Thank you to everyone who came to the cultural planning information session to learn more about the 'draft' Cultural Plan: Creative Spirit North Vancouver. The meeting handout is available for download. Comments, concerns and suggestions are welcome.
The Arts Office invites the public, the arts and cultural community and creative industries to an Info~Input session on Thursday February 28, 2013, 4-6pm to learn more and provide input on the draft Cultural Plan. 'Cultural Plan: Creative Spirit North Vancouver' is the working title for a new Cultural Plan that will inform and guide the delivery of arts and cultural services for North Vancouver over the next 10+ years.
The development of a new Cultural Plan for North Vancouver is well underway. Over the past six months, the Arts Office in conjunction with cultural planning consultants has been involved in series of dynamic community consultations, the input from which is being incorporated into a new Cultural Plan that will guide the ongoing development of arts and culture in the City and District of North Vancouver.
Open Houses will be held in the District and in the City of North Vancouver to gather feedback from residents that will inform a new North Vancouver Cultural Plan.
Thursday May 3, 2021 - Lynn Valley Main Library, District of North Vancouver
Tuesday May 8, 2021 - John Braithwaite Centre, City of North Vancouver
A key component of the process will be a World Café at Presentation House Arts Centre on April 12, 2012. A facilitated, half-day workshop, the World Café is designed to stimulate ideas and encourage collaborative discussions regarding aspirations, opportunities and challenges for the arts and culture in North Vancouver.
World Café - Thursday April 12, 1:00-4:30pm, Presentation House Arts Centre. This interaction of a broad spectrum of community, arts, and cultural interests and expertise will help to refine objectives and priorities for the Cultural Plan.
January 2012 - The development of a new Cultural Plan for North Vancouver is now underway. The North Vancouver Cultural Plan, 2012-2025 will be a guiding document that will renew, refresh and re-envision plans for the ongoing development of arts and culture in the City and District of North Vancouver.
October 2010 - The Lower Lonsdale Cultural Facilities Study is a comprehensive planning study to relocate three of the community's most important arts, heritage and cultural facilities in North Vancouver.
In 2002 following an extended planning and consultation process, the City and District adopted the North Vancouver Cultural Plan.
In 1988 Councils for the City and District of North Vancouver, together with the District of West Vancouver, adopted the first Cultural Plan for the North Shore.