Artistic potential sits primarily in the hands of artists, cultural organisations and the local community. The City of Victor Harbor has prepared a new “Culture Strategy – Arts & Heritage” to help foster this potential.
Council came to URPS seeking help to structure the Culture Strategy in a way that will see it have greatest impact. This was right in the pocket for our policy specialists.
The Strategy is founded on three goals that best utilise Council’s strengths and areas of influence: building capacity, creating and activating places, and increasing participation and engagement.
Central to the Strategy is Council’s desire to celebrate local heritage, culture and environment through the arts. Council also wants to embed an open-minded, collaborative culture that enables things to happen.
The City of Victor Harbor has already been investing in the arts in recent years. Council established the Coral Street Arts Space and employed an Arts and Cultural Facilitator in partnership with Country Arts SA and Yankalilla Council. The Facilitator has been so successful this role is now a standalone position for Victor Harbor supported by Country Arts SA.
Looking to the future, Council has endorsed concepts for an Arts & Culture Centre. This will be the centrepiece of the arts and culture ecosystem in Victor Harbor and is the flagship project of the new Culture Strategy.
Other key initiatives of the new Strategy include residency and workshop programs, arts spaces, grants and celebrating First Nations’ Culture.
The arts have long been strong in Victor Harbor. Council’s new Culture Strategy will make them even stronger.
