The Topic of the next Cross Party Group on Culture will be 'City Deals: Cultural Cities & Local Resilience.'. We have interesting speakers to share ideas and experiences from being involved in City Deals. 

Agenda

5.30pm Announcements from CPG 11th Dec Cultural Freelancers 
5.40pm Introduction to discussion and panellists
5.45pm Short-Film from Arts and Business Scotland 
5.55pm Panellist Anna Young - Glasgow Canal Project 
6.05pm Panellist Julie Farr – Dundee Social Enterprise Network 
6.15pm Panellist Dame Seona Reid – Cultural Cities Inquiry. 
6.30pm Skye Eco-Museum Short-Film 
6.40pm Open discussion, including group members 
7.30pm Confirm Group Actions (if any) 
7.40pm Date of Next Meeting 1st Oct 2019 (incorporating the AGM) 
7.45pm Close

Membership

Members of the Cross Party Group receive notification of events by email. You can see the current membership on the Scottish Parliament website. If you would like to join, please contact Andy andy@culturecounts.scot. Membership is open to all.

Culture Counts members meet twice a year at Core Members Meetings. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 27 February 2019 at The Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. This event is invite only, for Core Members of Culture Counts. If you can't attend, but know a colleague who would like to come along, please email Andy andy@culturecounts.scot

Agenda

10:30AM - Scottish Government Climate Adaptation Plan.

11:00AM - Visa Policy: Collaborative Build Policy Workshop: Help design the Visa system that our sector needs.

13:30PM - Norway: Morten Jgelten Director of the Association of Norwegian Orchestras and Theatres shares information. How to work with the EU as a non-member state?

2:45PM - Facilitated collaborative policy experiment. The Active Scotland Framework; could this work for Culture alongside the National Performance Framework? 

The Cross Party Group on Culture, hosted by Joan McAlpine MSP, invites you to the next group meeting.

Policy Design - Culture Strategy

Agenda

Facilitated collaborative policy build event to produce a response from the sector to the Culture Strategy for Scotland:

• Theme 1: Measuring Impact: ideal outcomes and practical realities

• Theme 2: One Step Beyond: culture strategy into action plan

• Theme 3: To Tsar or not to Tsar?

Report (Appendix 1)

The outcomes from the event have been pulled together in our Report - Culture Counts Response to the Draft For Consultation. Read an overview here or download the full PDF Report.

Policy Sharing

Core Members of Culture Counts met on Wednesday 23 May 2018 to discuss and share policy.

Agenda

• Data Visualisation: How to use data to tell a story, BBC Data Journalist Jonathan Stoneman

• Improving Equality & Diversity: How to implement effective change in your organisation to improve equality and diversity within the Cultural Sector with Amanda Huxtable, Hull Truck Theatre

• Parliamentary Inquiries: How to write a Parliamentary Inquiry that a clerk can use with Sigrid Robinson, Scottish Parliament