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Introduction Continued Arts Queensland’s role is to facilitate strategic investment in arts and cultural activity through building partnerships across all levels of Government, and with the private, education and community sectors. The Queensland Government’s investment in people, communities, places, collections and traditions, and creative enterprise will be guided by the following key strategies: • enhance lifelong learning and education through artistic and cultural activity; • foster leadership and professional excellence in the arts; • foster community capacity and renewal through cultural development; • promote cultural tourism; • enhance public places, cultural infrastructure and services; • increase employment and training opportunities in the cultural and creative industries; • promote research and development, and adoption of new technologies in the cultural industries; • enhance export and business development opportunities; and • foster growth in the creative industries. Achievement of Government priorities and outcomes through investment in arts and cultural development will require a whole-of- Government approach. Arts Queensland will play a leadership role across Government and will develop an implementation plan that specifies: • the outcomes to be achieved and relevant indicators to monitor progress towards achievement of these outcomes; • a suite of integrated services and products to be delivered by agencies across Government; and • output performance measures that will monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of these services and products in delivering specified Government outcomes. Without artists and cultural activity, the Creative Queensland vision cannot be achieved. At Cooloolah Lisa O’Neill in Ghosting by Jill Barker, Adam Donovan, John Rodgers, Jeff Erbacher, Jay Younger Curator, Cox Rayner Architects and Project Services. Photo Mark Bergin. EXCERPT Creative Queensland builds on substantial achievements in the arts and cultural industries and recognises that changing demographics and social trends, diversity, globalisation, employment, technology and new economies present challenges and opportunities that can be addressed through an investment in the arts and the cultural and creative industries. The blue crane fishing in Cooloolah’s twilight has fished there longer than our centuries. He is the certain heir of lake and evening, and he will wear their colour till he dies; but I’m a stranger, come from a conquering people. I cannot share his calm, who watch his lake, being unloved by all my eyes delight in and made uneasy, for an old murder’s sake. Judith Wright MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY 1865 Musician and hotelier George Mason draws 400 people to the opening night of his Concert Hall in Brisbane. Later the venue was named Victoria Theatre or Victoria Concert Hall and after renovations in 1874 was known as the Queensland Theatre. 1866 Oxford Music Hall, later known as the Royal Alexandra Theatre and the Bijou Theatre, opens in Edward Street between Elizabeth and Charlotte Streets. 1863-1904 Forced migration of South Sea Islanders to work on Queensland’s sugar plantations from eight Pacific islands, primarily Vanuatu and the Solomons. 1867 Gold discovered in Gympie, later Charters Towers and Mt Morgan. Queensland’s population quadrupled in a decade. 4 Creative Queensland Queensland Government Cultural Policy 2002 1871 Wandering photographer William Boag produces images of Moreton Bay region in his horsedrawn 20261 dark room. 1872 Musical Union established. It was the first organisation dedicated to development of musical culture in the settlement. ▼ 1874 The Queensland Herbarium established (originally part of the Queensland Museum). 1876 Exhibition Building opens providing Brisbane’s first large concert hall and occasional skating rink. Burns down in a spectacular blaze to be replaced in 1891. 1879 Public Library built (F.D.G.Stanley architect). 1881 The first Albert Hall opens in Adelaide Street, between Albert and Edward Streets. Later known as the Academy of Music and the Gaiety Theatre, it operated until the end of the century. 1881 Brisbane’s Theatre Royal in Elizabeth St opens, designed by Andrea Stumbuco. 1884 Brisbane Technical School for training of visual artists opens.
Introduction Continued A companion document, Creative Government, reflects the diverse range of arts and cultural activities being undertaken across the Queensland Government and provides the building blocks for new partnerships that will be fundamental to delivering the strategies in the Cultural Policy. To ensure that partnerships, research and consultation result in high quality and consistent outcomes, Arts Queensland will develop a partnership and engagement charter based on the principles set out in the Government’s Community Engagement Directions Statement - inclusiveness, reaching out, mutual respect, integrity and affirming diversity. A Cultural Export Policy to take Queensland’s arts and cultural products to the world Key investments in the areas of Indigenous Arts and Culture, Children and Young People, Regional Communities, Jobs and Training, and Creative Enterprise are profiled in the snapshots that accompany Creative Queensland. Creative Queensland contains a range of key initiatives which underpin the Government’s commitment to investing in arts and cultural activity. These will be built on during the life of the Cultural Policy. Key initiatives include: • An annual Creative Fellowship to recognise leading Queensland artists; • A small business start-up program, including skills development, to assist new businesses in the cultural sector; • A poetry and short story competition in Queensland schools to raise the profile of writing; • A Cultural Export Policy to take Queensland’s arts and cultural products to the world; • The establishment of the position of Government Curator to manage artwork collections across Government; • A major research project to identify the social and educational impact of arts activity on children in the middle school years; • An Indigenous cultural network to link a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural activity and new facilities in Brisbane; and Gordon Bennett, Explorer II, 1991, oil and acrylic on canvas. Photo courtesy of the artist and Artbank. Artist represented by Bellas Gallery, Brisbane. • An Indigenous Youth Arts Foundation to assist Indigenous high school students to develop career paths as professional artists. 1887 Discovery of artesian water gradually transforms the resources of the west and brings prosperity to the whole State. A building boom resulted, and the 1880s and 1890s saw the building of the Public Library, The Supreme Court, The Opera House (Her Majesty’s), Customs House, National Bank, Treasury Buildings, Exhibition Building and Concert Hall. 1887 Queensland Art Society founded through the activities of artists, Isaac Walter Jenner, Oscar Fristrom and L.W.K.Wirth. 1888 Her Imperial Majesty’s Opera House opens in Queen Street, Brisbane, designed 16875 by Andrea Stumbuco. ▼ 1888-1905 English anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon collects more than 1,000 artefacts from the Torres Strait for the Cambridge University Collection. 2002 sees the collection return temporarily to Australia at the Cairns Regional Gallery’s exhibition Past Time. 1889 Customs House in Brisbane built. 1891 Exhibition Building and Concert Hall built in Brisbane (J.M.Addison, architect). 1891 Great Shearer’s Strike occurs prompting workers to raise the Eureka flag. Armed troops were sent in by the government to quell the 100069 ▼ ▼ uprising. After the burning of Dagworth Station, Banjo Patterson put 117228 ▼ pen to paper to write the stirring words of Waltzing Matilda. First performed in Winton in 1895. Creative Queensland Queensland Government Cultural Policy 2002 5
Page 1 and 2: The Queensland Government Cultural
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