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Arts indicators for local government
This paper presents a set of arts indicators for local government, developed particularly for Australia. It includes a brief overview of the emerging international literature around arts and ‘cultural’ indicators, focussing particularly on work that has informed the current project, especially that of Maria Jackson and colleagues from the USA. This framework has been developed primarily to measure the contribution of the arts to the cultural vitality of local communities. It takes as a starting point the values explicated in Hawkes (2001), that cultural vitality is as important a dimension of sustainable communities as the other dimensions of economic viability, social equity and environmental sustainability. The framework has four major categories of indicators; presence of opportunities to participate in the arts, rates of participation, support arts activity and outcomes of arts activity. The first such initiative in Australia, this framework is undergoing extensive discussion and redevelopment throughout 2010.
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