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Creative Enterprise Underpinning the principle of Creative Enterprise is the understanding that developing innovative cultural products and services leads to job creation and greater economic independence. The cultural sector comprises many small businesses, some in receipt of public subsidy, which face common pressures of increased competition, reduced investment by the private sector, the need to embrace new technology, and the difficulty of balancing research and development against economic outcomes. New economies are increasingly based on services and intellectual property rather than manufacturing and capital assets. Investing in ideas and innovation, the foundation of the cultural industries and the Smart State, will boost the capacity for Queensland enterprises to prosper. Communication and information technologies represent a key opportunity for cultural enterprises to embrace new markets, develop new products, reach new audiences and enhance service delivery. In 1998-99 exports of cultural goods across the country totalled $964 million 10 . The export of cultural product also offers significant opportunities for cultural businesses and the Queensland economy. Creative industries which focus on enterprises with strong potential for wealth and job creation are at the heart of the Smart State and represent an important priority for Government. The Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove being developed by the Queensland University of Technology in partnership with the Queensland Government through the Department of State Development. Photo courtesy of Hassel/MGT. Alongside investment in projects such as the new Creative Industries Precinct at Kelvin Grove, the Government is preparing Queensland’s first Creative Industries Strategy led by the Department of State Development. This strategy will foster greater enterprise in the State’s cultural industries and help deliver the economic goals of the Cultural Policy. The key strategies for Government in promoting creative enterprise are to: increase employment and training opportunities in the cultural and creative industries; promote research and development; enhance export development opportunities; enhance business development; and foster growth in the creative industries. Jobs and Training Many new jobs and businesses are fuelled by the power of creativity and intellectual property. Greater connection is needed between artists, industry and jobs. To do this, Government will ensure that individuals have the necessary skills and qualifications to realise their vocational potential. The Government’s Breaking the Unemployment Cycle and Skilling Queensland initiatives will help provide new job opportunities and training in the arts and cultural sector. A partnership between Arts Queensland and the Department of Employment and Training, The Smart State – Investing in Cultural Enterprises, is developing new training initiatives and job opportunities for artsworkers. To increase employment and training opportunities in the cultural and creative industries, the Government will develop initiatives including: • Continue to provide flexible, responsive, accessible and relevant training and professional development programs: – expansion of industry-based accredited training, assessment and recognition of current competencies; 10 Australian Bureau of Statistics - Cultures and Leisure Framework 1998-99 MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY 1991 Refurbishment of the Thomas Dixon Building in West End for the Queensland Ballet and the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra. 1991 Queensland: A State for the Arts released by Queensland Government. Transforms cultural industries in Queensland. Funding for individual artists was introduced and the Regional Arts Development Fund was established. 1992 Queensland Heritage Act passed in Parliament. 1992 Andrew McGahan’s novel Praise published to critical acclaim. 1992 Brisbane-born Barry Otto wins Australia Film Critics Award for best supporting actor in Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom. 1992 Arts Training Queensland established. 1992 Glenn Murcutt awarded 20 Creative Queensland Queensland Government Cultural Policy 2002 the elite Aalto medal, becoming one of only eight architects in the world to hold the honour. 1992 Brisbane International Film Festival introduced. 1992 Joe Furlonger wins the inaugural Moet and Chandon prize - one of five Queenslanders to win the award throughout the 1990s. Other Queenslanders to win were Gordon Bennett, Judy Watson, Hollie and Jude Kentish. 1992 Out of the Box festival of early childhood established. 1992 The Lab established in Townsville. 1993 Central Queensland University Press established focussing on publication of regional and rural writing. ▼ 1993 Curator, photographer and writer Michael Aird opens Portrait of Our Elders at the Queensland Museum. 5. 1993 The famous ‘Mabo’ judgement handed down by the High Court of Australia; overturns the notion of ‘terra nullius’ and recognises ‘native title’. 5. Photo courtesy Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Creative Enterprise Continued – business, marketing and project management skills for established artists with a particular emphasis on export, public art projects and major cultural and sporting events. – training for volunteers in galleries, museums, sporting and cultural events and community radio. – training for established artists which assists them to contribute to and promote festivals and events. – programs designed to provide skills in the area of technology in creative arts, animation, digital arts and film and video production. • Increase transitional support programs for young people to assist them to move from study to work, for example, mentoring, industry induction and management skills training. • Provide funding to support professional development of artists through seminars, workshops, conferences and exchanges. • Generate professional job opportunities for Queensland artists through the Art Built-in public art program. Project Officer and Community Trainee Coordinator Trish Johnson (left) with trainees Krystle Sutherland and Tony Albert at the Queensland Art Gallery. Photo courtesy of the Department of Employment and Training. Photo Mike Curtain. • Explore the development of new partnerships between artists and the private and community sectors to enhance employment outcomes. • Increase job opportunities for artists and artsworkers by supporting online information packages on training, education and employment in the arts, cultural and creative industries. • Establish a community training centre in the redeveloped State Library of Queensland to provide Internet and information literacy training to groups including unemployed people, business people, seniors and Indigenous people. • Implement online training programs and outreach training services through the redeveloped State Library to provide access to regional, rural and remote communities. • Deliver training which links regional arts development to the promotion of Indigenous cultural product and supports Indigenous heritage tourism planning and development. • Deliver a skills development program in partnership with the Australia Council to regional Queensland to assist arts and cultural workers and organisations in promoting their product to the broader community through the media. Research and Development In the Smart State, investment in research and development is fundamental. It identifies what collections to keep and how best to keep them; discovers the scientific and economic potential of collections and traditions; builds culturally exciting places that attract citizens and tourists; and builds innovation and creativity which benefits the broader creative industries. Public art at the Queensland Theatre Company’s new premises: detail of Julie Romaniuk’s Light the fuse - from fingertip through sternum to fingertip, 2002. Photo Three Pines Studio. 1993 First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery. 1993 Incorporation of Kooemba Jdarra – Queensland’s first Indigenous theatre company. 1993 Kickarts Collective Inc incorporated. ▼ 1993 Museums Australia (Queensland) established. 1993 Queensland Office of Arts and Cultural Development (Arts Queensland) established. 1993 Sharing Lines: A collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s writing edited by Jackie Huggins (Black Day Dawning) is published. 1993-94 Queensland Cultural Industry: An Economic Profile was produced. 1994 Arts Regional Touring Service (ARTS) introduced by the Government. 1994 Coalition for Cultural Diversity in the Arts established. 1994 Creative Nation, the landmark federal cultural policy is released. 1994 Fringe Art Collective Inc established (till 2001) to assist the development of young and emerging poets in Queensland. 1994 David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon wins world’s richest literary prize, IMPAC Dublin Award. 1994 First Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander position established at QCAN. 1994 QMusic established. 1994 Repatriation of Palm Island Aboriginal Tambo from Cleveland Ohio and ceremonial burial 100 years after his death in 1884. 1995 Arts Nexus established to assist arts and cultural development in Far North Queensland. 1995 BizArts program was launched for commissioning and prototyping of Queensland designed furniture. 1995 Cairns Regional Art Gallery established. Creative Queensland Queensland Government Cultural Policy 2002 21
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Page 29 and 30: Glossary Continued Edward Koumans,
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