Strategic priorities

Each year the Australia Council develops a set of Strategic Priorities to ensure our efforts are focused on areas identified by the sector as critical to capacity building. These priorities are informed by the artform sector plans, the leadership team, our artform boards and committees and our research.

The Australia Council’s four over-arching Strategic Priorities for 2011-12 are:

Cultural Leadership

In 2010/11 the Australia council conducted research to identify the characteristics of effective cultural leaders. We will work with the sector to identify effective development pathways, including the building blocks for leadership development.

Programs:

  • continuation the Australia Council’s Emerging Leaders Program
  • a national framework for cultural leadership development.

Realising the potential of broadband

The commitment by the Australian Government to a national broadband network (NBN) is promoted as the largest single infrastructure project in our lifetime. It creates potential for all aspects of the arts community, including individual artists, arts organisations and arts administrators. Targeted projects in areas that are connected to the NBN will help the sector seize new opportunities.

Programs:

  • commissioned projects for small arts organisations, including cross platform transmedia and other new practices in targeted NBN connected areas
  • new partnerships between the arts sector and media/technology companies
  • the development of tool-kit and education program to extend the findings from the Australia Council’s online engagement research.

Innovative practice

This initiative will support new forms of artistic expression and presentation platforms, as well as the importance of supporting artists in the research and development of their practice at various stages of their careers.

Programs:

  • investing in a Creative Australia, the Federal Government’s $10 million commitment to assist artists to create new work and increase audience access to diverse creative expressions

Diversified models for support

Support structures come in many forms; financial, mentoring, new models, partnerships and collaborations as well as delivery methods such as touring. By considering diverse operating models, this initiative aims to strengthen the arts sector.

Programs:

  • a project to research, pilot and evaluate new funding models (such as crowdsourcing)
  • the development of a framework for national touring
  • a developmental program for independent producers.
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