county, regional national
  sector strategy priorities
• Further baseline evidence gathering
• Final consultation gt Feb / March 09
• Final draft gt April 09
• Endorsement by CSP Cornwall Council

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But all of this is in the end about where were
from, where were at.and where were going
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Tin Fishes by Pauline Sheppard

• A snapshot of life in St. Just over the last
  three decades using the real words of real people
  and their experiences. This has been performed
  all over Cornwall and has provided employment for
  six practitioners. It has provoked much
  discussion with audiences about what culture
  means. It does not attempt to provide answers,
  but serves as a reminder to us all of recent
  change.
• St. Just has changed. Cornwall has changed.
  Change is inevitablebut the way that change is
  managed is important to the lives of communities.
• It is important to remember that you have to know
  where youve come from in order to see where
  youre going.
• Adapted from a fuller piece of work that was
  commissioned
• by St. Just Area Regeneration the World
  Heritage Site