Featured reader Chad Lucas at a Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia event.
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Greater Halifax Arts Coalition
2024 Vote Arts HRM Action Plan
1 Become a leader in funding arts and culture activities
2024 Vote Arts HRM Action Plan
1 Become a leader in funding arts and culture activities
- Increase HRM arts and culture program funding until it meets and exceeds the median per capita spending on art and culture of other major Canadian cities, with a goal of consistently ranking in the top 25% for arts and culture funding within the next 4 years.
- Index HRM arts and culture funding to inflation to avoid real value erosion of funding envelopes.
- Structure HRM arts and culture funding programs to ensure equitable and meaningful investments in underrepresented communities and new voices.
- Initiate a new HRM peer-reviewed funding program for grants to professional artist individuals and small groups targeted towards creation, presentation and professional development.
- Initiate a new HRM program to fund artistic residencies promoting artistic research, creation and community engagement within HRM departments (example: Halifax Public Gardens artist-in-residence)
- Address gaps identified in HRM Performing & Visual Arts Venues Study (2024) and Discover Halifax Venues Inventory and Assessment (forthcoming).
- Provide major capital grants to arts and culture organizations building or renovating venues for the production or presentation of arts and culture.
- Provide capital improvement grants to arts and culture organizations who own or rent premises:
- To improve accessibility infrastructure, with the goal of reducing barriers for all arts and culture venues in HRM by 2030 (in line, or exceeding, provincial standards set out in Access by Design 2030).
- To improve washroom facilities to include gender-neutral single-stall washrooms
- To improve indoor ventilation systems to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne infectious particles
- Increase grant funding available to non-profit arts and culture organizations that rent space to offset the steep rise in rental costs.
- Pilot a collaborative delivery model between HRM Parks & Recreation and local professional arts and culture organizations to increase arts and culture program offerings for:
- Children and youth summer and spring break camps
- Lifelong learning (adult and intergenerational participants)
- Before and after school programs for school age children
- Prioritize arts education in schools by ensuring funds continue to be allocated through a Supplementary Education Funding Agreement between HRM and Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) and that such funds stay dedicated to arts education.
- Initiate a program to increase public event venue-use at Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) facilities for arts and culture programming by targeting staffing, funding and maintenance of such venues.
- Implement an initiative to offer free public transit for major arts and cultural events
- Build on successful piloted efforts such as free transit for the first weekend in December, and chartered Halifax Transit buses for Nocturne and Juno Awards events.
- Initiate a funding program for arts and culture organizations to improve financial accessibility of arts and culture experiences, targeted at reducing or eliminating admission fees for arts and culture events, programs, and activities.
- Implement an initiative targeted at retaining and growing the creative and artistic workforce in HRM by developing affordable housing and live/work spaces for artists
- Create a cross-sector and cross organizational housing task force of artists, arts organizations, planners, and developers to outline a plan to define needs and propose viable economic models.
