Nanaimo Cultural Plan Community Visioning Forum

Nanaimo Cultural Plan Community Visioning Forum
Collaborative Engagement Process
Facilitated by: Nanaimo Design Nerds
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
6 pm – 9:30 pm
Nanaimo Art Gallery

Nanaimo Design Nerds will facilitate this session using a collaborative approach to the participant feedback process which will enhance creativity and participant engagement. We look forward to your creative and innovative ideas that will come out of this session for the new Nanaimo Cultural Plan.

Culture enriches our lives by providing enjoyment and appreciation of all creative endeavors. It supports and encourages all creative people from artists to creative professionals resulting in cultural vitality and economic prosperity.

The Nanaimo Cultural Plan will set community vision and direction for future cultural development.

Cultural planning is vital for realizing the cultural amenities that attract a vibrant creative workforce to live, work, and play in our community. Nanaimo is moving from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy and creativity is becoming one of the most sought after commodities. The City of Nanaimo corporate strategic plan includes “Cultural Vitality” as the 4th pillar of sustainability and recognizes that what were once “amenities” are now “necessities” and that culture, creativity and innovation are an essential part of city building and sustainable municipal planning.

Please join us on January 17th with your ideas on how culture can make Nanaimo healthy vibrant community where people love to live or visit.

“Creativity and innovation are together the overall elements to propel cities to success” The External Advisory Committee on Cities and Communities (The Harcourt Commission)

“The evidence is simply overwhelming – to prosper in the future, Canadian cities must embrace cultural planning as a key and core element of municipal government.” Gord Hume