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Establishing Strategic Priorities for Cultural Investment (2020-2024)

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2019-10-29 · Toronto City Council · adopted

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City Council on October 29 and 30, 2019, adopted the following: 1. City Council adopt the following strategic priorities to guide the City's investment in culture over the next five years (2020-2024): a. culture for all, to increase opportunities for all Torontonians, no matter where they live in the City, to participate in local, relevant cultural activities throughout the year that reflect Toronto's diversity and creativity; b.

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space for culture, to maintain and create new accessible, sustainable spaces for Toronto's creative sector in a growing City; and c. developing creative talent to strengthen Toronto's cultural workforce, and increase diversity and representation within the sector. 2. City Council request the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, in collaboration with Corporate Finance staff, to present to the November 8, 2019 meeting of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee on Part 1.b. above, with respect to maintaining and creating new accessible, sustainable spaces for Toronto's creative sector in a growing City.

The vote

Adopt Item · Carried, 24-0

For (24)Ana Bailão, Anthony Perruzza, Brad Bradford, Cynthia Lai, Denzil Minnan-Wong, Frances Nunziata, Gary Crawford, Gord Perks, James Pasternak, Jennifer McKelvie, Jim Karygiannis, Joe Cressy, John Filion, John Tory, Josh Matlow, Mark Grimes, Michael Ford, Michael Thompson, Mike Colle, Mike Layton, Paul Ainslie, Paula Fletcher, Shelley Carroll, Stephen Holyday
Absent (2)Jaye Robinson, Kristyn Wong-Tam
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Toronto's cultural sector - including the arts, film and entertainment industries, and museums and heritage - is a major economic driver and fosters healthy, vibrant communities across the city. In May 2011, City Council adopted Creative Capital Gains, which included 33 recommendations to position Toronto as an international creative capital. With the support of partners across the cultural sector, the City has now implemented the vast majority of the recommendations included in Creative Capital Gains.

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As well, the City achieved its longstanding goal of investing $25 per capita in arts and culture in 2018. Having achieved many of the objectives of Creative Capital Gains, the time is right for the City to consider a new framework to inform its investment in culture. This report builds on significant consultation across the culture sector and recommends that City Council adopt three strategic priorities for cultural investment over the next five years (2020-2024), including: 1. Culture for all, to increase opportunities for all Torontonians, no matter where they live in the city, to participate in local, relevant cultural activities throughout the year that reflect Toronto's diversity and creativity. 2. Space for culture, to maintain and create new accessible, sustainable spaces for Toronto's creative sector in a growing city. 3. Developing creative talent to strengthen Toronto's cultural workforce, and increase diversity and representation within the sector. The proposed priorities are outlined in detail in this report. If adopted, they will be used to guide the City's cultural programs and services, and shape investments related to the arts, film and entertainment industries, and museums and heritage. The proposed priorities have been developed based on feedback from a robust, inclusive city-wide community consultation process undertaken to build the Economic Development and Culture Divisional Strategy (2018-22); ongoing discussions with stakeholders and partners in the culture sector; and policy directions from City Council. They also advance the objectives of the Division's Equity Plan, a guiding framework to foster inclusion and equity in all of Economic Development and Culture ( EDC's) activities.

Staff recommended

The General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, recommends that: 1. City Council adopt the following strategic priorities to guide the City's investment in culture over the next five years (2020-2024): a. Culture for all, to increase opportunities for all Torontonians, no matter where they live in the city, to participate in local, relevant cultural activities throughout the year that reflect Toronto's diversity and creativity.

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b. Space for culture, to maintain and create new accessible, sustainable spaces for Toronto's creative sector in a growing city. c. Developing creative talent to strengthen Toronto's cultural workforce, and increase diversity and representation within the sector.

Considered

  • 2019-10-16 · Economic and Community Development Committee · amended

    Decision as filed

    The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that: 1. City Council adopt the following strategic priorities to guide the City's investment in culture over the next five years (2020-2024): a. Culture for all, to increase opportunities for all Torontonians, no matter where they live in the city, to participate in local, relevant cultural activities throughout the year that reflect Toronto's diversity and creativity.

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    b. Space for culture, to maintain and create new accessible, sustainable spaces for Toronto's creative sector in a growing city. c. Developing creative talent to strengthen Toronto's cultural workforce, and increase diversity and representation within the sector. 2. City Council request the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, in collaboration with Corporate Finance staff, to present to the November 8, 2019 meeting of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee on recommendation 1b, with respect to maintaining and creating new accessible, sustainable spaces for Toronto's creative sector in a growing city.

  • 2019-10-29 · Toronto City Council · adopted

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