New Arts Strategy Launch 2 February At Park Hotel 4.00pm
1st February 2006
If you have an interest in the arts in Caithness you might like to go along to hear about he Arts Strategy to be launched at the Orrange Room, Park Hotel Thurso at 4.00pm on Thursday 2 February. Professor Ian Brown was commissioned by Caithness Arts to put together ideas and a plan with recommendations to carrry it forward.
The strategy will be available in print but you can see it now at
http://www.caithness.org/community/arts/artsactionplan.doc
The basic ideas are expressed in the Vison section of the report -
Vision for Caithness Arts
This vision is intended both for the organisation, Caithness Arts, and for the arts in Caithness in general, both its practitioners and those who enjoy them.
Caithness Arts
� expresses our unique community,
� fulfils cultural and socio-economic needs,
� seeks to achieve excellence, progress, and healthy co-operation,
� thinks internationally,
� celebrates variety,
� enriches all.
Key recommendations
The following are the key recommendations:
1.
The Caithness Arts should implement the action plan contained in this report and act as lead organisation for the report's recommended actions.
2.
That, in order to fulfil this role, priority be given to the establishment of the development post identified.
3.
That, while there will be a wide range of arts activity by member organisations and others that Caithness Arts may wish to support morally, Caithness Arts itself must focus its activities by setting tasks within its own order of priority.
4.
That, in following recommendation 3, Caithness Arts recognise that specific artform activities, for example with the National Theatre of Scotland, are best carried out by specific artform companies and that Caithness Arts' strength lies in its capacity to work across artforms.
5.
That Caithness Arts initiate communication at once with key partners such as CASE, Highland Council and RSAMD to carry forward relevant aspects of the plan.
6.
That, in developing links with such partner organisations, Caithness Arts retain the lead for those projects of which it has ownership.
7.
That Caithness Arts recognise and fulfil its role as expert adviser in projects led by other organisations, as in for example the proposed development of venues in Thurso and Wick.
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