Cambridge Arts & CulturalLeaders

InspiringCambridge

Our Ambitions“A shared vision for the arts and culture to be central to the city’s future”

The Cambridge Arts and Cultural Leaders group seeks to develop the arts and culture in the city by taking a strategic and long term approach to its development, for the benefit of the people that live and work in Cambridge, its growing population and those that visit. The group is new and is currently taking each priority area in turn to consider the opportunities and challenges. We are interested in building connections with key groups and individuals in the city that will help inform our understanding of these issues and shape how they can be addressed collectively.

Exploiting our rich cultural assets to develop a world leading cultural education offer in the broadest sense for people of all ages, developing potential and creating opportunities.The arts and cultural activity offer people the opportunity to imagine and reflect on theirown futures. As well as making a substantial contribution to formal education it offers continuous learning opportunities and space for mental refreshment. Cambridge’s excellent arts and cultural sector presents opportunities to see things anew, chances to experience something different and alternative ways to engage in important conversations.

Cambridge is a city of arts and culture: renowned for its remarkable architectural heritage,its museums, music, theatre, visual arts and literature. With two universities, a year round calendar of festivals and plenty of parks and green spaces there are a wealth of things to do and see.Cambridge’s arts and cultural sector is wide and varied. The arts and culture don’t just happen in cultural venues, but are

found in people’s homes, on our streets, in schools, community centres, hospitals, and of course increasingly online and on the move.Cambridge is a crucible of excellence and expertise. It is the home of world changing ideas, knowledge, innovation and creativity. These factors have combined to make Cambridge the thriving place that it is today.

What Cambridge Can Offer

Connecting the whole community through arts and cultural activity across areas and sectors, the arts and culture bring people together and facilitate the exchange of ideas.The arts and cultural sector can facilitate the connections needed to create a genuinely collaborative and curious city.

When people get involved in things they feel passionate about, like the arts and culture, they can shape and contribute to what adds value and meaning to their lives. Be it music, computer games, the natural and historic environment, the visual arts or museum collections that inspire creativity across the arts and scienc-es, culture is critical to our economic prosperity, our collective quality of life and our individual personal well being.

Cambridge Arts & Cultrual Leaders

Exploiting our rich cultural assets to develop a world leading cultural education offer in the broadest sense for people of all ages, developingpotential and creating opportunities.The arts and cultural activity offer people the opportunity to imagine and reflect on their own futures. As well as making a substantialcontribution to formal education it offers continuous learning opportunities and space formental refreshment. Cambridge’s excellent arts and cultural sector presents opportunities to seethings anew, chances to experience something different and alternative ways to engage in important conversations.

We have identified the followingkey ambitions :

• connecting the whole community through arts and cultural activity

• exploiting our rich cultural assets to develop a world leading cultural education offer

• contributing to sustainable growth in the city

• developing a creative welcome,making the city’s excellent cultural offer more easily accessible.

We Aim to Offer “A shared vision for the arts and culture to be central to the city’s future”

Contributing to sustainable growth in the city an active and visible arts and cultural sector will contribute to a healthy and vibrant cityCambridge is a rapidly growing city. We are committed to ensuring that the growth is good for the whole of the city and the people it serves. It is not possible to have successful growth without cultural development. We want to ensure that the benefits of growth are felt by everyone.

By connecting individuals, communities, sectors and disciplines the arts and culture will be vital to the creative development and growth of Cambridge and its position internationally. There is also an obvious contribution the sector makes to the economic development of the city.

Developing a creative welcome, making the city’s excellent cultural offer more easily accessible - drawing on the talents of artists and the cultural sector, creating opportunities for residents, new arrivals and visitorsWe want to help develop a more open, accessible, and creative welcome to those arriving in the city. As well as promoting to existing residents whata rich offer is on their doorstep and providing opportunities to improve their lives in a variety of ways.

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This Chart shows how low the Cambridgeshire unemployment rate has been over the course of seven years (from the start of the resetion till the end).

This chart shows the unemployment rate over the same time period in Huntingdons hire. Cambridgeshire has significantely lower rates showing why Cambridgeshire is in the top quarter of the country for best employment ratings.

The Cambridge Arts & Cultural Leaders Group

Academy of Ancient Music, Anglia Ruskin University, Britten Sinfonia, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cambridge Junction, Cambridge Literary Festival, Cambridge Live, Cambridge Music Festival, Cambridgeshire Library Service, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard, Museum of Cambridge, University of Cambridge Museums, University of Cambridge Public Engagement Team, Wysing Arts Centre.

visit our wbsite www.cam.ac.uk/inspiringcambridge

Contact Us AtInspiringcambridge@gmail.com

The Cambridge Arts & Cultural Leaders