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Integrating the Cultural Master Plan into your ongoing planning process and budget decisions will have long-term implications for your community.
A fully developed cultural sector makes your community more attractive to investors; helps build community pride, retain youth, and build partnerships.
In Canada and around the world, communities are recognizing the value of their culture, and making it part of their everyday activities. They see their cultural resources as a vital part of their identity and, in an increasingly competitive world, their prosperity. Cultural planning is a proven way of capitalizing on their cultural assets.
Worth noting: Provincial, National and International regulations, policies and best practices encourage communities to make cultural planning an integral part of their future.
Cultural planning:
- Identifies opportunities
- Identifies cultural roles for ethnic, aboriginal and youth stakeholders
- Identifies and incubates prospective partnerships and funding sources, promotion and cultural tourism
- Increases chances to access funding such as grants and sponsorships
- Engages municipal and national managers, workers and politicians
- Engages cultural workers (artists, heritage experts, cultural industry leaders)
- Provides guidance for budget requirements
- Provides insight into political ramifications
- Provides strategic policy direction and development
- Provides guidelines and strategies which integrate cultural planning into the community’s day-to-day operations and decision-making processes
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