Kansas City Regional Cultural Planning

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What is cultural planning?

A structured, community-wide fact-finding and consensus building process

Identification of existing cultural resources and community needs/opportunities

Planning actions and securing resources in response

5 steps to a cultural plan

1. Preplanning - evaluate community readiness

2. Community Assessment - Local Arts Index

3. Goal Setting - regional plan based on assets and needs

4. Implementation

5. Monitoring and Evaluation

Community Readiness checklist

Arts Community Support - Is there engagement from the community’s arts and cultural leaders?

Political Support - will elected officials endorse the regional cultural plan and formally support implementation?

Representation - will planning participants / plan reflect the community’s diversity?

Financial Support - is there be funding available from local govt., business and private sources to offset planning costs? Can funds be raised to implement collaborative planning recommendations?

Administrative Support - Is there an organization with administrative capacity to serve as facilitator of the planning process?

Why do Cultural Planning? Find new answers to old problems (detiorating downtowns, at-risk youth and inadequate arts in education...)

Tap the full economic development potential of local artists and cultural organizations

Better anticipate problems or opportunities that become evident through community assessment

Spark renewed civic pride

Strengthen support for artists and nonprofit cultural organizations

Fully integrate arts into education

Raise funds to support cultural development

Determine feasibility of establishing a cultural district or cultural facilities

Enhance access to cultural programs for a broader base of citizens

impact on communityMore and improved arts programs

Enhanced communication and cooperation among community arts groups

Fuller integration of the arts in the community

Increased visibility of artists and arts organizations

Improved public access to the arts / increased audience base

Enhanced community awareness of the potential contributions of arts and culture to community and eco devo

Increased cultural facilities (in some cities)

Increased funding from public and private sector, despite overall nationwide trend of decreasing funding for the arts

“Since implementing our cultural plan, public funding for the arts has quadrupled, private funding has doubled, audience have expanded.”

cultural plans involve:

Artists

Art audiences

Arts education

Arts facilities

Community development

Economic development

Festivals

Financial support for the arts

Historic preservation

Multiculturism

Cultural accessibility

Performing arts

Public art

Revitalization

Elected officials

Special public events

Tourism

Urban design

Visual arts

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