Arts and Culture

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CONSULTATION CONCLUDED.

The Arts and Culture Strategy is one of Council's key informing strategies. The Informing Strategies are based on research and provide an important link between the vision and high level outcomes of the City Plan and the specific actions that will deliver these outcomes. You can read the final strategy here

Community Consultation:

Randwick City has a unique cultural identity. Our mix of iconic locations, history and heritage offer an opportunity to celebrate arts and culture in different ways.

The Draft Arts and Culture Strategy is Council’s plan to support and grow the diversity of arts and cultural activities within Randwick City.

This strategy is a 10-year plan to help deliver Council’s longer term vision contained in our City Plan (Community Strategic Plan) through specific objectives and strategic approaches. The specific approaches will be delivered as part of Council’s delivery program and annual operational plans and budgets.

Overall, our objectives are to establish a strong cultural identity for Randwick City, increase the number of places people can participate in art and culture, and increase attendance at Council arts and cultural programmes. 

Specifically, we have set ourselves more than 20 strategic approaches to achieve our objectives. Some of these approaches include:

  • Increasing the number of programs and activities with a focus on First Nations content, outdoor performances and festival programming.
  • Updating and implementing the Public Art Program.
  • Creating a Cultural Arts Precinct around the Randwick Junction Town Centre.
  • Identifying new venues and open space areas for people to participate in the creative arts.
  • Increasing use of Council venues for the creative arts.
  • Expanding and distributing Council events across all suburbs, including smaller local events.

Read the strategy

Join our webinar

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Watch our webinar to learn more about what arts and culture means to Randwick City and how Council is working to support local artists and our plans to create more engaging and meaningful events. Join Katie Anderson (Manager Economic Development and Placemaking), Roxanne Fea (Head La Perouse Museum), Dennis Golding (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist) and Dr Michael Cohen (Director City People).


Make a submission
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE STRATEGY


HOW WAS THE STRATEGY DEVELOPED?

In 2019, Council conducted a community consultation as part of a study into arts and culture in Randwick City. The consultation sought to find out what arts and culture in Randwick City means to our community, and helped develop the Arts and Culture Study. You can read more about the community consultation here and the Arts and Culture Study here.

CONSULTATION PERIOD: 1 TO 28 JUNE 2021.

The Arts and Culture Strategy is one of Council's key informing strategies. The Informing Strategies are based on research and provide an important link between the vision and high level outcomes of the City Plan and the specific actions that will deliver these outcomes. You can read the final strategy here

Community Consultation:

Randwick City has a unique cultural identity. Our mix of iconic locations, history and heritage offer an opportunity to celebrate arts and culture in different ways.

The Draft Arts and Culture Strategy is Council’s plan to support and grow the diversity of arts and cultural activities within Randwick City.

This strategy is a 10-year plan to help deliver Council’s longer term vision contained in our City Plan (Community Strategic Plan) through specific objectives and strategic approaches. The specific approaches will be delivered as part of Council’s delivery program and annual operational plans and budgets.

Overall, our objectives are to establish a strong cultural identity for Randwick City, increase the number of places people can participate in art and culture, and increase attendance at Council arts and cultural programmes. 

Specifically, we have set ourselves more than 20 strategic approaches to achieve our objectives. Some of these approaches include:

  • Increasing the number of programs and activities with a focus on First Nations content, outdoor performances and festival programming.
  • Updating and implementing the Public Art Program.
  • Creating a Cultural Arts Precinct around the Randwick Junction Town Centre.
  • Identifying new venues and open space areas for people to participate in the creative arts.
  • Increasing use of Council venues for the creative arts.
  • Expanding and distributing Council events across all suburbs, including smaller local events.

Read the strategy

Join our webinar

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Watch our webinar to learn more about what arts and culture means to Randwick City and how Council is working to support local artists and our plans to create more engaging and meaningful events. Join Katie Anderson (Manager Economic Development and Placemaking), Roxanne Fea (Head La Perouse Museum), Dennis Golding (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist) and Dr Michael Cohen (Director City People).


Make a submission
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE STRATEGY


HOW WAS THE STRATEGY DEVELOPED?

In 2019, Council conducted a community consultation as part of a study into arts and culture in Randwick City. The consultation sought to find out what arts and culture in Randwick City means to our community, and helped develop the Arts and Culture Study. You can read more about the community consultation here and the Arts and Culture Study here.

CONSULTATION PERIOD: 1 TO 28 JUNE 2021.

CONSULTATION CONCLUDED.

  • Arts and Culture Study

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    In September and October 2019, we consulted with the community to find out how we can better support the arts, and what you think about Randwick City Council’s current approach to arts and culture, and how this could be improved.

    Community feedback was used to help develop the Arts and Culture Study. Read the Arts and Culture Study here.

    The community consultation included a survey to find out what arts and culture in Randwick City means to our community.

    More than 370 people completed the survey and provided the following insights:

    • Overall support for more arts and cultural activities across the city, especially public art, music, dance and theatre performances/concerts
    • Support for creating more spaces for art and culture practice, including performance venues, museums and galleries, and studios
    • Council’s small and large scale community events are considered to be vibrant and diverse
    • Public art is neither dynamic nor diverse, and we lack a good range of museums and galleries.

    Overall, most respondents believe that arts and cultural activities are very important in Randwick City, but Randwick Council does not do enough to support this industry in our community.

    The Arts and Culture study highlighted that 2.6% of Randwick City's population is employed in the arts and recreation services category (higher than the Greater Sydney average of 1.7%), but most travel outside of Randwick City to work - which represents a loss of cultural capital.

    Council owns a number of properties that present opportunities to create cultural precincts. These include:

    • The Newmarket Stable building in Randwick
    • Historic Blenheim House in Randwick
    • Randwick Literary Institute

    You can read more about the community consultation and findings from the study in the Arts and Culture Study.