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The Orpheum Theatre
courtesy of the Vancouver Civic Theatres
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Shakti Dance Society
Vandna Sidner
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Electric Company Theatre. Jonathan Young in
Tim Matheson
In January 2008, Vancouver City Council approved the new Culture Plan, a 10-year strategy aimed at sustaining and further supporting our burgeoning creative sector. The plan’s creation was guided by a task force composed of community members and senior City staff, with critical input from Vancouver’s creative community.
Cultural Legacies
The diversity, depth and breadth of the arts, culture and recreational activity contributes to the essence of the city and quality of life in Vancouver. Quality of life is a key civic asset. Building cultural legacies in sport and recreation, arts, literacy, and volunteerism is part of sustainable Vancouver.
Creative City
Vancouver's municipal government recognizes the importance of the creative sector to citizen health and well-being, to the city's liveability, and to its economic future. A healthy arts and culture community helps the City attract knowledge-based businesses, workers, and tourists—all of which boosts the local and regional economy.
Vancouver City Council supported a three-year creation process towards publishing Vancouver's new Culture Plan with concurrent significant increased support to the arts and culture community. Now that the Culture Plan is adopted, Council has endorsed the implementation of several significant new policies and strategies for the arts and culture sector:
- new policy framework for the City’s Cultural Grants and support programs
- new policy framework for the City’s Public Art programs
- Cultural Infrastructure priority plan
- Cultural Tourism Strategy
The City will continue to engage citizens of Vancouver in further planning processes focused on Economic Partnerships, Awareness and Participation, Neighbourhood Cultural Plans and the Learning City as well as in ongoing Creative City initiatives, such as the Creative City Conversation, in the months and years to come. More info.
2010 Legacies Now
2010 Legacies Now is a not-for-profit society that works in partnership with community organizations, non-government organizations, the private sector and all levels of government to develop sustainable legacies in sport & recreation, arts, literacy, and volunteerism.
2010 Legacies Now actively assists communities in Vancouver to discover and create unique and inclusive social and economic opportunities leading up to, during and beyond the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The program areas are:
- Sport & Recreation Now (including HostingBC)
- Arts Now
- Literacy Now
- Volunteers Now
More info on 2010 Legacies Now
More info on the Social, and physical legacies of the Olympics
Olympic Sustainability
The 2010 Olympics are being planned to have a lasting legacy in our community but not on the environment. Olympic planning includes evaluating environmental impacts, and showcasing the latest in environmental stewardship and innovation to ensure Games construction and events leave the lightest possible footprint. More info.
Find out how the City of Vancouver is helping to promote a more sustainable Olympics.
