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HomeMy WebLinkAboutArts & Culture - 2013-09-17 Minutes ARTS AND CULTURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (ACAC) MINUTES SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 CITY OF KITCHENER PRESENT:Helena BallREGRETS:Laura Lee Dam (leave of absence until Mark Derro December 2013) Danielle DeveauCouncillor Kelly Galloway-Sealock Councillor Frank Etherington (leave of absence) Caroline HissaAllan Hoch Earl McCluskieMark Logan Sean PuckettD Morton Radhika Subramanyan STAFF:Silvia DiDonato, Manager, Arts/Culture Shannon Sweeney, Recording Secretary Emily Robson, Coordinator, Arts/Culture Michael Borland, Co-Op student from University of Waterloo GUESTS:Beth Rajnovich, City of Waterloo Shelley Adams, Director, Creative Enterprise Initiative (CEI) CALL TO ORDER:Earl McCluskie, Chair 1.0Acceptance of Agenda Agenda accepted as circulated 2.0Acceptance of June 18and July 16 Meeting Minutes Accepted as circulated DELEGATION AND DISCUSSION 3.0City of Waterloo Culture Plan: Beth Rajnovich Draft 10-year plan completed. Project outcome to include a Culture Plan, and Culture Policy. In the plan, culture is defined in broadest sense possible. www.waterloo.ca/cultureplan All city departments provided input about their role in culture, and will be involved in implementation. Citizens had opportunitiesto provide inputabout strengths/weaknesses of culture in Waterloo. Other municipalities were consulted (including Kitchener). Planning process considered where best to start, where are we currently, and where to we want to be. Plan is focused on: The role the municipality can play inrealizing the community's vision for culture. How cultural resources can help achieve civic goals, including economic development. Building networks and partnerships, rather than facilities (Waterloo council interested in capitalizing on existing resources by finding new ways to use them) Integrated planning for culture across the city and region. Goalsof plan include: Enlivening streets, neighbourhoods, public and green spaces (includes place-making, public 1. art and other art programs, public square) Building community capacity for creativity, expression and cultural engagement (could 2. require additional staff) Engaging the diversity of the community to build a shared sense of belonging (a diversity 3. strategy may be developed’ will work with post-secondary institutions) 1 September 2013-ACAC Minutes ARTS AND CULTURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (ACAC) MINUTES SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 CITY OF KITCHENER Strengthen the community identity by connecting Waterloo’s past and present though 4. education and conservation. Expanding community awareness and appreciation of culture 5. Fostering collaboration in the culture sector to implement the cultureplan 6. Next steps include: Collecting feedback, presenting to Waterloo city council in December, beginning implementation in January. ACAC comments: Waterloo has many students. Unfortunate that students were difficult to representin Waterloo’s research. Asthey don’t ‘live’ in the city, and Statistics Canada doesn’t include them. It would be useful if the same metrics to measure the vitality of each city’s arts/culture sector could be used across the region. Kitchener and Waterloo plans should complement each other. INFORMATION ITEMS 4.0Work Group Updates Strategy: Culture planning in a regional context As suggested by this work group, ajoint meeting of Cambridge, Waterloo and Kitchener’s arts/culture advisory committees will take place on October 24 from 4-6pm. ACTION: Staff to send invitation to ACAC members. Strategy: Economic Impact of the arts As this group is down to one member (Helena Ball), it will join with the culture planning in a regional context group. Strategy: Music working group No update 5.0Public Art Working Group Report: Sean M Puckett A hanging system donated by KPL has been provided to Williamsburg Community Centre as a pilot initiative in the ‘art in community centres’ project Call for Kitchener’s 2014 Artist in Residence is now open. Deadline is October 15. KPL main branch public art project to be installed inSpring 2014 Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, 2012, Artist in Residence has had his commissioned work installed at Breithaupt Community Centre. Susan Coolen, current Artist in Residence has an exhibit in the Berlin Tower ARTSPACE until the end of October. She has delivered many events and has received a lot of media attention. 6.0Downtown Advisory Committee update: D. Morton No update in D. Morton’s absence. 7.0Economic Development Advisory Committee update: Mark Derro No update 8.0Council report The Region and city are considering the urban streetscape as it pertains to the LRT project, particularly at Cedar & Charles, and Weber & Victoria streets. ACTION: staff to investigate Region’s plans for substations. 2 September 2013-ACAC Minutes ARTS AND CULTURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (ACAC) MINUTES SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 CITY OF KITCHENER 9.0Members’ news Homer Watson House and Gallery’s fall exhibit runs to November 17. Includes work by Cathy Farwell, Kathryn Bemroseand Nicole Waddick. http://www.homerwatson.on.ca/ ADJOURNMENT The chair adjourned the formal portion of the meeting at5:17 p.m. NEXT MEETING Date: October 15,4:00 p.m., Conestoga Room Following the formal portion of the meeting, ACAC members broke out into the following subgroups to make progress on the work plan: 1.Music Works 2.Arts/culture strategy development and culture planning in regional context 3 September 2013-ACAC Minutes