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Agencies and Networks
UK
Centre for Creative Communities
CLOA (Chief Leisure Officers Association)
LGA (Local Government Association)
Nalgao (National Assoc’n of Local Government Arts Officers)
Examples of local arts councils in the UK:
Ireland
Cavan County Council Arts Office
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Arts Office
Galway City Council - Arts and Culture
Galway County Council - Arts Office
Wicklow County Council Arts Office
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
British Columbia
Arts Council of the Central Okanagen
Central Interior Regional Arts Council
Chilliwack Community Arts Council
Community Arts Council of Creston
Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
Community Arts Council of Kamloops
Community Arts Council of the Alberni-Calyoquote Region
Community Arts Council of the Saanich Peninsula
Comox Valley Community Arts Council
Cranbrook and District Arts Council
Fort St John Community Arts Council
Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Arts Council
Nelson and District Arts Council
Nicola Valley Community Arts Council
North Vancouver Community Arts Council
Oceanside Community Arts Council
Penticon and District Community Arts Council
Queen Charlotte Island Arts Council
Trail and District Community Arts Council
West Kooteney Regional Arts Council
Manitoba
Department of Culture, Heritage and Citizenship
New Brunswick
Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Culture
Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture
Ontario
Department of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation
Prince Edward Island
Department of Education - Division of Culture, Heritage, Recreation and Sport
Quebec
Department of Culture and Communications
Quebec Council for Arts and Literature
Saskatchewan
Department of Culture, Youth and Recreation
Yukon
USA
National
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA)
By State
(you can usually access contact details for local arts councils and associations from the website of the relevant state agency or council as listed below)
Alabama State Council on the Arts
Alaska State Council on the Arts
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture (Northern Mariana Islands)
Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Consortium for Pacific Arts & Cultures: American Samoa, Guam, North Marianas
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
Guam Council on the Arts & Humanities Agency
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Hawaii)
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs
New England Foundation for the Arts
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Institute of Puerto Rican Culture
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
South Carolina Arts Commission
Virgin Islands Council on the Arts
Virginia Commission on the Arts
Washington State Arts Commission
West Virginia Commission on the Arts
Western States Arts Federation
Australia
Australia Council Community Cultural Development Board
New South Wales
Community Cultural Development NSW
Museums and Galleries Foundation NSW
Northern Territory
ANKAAA (Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists)
Queensland
Queensland Community Arts Network (QCAN)
Queensland Arts Council (contains links to over 60 local councils)
South Australia
Community Arts Network SA (CAN SA)
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Community Arts Network Western Australia
New Zealand
Regional
Arts Post (Hamilton)
Arts Promotion Trust (Northland)
Auckland City Alive and Happening Events Listing
Art Base (Christchurch)
Be There Christchurch and Canterbury Events
Mosaic - Manawatu one-stop arts information centre
The Agency (Tauranga)
West Coast Arts: Tai Poutini Arts Project
Local
Alexandra Community Arts Council
Arts Council NelsonArts Heart Central - Selwyn District Council
Arts Promotion Trust (northland)
Auckland East Arts Council Inc
Cambridge Community Arts Council
Carterton Community Arts Council
Christchurch Community Arts Council
Clutha District Community Arts Council
Coromandel Community Arts Council Inc
Creative MarlboroughCreative Napier
Creative New Zealand Kaikoura District
Cromwell Community Arts Council
Dargaville Community Arts Council
Eastern Southland Community Arts Council
Far North Community Arts Council
Geraldine Community Arts Council
Gisborne Community Arts Council
Golden Bay Community Arts Council
Grey District Community Arts Council
Hamilton Community Arts Council
Hurunui Community Arts Council
Hutt Valley Community Arts Inc
Inangahua Community Arts Council
Kaikohe Community Arts Council
Karamea Community Arts Council
Kawerau Community Arts Council
Kerikeri Arts Centre and Community Arts Council
Lyttelton Community Arts Council
Malvern Community Arts Council IncMana Community Arts Council
Manawatu Community Arts Council
Maniototo Community Arts Council
Masterton Community Arts Council
Matamata Community Arts Council
Maungawhau / Mt Eden Arts Council Trust
North Bridge ArtsNorth Hokianga Community Arts Council
North Taranaki Community Arts Council
Palmerston North Community Arts Council
Papakura District Community Arts Council Inc
Pewhairangi-Bay of Islands Community Arts Council
Porirua Community Arts Council
Putaruru Community Arts Council
Rotorua District Community Arts Council
Roxburgh Community Arts Council
Ruapehu Community Arts Council
Conferences
nalgao 2007 Conference
05 - 07 September 2007
The Corn Exchange, Wheeler St, Cambridge CB2 3QB
nalgao's conference has become a key date in the national arts calendar and is an important event for local authorities. Financially supported by Arts Council England, the event is a partnership between nalgao, Cambridgeshire County, Cambridge City, East and South Cambridgeshire District Councils and other local authorities in the region. Further sponsorship has been provided by Arts Professional and EUCLID. This year the conference will focus on the contribution that the arts and creative industries make in building sustainable communities, and will explore issues concerning the new growth areas, many of which are in the government's place making agenda.
Alliance of Artists' Communities
07-10 November 2007
Washington, DC & Silver Spring, MD
From building our base to making our case, Creativity in Context: Building a Framework addresses artists’ communities full circle. The conference offers a range of big-picture discussions, practical tools, inspiring models, best-practices, and opportunities for personal engagement.
Publications
USA
The following publications are available from NASAA (National Association of State Arts Agencies):
A State Arts Agency Strategic Planning Toolkit
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to strategic planning. The toolkit helps cultural organizations respond strategically to a rapidly changing environment, and builds the planning skills of volunteer and professional cultural leaders. It identifies the hallmarks of excellence in planning and gives practical advice about planning's many challenges. Five detailed case studies reveal the results of good planning, as do several examples of innovative planning approaches from other sectors and self-evaluation checklists that any cultural organization can use. The toolkit is the third installment in NASAA's how-to series that includes the Performance Measurement Toolkit and Measuring Your Arts Economy. 2000; 76 pages.
Measuring Your Arts Economy: Twelve Questions and Answers about Economic Impact Studies
A practical guide that answers common questions about economic impact studies. The publication helps arts organizations plan their studies strategically, explains the basic concepts central to economic impact research, and offers advice for choosing good consultants or working partners. Measuring Your Arts Economy also pays special attention to effective communications strategies that arts organizations have used to promote their findings and spread good news about the arts. The document includes diverse perspectives on "best practices" from arts councils, legislators, researchers and advocates. 1997; 23 pages.
State Policy Briefs: States and the Creative Economy
States and the Creative Economy explores the policy rationales for arts and culture as an economic development strategy, outlines the roles state arts agencies can play in creative economy initiatives, and offers important success factors for state leaders.
A State Arts Agency Performance Measurement Toolkit
How can arts agencies demonstrate the impact of their activities? What evidence can they cite to demonstrate effective service delivery to the community, artists and arts organizations? How can public arts agencies respond to increasing government pressure to meet performance standards? This publication is a practical guide to help arts leaders and public agency officials create solutions to these challenging questions. NASAA's Performance Measurement Toolkit provides basic information on measurement fundamentals and outlines a step-by-step approach to developing a performance measurement system. Expert advice and procedural recommendations are offered, as are over 100 sample arts measures in use by state arts agencies. 1996; 61 pages.
Legislative Appropriations Annual Survey
An essential publication for anyone wanting to know about state governments' support of the arts, this report contains data on legislative appropriations to state arts agencies in all 56 states and jurisdictions. Tables and graphics highlight funding trends in an easy-to-understand manner.
State Arts Agency Public Funding Sourcebook
A digital resource for analyzing legislative appropriations over time, this CD-Rom contains a data file itemizing each state arts agency's legislative appropriation from 1969 to the present day. The file contains state-by-state information on state arts agency appropriations including and excluding line items.
Decentralization Strategies in State Arts Agencies-Profile Breakout
Explores decentralization as a grant distribution strategy for state arts agencies.
Going International
This case statement describes the benefits of state arts agency and regional arts organization involvement in international activities, with a particular emphasis on international trade missions. Based on more than 20 interviews, Going International discusses the benefits, rewards and challenges of international cultural exchange. The section on trade missions features advice from leaders in the field with experience in this area. Commissioned and published by NASAA through a cooperative agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts. Written by Morrie Warshawski; 2000; 12 pages.
Australia
The following publications are available from the Australia Council or other Australian agencies – full details on the “local” website)
Artwork
Artwork is the National Critical Journal on community cultural development and community arts in Australia. Produced three times per year, Artwork is distributed by subscription, and also as part of the membership of the leading agencies in other states. It is produced by the National CCD Network as a collaboration between CANSA, QCAN, CANWA and CCDNSW. Each issue is themed, and provides articles which profile and critically examine our practice from theoretical, practical and methodological perspectives. Recent themes have focussed on Local government and Cultural Planning, International perspectives of CCD and Arts Health and Wellbeing. Online Forums have been established on ccd.net to give the opportunity for Artwork readers to take issue with or support perspectives reflected in each edition.
Copyright and Community Arts
A guide to establishing the ownership of creative works produced by artists and communities.
The Great Yarn Event (1998)
Arts stories from Regional Australia.
Creating Social Capital
A study of the long term benefits from Community Based Arts Funding by Deidre Williams.
Available from Community Arts Network SA Inc.
Fourth Pillar of Sustainability
Explores the many different ways that culture affects and relate to patterns of human activities and policy realms. ISBN 1 86335 050
Available from the Cultural Development Network
From Nimbin to Mardi Gras
by Gay Hawkins.
Hawkins combines an analysis of the shifting policy and aesthetic discourses of community arts with a critical evaluation of the program's achievments and limitations.
Available from Community Arts Network SA Inc.
Symposium – They Shoot Ferals Don't They
Edited by Bill Kyle, Margriet Bonnin, Sue Benner
Transcripts of discussion and debate by 30 key ccd practitioners brought together for a day-long symposium about current issues and directions in the ccd sector.
Available on CD-Rom through Feral Arts or via the internet
Risking Art (2000)
National publication that outlines the role of the Arts and highlights the benefits of arts practice in the delivery of welfare services to young marginalised people.
Available from Jesuit Social Services – Connexions.
The Community Music Handbook
by Anne Cahill.
A practical guide to developing music projects and organisations. Currency Press/Music Council of Australia.
Available from The Music Council of Australia.
Outside Broadcasting – A Festivals Handbook
Guide to community radio station details on all issues facing community radio.
Available from Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
Arts Radio
Practical handbook for arts participation in community radio.
Available from Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
Dancers and Communities
edited by Helen Poynor & Jacqueline Simmonds
A collection of writings about dance as a community art.
Available from Australian Dance Council Ausdance (NSW).
Out of the Ordinary
by Annie Bolitho and Mary Hutchinson
Inventive ways of bringing communities, their stories and audiences to light.
Available from Canberra Stories Group.
A Cultural Planning Guide for Local Government
Outlines a step by step approach to cultural planning from consulting with the community and creating a cultural map to developing a cultural policy and plan.
Available from Community Arts Network WA Inc.
Community Cultural Development Training Directory
compiled by Celia Moon.
Comprehensive listings of courses and workshops specifically about community cultural development, cultural diversity and youth work.
Available from Create Australia
New Zealand
Connecting Art, Life and People - Community Cultural Development in Aotearoa/New Zealand
A rich portfolio of ideas, artists and
community cultural development collaborations, which have their roots in the diverse stories of communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
