Minutes: 4/3/2010 Present: Michelle Carwardine-Palmer (Chair) Salisbury Playhouse Peter Riley, Salisbury Libraries and Galleries Peter Ursem, ArtCare Sue Kent, Sarum Orchestra Mark Bishop, Big State Tom Craig, Head of Heritage, Libraries and Arts Dave Buxton, Devizes Carnival Caroline Peacock, Salisbury International Arts Festival Andy Burden, Arc Theatre Trowbridge Deryck Newland, Salisbury Arts Centre Stephanie Jalland, Hoodwink Apologies: Dominic Somers, TheatreWorks Paula Hammond, Wiltshire Dancing Maria Bota, Salisbury International Arts Festival Nicolas Fogg, Marlborough Jazz Festival Rachel Capell, Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership Keith Nimmo, Wiltshire Music Centre 1.Introduced Tracy Sullivan as new Development Manager who will be working for 2 days per week, increased from the 1 day with a more managerial focus than the former post. 2. Tom Craig, Director of Libraries, Heritage and Arts, Wiltshire Council: Peter Tyas has been appointed as Head Of Arts to begin on the 8th March. He will be meeting with the Core WAP group at Salisbury Playhouse on 30th March: Key areas of conversation suggested are: i. Local Development Framework and how The Arts sector can be best placed to feed into and influence the spend related to Section 106 agreement. Ii How we ‘Demonstrate Need’ for The Arts iii. How can we build on Co-production, work between public bodies and arts organisations practitioners to deliver an outcome. iv. ‘Councillors seek excellence through economic and instrumental impact’, how do we most time and cost effectively demonstrate these?
v. Need to look at what the long term strategy for collecting evidence. Where do we want to be in 10 years? Other key points: a. The Cultural Strategy, to include Sport, leisure and The Arts, is to be outlined by April with an opportunity for consultation in the Spring/ summer for Stuart Wheeler to present to the Cabinet at the end of the year. b. There is a longer term goal of building a Wiltshire Cultural Partnership which would have a representative from each sector. It was suggested that it might be useful for Tom or Peter to get in touch with Mike Hoskins of Dorset council who has done some positive work around joint ownership, and embedding culture within a Local Authority’s agenda. c. Wiltshire council is needing to make cuts of 20% over the next 5 years. d. There is currently no RDA or European funding consideration within the Cultural Strategy thinking. e. The Arts team need to make savings of £31,000 in the 2010/11 budget. 2. Cultural Olympiad Activity. 2.a. Basic questionnaires have been distributed throughout the WAP membership in order that a Wiltshire wide view can be had on what plans there are for celebrating the Cultural Olympiad. Tom Craig echoed the value of this as is suggested it is also something that is carried out for other sectors. 2.b TC shared that there is an opportunity for Wiltshire to put forward ideas to the RDA for activities that may be able to occur around the route of the Olympic Torch. Opportunities are: a drop in session over a lunch period that would be an event in itself; things happening along the route eg, a dance, street theatre, carnival activity; and/ or an evening event for up to 60 people. Deadline for outline ideas is 20 March. Nb: TC noted the unless activities hold the Inspire Brand they are not officially regarded as Cultural Olympiad projects. TS to add a question of whether The Inspire branding has or intends to be sought for each project. 3. Automatic TransMISSION 3.a. TS and DN presented proposal, see attached Powerpoint and outline for details. 3.b. Membership felt that it was directly in line with recommendations made by TC. 3.c. Steering group agreed to be: Mark Powel, Salisbury Playhouse Gill Roberts, Salisbury Festival Deryck Newland, Salisbury Arts Centre Tracy Sullivan, WAP and representing past Arc Theatre Trowbridge projects Peter Ursem, ArtsCare
Rachel Capell , WYAP TS to circulate possible meeting dates. 4. Communication Strategy 4.a. TS circulated the key Communication Objectives as defined by the Communication strategy. Actions are: 4.b. For members to attend their own local area boards, as both reps of their own organisations and of WAP. Members to contact their own Community Area Managers to be added to the invite list. These are open meetings so you can just ‘turn up’, and please let TS know so that we can have a record of who is going where. 4.c To use key points from the Elevator Speech in order that we are equipped to speak from a regional perspective. 4.d TS to add a line to the speech in order that there is clarity of involvement of individual artist’s and theatre makers 4.e. All members to add WAP logo to their print, TS to locate high res version and distribute. 4.d. TS to update Website following which all WAP members can make links from their own websites. 4.e. TS to contact each member for good news stories to send to press. 4.d. TS to contact all members for press contacts to ensure a County Wide spread 5. AOB Members shared joint activity that has been undertaken within the WAP membership to be reported back to ACE Dates of next mtgs were agreed as: Wed 16 June – Core Group Tue 14 Sept – Full Group Thur 2 Dec – Core Group Thur 3 March – Full Group Locations TBC. Full mtgs begin at 11am, Core mtgs 10am with Core group mtg 1 hour before full group mtgs.