Cultural Plan 2013-2016 final.pdf - Coffs Harbour City Council ...

As adopted by Council on 28 February 2013
As with most apparently technical projects, biggest challenges will relate to the engagement
of the current information providers and a clear and shared concept of the service to be
offered. Commitment to the outcome, clarity of business rules and excellent project
management will be required.
7.1.6 Single source – participatory activities
As well as events, there are some activities such as short courses, series of lessons or
workshops, or regular meetings of hobby or reading groups, which are important especially
for new residents to be able to find. This would currently be very difficult. As one community
member put it: “If you don’t know it exists, you don’t know it exists and you don’t go looking
for it”. An example of this would be the social artists’ sessions at the Regional Art Gallery
every Friday. Once the single event source is established and working well, a comparable
facility would support these activities.
Strategy Council Role Comments/examples
3. Excellent online access to
information about:
cultural and commercial
events
courses and groups
4. Timely hard copy information
to new residents (both local
and regional) about cultural
activities and facilities -
including map, calendar of
annual events, sources of
information about groups and
activities.
Provider
Provider,
facilitator
Use Discover Coffs Coast as a base to
consolidate a single source of commercial
and non-commercial event information for
Coffs Harbour (and immediate environs),
working with commercial media providers.
Use Community Connect to focus on
information which is mainly for residents e.g.
groups, regular programs, classes.
Invite other providers of events calendars to
link to these sources on a reciprocal basis.
Link to these resources from all Council
cultural facility websites and include link
details in all cultural facility hard copy
promotional materials.
Regular assessment and reporting of
completeness of listings and usage of the
site(s) is necessary.
Note: work has commenced on this strategy.
Expand and promote existing new residents
packs to estate agents, public housing etc
and on website
Also available on the website and in an easy
print format.
Note: Considerable material already exists in
disparate places, both produced by Council
and other organizations.
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