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Mayor David N. Cicilline launched Creative Providence: A cultural plan for the creative sector to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the capital city's creative community. Creative Providence will better position the city to realize its full potential as a creative center and deliver on its promise of innovation and change. It will become a guide to public policy, private initiative, and investments for the citizens of the city.
Creative Providence cultural plan will:
- Be the result of a broadly inclusive, city-wide process;
- Attempt to integrate arts, culture, and creativity into all aspects of city life by making specific, realistic recommendations for action;
- Aim to stimulate economic development, strengthen the creative economy, education, and civic engagement, and, enhance the quality of life in the City of Providence;
- Serve as a catalyst for metro and statewide conversations about the evolution of arts, culture, and creativity in Providence;
- Recognize artists, arts administrators, and cultural institutions as leaders already shaping the 21st century environment; and,
- Provide emerging arts leaders and experienced professionals a collaborative platform to explore innovative and creative strategies for enriching arts, culture, and creativity in the capital city.
Providence's cultural planning process and the creation of the plan will be a collaborative effort led by two consulting firms: Dreeszen & Associates, a nationally recognized cultural planning firm, and New Commons, a Providence-based think tank. These consultants will steer the process but it will take significant community participation to produce a locally responsive cultural plan and build a sustainable creative community.
Our Timeline
The planning process officially began this September but it is the outgrowth of meetings, focus groups, and conversations the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism started with the community in October 2007 and Providence Tomorrow's Neighborhood Charrette process.
Starting this fall, you can share your thoughts and help direct the conversation by participating online, at community forums, in the community-wide survey (please click here to complete the survey), and in focus groups. At the next forum, on Tuesday, November 18 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm , community members will help articulate and prioritize the plan’s most vital initiatives.
The Department of Art, Culture + Tourism will host a two-day arts and culture summit on March 3 and 4, 2009.
The Creative Providence plan will be produced in June 2009.
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