Arts Advocacy Toolkit

Creativity Counts is the advocacy campaign of the Alliance for Arts and Culture, developed in response to the severe cuts in British Columbia’s provincial investment in the arts beginning in 2009. The Creativity Counts advocacy toolkit has been developed by the Alliance for Arts and Culture in collaboration with a number of BC arts groups.

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Cultural Mapping Toolkit

A cultural map is an inventory and analysis of a community's cultural resources and corresponding patterns of usage by the public. Mapping helps communities take stock of the existing cultural environment: their strengths, challenges, aspirations and gaps. A cultural mapping project achieves the following:

• Establishes the groundwork for a cultural plan and cultural tourism strategy
• Encourages a consultation process to promote community engagement
• Helps community leaders gain an understanding of the community's interests and concerns

Developed by Creative City Network of Canada with support from 2010 Legacies Now.

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Cultural Planning Toolkit

Cultural planning is a process of community engagement through consultations and decision making that helps local government use information about cultural resources to develop and improve community programs and services.

Cultural Planning supports municipal councils and other local governing bodies, staff and community partners in their efforts to develop and implement their cultural objectives.

Developed by Creative City Network of Canada with support from 2010 Legacies Now.

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Curatorial Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Curators

This toolkit outlines the complex business of organizing exhibitions and related activities. Recommended practices provide curators with a suggested framework from which they may create their own working process.

Developed with support from 2010 Legacies Now.

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Public Art Toolkit

The Public Art Toolkit is intended as a guide when planning a public art program or evaluating an existing one, and contains resources for the management of public art projects.

Developed by Creative City Network of Canada with support from 2010 Legacies Now.

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Community Celebrations Toolkit

A practical guide to creating and producing community celebrations and special events.

Developed by Public Dreams Society with support from 2010 Legacies Now.

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