Arts and Culture Advisory Committee

0:02In our agenda, we would like to start with the land acknowledgement.

0:20As we gather, let us take time to reflect on our privilege to live and work in wealth.

0:30A city built over rich indigenous histories.

0:35We are guests here. We should reflect upon the responsibility to care for this land.

0:42The people who live here today and the generations to come.

0:47If our actions today can move us towards reconciliation, we should take pause and make those positions

0:54with intention and gratitude.

0:58This place we call wealth has served as traditional lamps and a place of refusing for many people's overtime.

1:08But more specifically, the Atti Wanderang and the Odonoso Soling.

1:18This land is held as the treaty lands and territory with the miscellaneous of the creative

1:24First Nations will lies directly adjacent to the Haldimand tract and is part of the

1:33longest administrative hunting ground for the six nations of the Grand River.

1:39Many First Nations, Inuit, Metis, peoples who have come from across Turtle Island call

1:46wealth from today.

1:51Next is there any itinerary interest?

1:55Is there any conflict of interest with anyone?

1:58Please clear.

2:02Moving to next is there approval of minutes and that there is a recommendation that the

2:10minutes from June 26th, 2035 meeting of the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee be approved.

2:19Do you all agree to meeting minutes that are attached to the agenda?

2:24Would anyone like to move these minutes?

2:30Anyone like to submit?

2:35Maybe.

2:36Anyone like to?

2:38Yeah, I can do that.

2:41All in favor?

2:43Anyone?

2:47Agonist?

2:48Okay.

2:49So the motion carried.

2:51Next agenda item for discussion today have one item for discussion and that the progress

3:07of the Culture Plan 2030.

3:10Now I'd like to invite any manager of the museums and culture to present the progress

3:16for you.

3:19And when are you going to share the PowerPoint?

3:21Yes, I'm going to do that.

3:25Can you guys see the PowerPoint?

3:27I would like to just put it in full screen.

3:32So can you see that?

3:34I'm sorry.

3:35And see it.

3:36Thank you.

3:37Thank you very much.

3:38All right.

3:39So thank you everyone for being here tonight.

3:41I think on our second meeting, it's a good time to be discussing revisiting our Culture

3:48Plan that was approved by Council in 2023.

3:52And so we are about halfway through our first short term three year goals.

4:00And so tonight I wanted to provide, I know you have lots of reading material.

4:04You've got the Culture Plan and the report.

4:07But I wanted to talk about where we are today and what we should be prioritizing for the

4:12next year and a half as we continue to make progress on our short term goals.

4:18So when I feel forward to slide.

4:22So just as a reminder of the vision and mission of Culture Plan 2030, our vision is wealth

4:28culture everywhere, every day for everyone.

4:33And our mission is working together with the collective vision and collaborative effort

4:38to support community vitality, equity and inclusion, environmental responsibility, and

4:43economic prosperity in and through culture.

4:47So if you could forward it, winning to the first set of objectives.

4:51So tonight we're looking at the short term objectives which were proposed to be completed

4:59within or advanced within the first three years of the plan.

5:02And we'll go through each of them.

5:05And we're what the status is of those objectives now and where I propose the priority is.

5:13So low does not mean it's not a priority or it isn't important.

5:19It is still important, but it will be I rated the objectives low priority if we've already

5:27achieved them and we're just kind of in a maintenance phase or if we haven't started

5:32them yet, but there are other things that seem to be higher priorities.

5:36So you can challenge me.

5:38I encourage you to challenge me on these.

5:39If there's something I have rated that you think should be higher and the priority list.

5:48So I should say there are 52 objectives that we'll be looking at.

5:52I think there's 12 that are high priority.

5:56There's 20 something that are medium and 15 that are low.

6:03So that is not everything can be a high priority.

6:06So 52 short term or 50 short term?

6:09Yeah.

6:10Yeah.

6:11So high would be those things, those items that that we are on track with progressing

6:18towards and want to continue the work or have come to the top of the pile because community

6:24have us as to concentrate on those and then medium are the things in between.

6:30So so if we look at our first cultivate investing cultures for our term objectives, the first

6:36was to adequately fund anchor culture sites and service organizations.

6:42And so that is the Civic Museum.

6:44It is a river run center.

6:47It is community benefit agreement for the Art Gallery of 12.

6:51That funding has remained stable and the city is in fact making significant capital investments

6:56in culture, including the Central Library, including the new pottery center at West End.

7:03So I would suggest that that objective we are achieving and it is a low priority.

7:12No disagreement there.

7:13I see nods.

7:15The second short term objective is invest in public art acquisitions and commissions.

7:21So there was a budget allocation when the culture plan was first approved.

7:26There was an annual operating budget allocation that was to go into a public to grow our public

7:32art reserve.

7:34And that operating budget allocation was delayed until 2027.

7:40So so it is in progress.

7:42It is on our radar.

7:44We will be watching when the budget comes out this fall.

7:50There are some other opportunities for us to invest in public art.

7:55We know that there is a contribution coming from the police services board for public

8:00art.

8:01There are some other potential capital projects that might have public art built in.

8:06So it is in progress.

8:08And I would suggest it is a high priority that we continue to keep our investment in

8:14public art.

8:15Sorry, because I'm new to this, I'm going to have questions.

8:20So if they're going to be answered at some other time, just sounds like we've got a lot

8:24to get through.

8:25But in terms of public art, so the art, I assume there's art owned by.

8:31The art gallery of Guelph.

8:36And is that considered public art in the context that you're speaking of here?

8:44So when we talk about public art acquisitions here, we're talking about city owned public

8:49art, the city acquired in public art.

8:52Right.

8:53So it would be different from the art gallery.

8:55So examples are the sun garden sculptures by the market.

8:59Our city, that was a city commission wheel that public art.

9:03And so this is talking about the city investing in public art for life.

9:08Okay.

9:09Yeah.

9:12Thank you.

9:13Anybody disagree that it's a high priority?

9:15We should focus on that.

9:21And then I'll move on to the final in the investing culture, consider modifications to municipal

9:27community investment programs.

9:30So we have been exploring models from different communities.

9:35What came up in the culture plan was the arts community indicating they wanted a unique

9:40funding program that was separate from the community grant program, which is where we

9:45currently fund cultural organizations.

9:50And then there's also micro grant programs for individual artists that have been piloted.

9:54So we heard from the community that they wanted art specific funding programs.

10:02We have had three meetings now with our colleagues in community investment that do the community

10:07granting program.

10:09We do know that there is going to, there was a review of the community benefit agreement

10:14program, which is another stream of funding they manage.

10:18Community grants are smaller annual or up to three years of funding.

10:25That's where most of the culture grants are sitting right now.

10:29There is going to be a review of community investment in general in 2026 we understand.

10:35And so we want to be at that table.

10:37And because this was an issue that came through so strongly in our community engagement, I

10:43think we have created this a high priority.

10:48The first slide, I mean, really was the anchor culture sites in the size of the city of Guelph.

10:53Right?

10:54Like in southernness, like the corporation, they weren't like anchored other arts and

10:59culture sites.

11:00Well, it is except it also includes and I abbreviated the description.

11:05So the slides weren't so long, but it also includes community benefit agreements like

11:11we have with the Art Gallery of Guelph and with the Guelph Arts Council.

11:14Right?

11:15So, yeah.

11:16Okay.

11:17So I would say yes, the bottom I should be high, but I don't know that we have until

11:25we know what change can happen in the like third one.

11:31I don't know that we could say like the objectives are complete.

11:36Like for the first one.

11:39Oh, for the first one.

11:40Because I was thinking the first one was like the pottery thing is like and inside the city.

11:46Right.

11:47It is.

11:48Yeah.

11:51And it is.

11:52Yeah.

11:53So if that's what.

11:54So we should say that's in progress.

11:55I feel like that is progress if it's not just city facilities.

11:59Yeah.

12:00That's fair.

12:06And in terms of the priority we placed on it, have we done a good demand study of like

12:22I know at budget time heard from lots of organizations, but would you have like was there structured

12:28data collected from like community organizations that showed the need?

12:36So other than just the granting process through the grants investment.

12:41Yeah.

12:42So what I was going to say is for the third one, so the granting program, I do know we

12:49can look at data that demonstrates the need, the note, the request and what was granted

12:55and the ratio of successful applications.

13:01So that would be for the modifications to the community grants.

13:11But for kind of the broader, if we're talking about the first objective now in terms of

13:16adequately funding agriculture sites.

13:20Yeah.

13:21We don't have that data.

13:22Yeah.

13:23We could collect it if that was something that was something.

13:25I feel like that's important.

13:27So if there's a medium, yeah, but that medium, really they're all high.

13:31We've been born in my home.

13:33But they are all high, but we're a small yet mighty team and 52 in a lot to be tapped.

13:42So we do want you to.

13:45But medium for sure.

13:47Because like, does everybody anything else on these first?

13:54I think that's a good question.

13:56So for the grants program, do you usually provide that grant to like, registered organizations

14:05or like any organizations that operate within the community?

14:09Yeah.

14:10So that program is open to any organizations across all sectors, human services, arts and

14:16culture, sport and recreation.

14:18It's a broad program open to the community.

14:23And then into like, where that's like, yes, that's right.

14:30Yeah.

14:31Yeah.

14:36Questions on our.

14:37All right.

14:38We'll move on to the next slide.

14:40Winnie.

14:41So under the goal to increase access.

14:52Oops.

14:54To affordable space for artists to create, rehearse, perform and exhibit.

14:59First objective was to build capacity for culture activities at municipal properties,

15:05upgrade amenities.

15:06So right now there is, I didn't write this down, but there's Pottery Studio going in

15:13at West End Community Center.

15:16We are preparing for the installation of events screen in Market Square.

15:21I have suggested that we are making progress on this objective and that the priority is

15:27medium.

15:28I'll just go through all four and then we can have discussions.

15:30That's very handy.

15:32The next objective is to increase community access to Riverrun Center resources.

15:38And so in fact, we have piloted some co-productions for the Riverrun Presents series with Wealth

15:44Dance and with others.

15:48And so that's in progress because this was something that came up a lot when we were

15:55doing the community consultation on the culture plan.

16:01And because there is a new manager at Riverrun Center as well who brings some different experiences,

16:09I've marked this as a high priority because I think we're making some good progress and

16:14we seem to be positioned in a good position for opportunity right now.

16:23Establish and maintain inventory and mapping of public and private culture spaces and services.

16:28So we have established some baseline inventory and a process for maintenance of the inventory.

16:39Some of that work was done as we were working on the drill hall feasibility study.

16:43So that was advantageous.

16:45So that is in progress.

16:47And I have marked it as high because inventory and cultural mapping came up a lot and seems

16:53to be kind of the foundational data we need to make plans in other areas.

16:58So that's why I've marked that as a high priority.

17:01And then create culture spaces and presence throughout the city, including the south and

17:06west neighborhoods.

17:08So we have been intentional about presenting programming in parks around cultural parks

17:14around cultural programming and parks around the city.

17:19Again the West End Community Center pottery studio will be going in.

17:23There will be a culture presence at the south end community center.

17:28And so we have been intentional about that programming.

17:33So I would say that's in progress and that it's a medium priority.

17:37This is where I'm a bit of a broken record I guess.

17:43But I know that when with the new library coming on string there will be a lot of space

17:54there.

17:56Not dedicated performance space but certainly lots of flexible space.

18:02And I know that historically there's been a bit of siloing maybe is that the right word

18:11or operating in parallel but not necessarily together in terms of library city collaboration

18:22around use of space.

18:26And I would love to see that there could be more inroads made to connecting up and utilizing

18:37space.

18:38I mean part of what the library really is supposed to be.

18:43I've been away from it for a while but I'm sure it hasn't changed in terms of providing

18:47space for nonprofits and community organizations that don't have the cash to rent the river

18:56or to find other places.

18:59And so I'd love to see more connection and collaboration between the two organizations

19:06in this.

19:10That's great.

19:11I'm going to mark that.

19:13And are you thinking Katie like in the brain?

19:17We talk here about creating cultural spaces outside of the core like throughout the city.

19:23So are you thinking you referenced the new central library?

19:28Certainly the central.

19:31But certainly the branch as well.

19:33I mean they have more limited space.

19:37Certainly.

19:38I've made a note to work that in to our work plan when we're putting our work plan

19:52together for addressing space.

19:57Any other reflections on this?

20:02I'm not sure if it's a little added to what you just mentioned now.

20:07Sorry.

20:08But my perspective also, sorry, that hold up for a bit.

20:14Yeah, my perspective is a little bit along those lines if I heard correctly.

20:19And mine is just speaking to, because I feel like around here, all of it looked really

20:26good on paper.

20:28Perfect.

20:31The application and how the application might in some way just exclude some people.

20:40That's really where my concern is.

20:43I'm just thinking of some real concrete strategies to include people that will, because once

20:53these things get going and they are up and running, you most likely find same circle

21:01of people utilizing the spaces.

21:05And honestly, I feel like more than ever, my perspective might be a little off, right?

21:12This city needs an injection of freshness.

21:16UNS.

21:19Yeah.

21:20So I feel it's really important that these things that we have on paper include those

21:26people from the planning up to the execution.

21:30Yeah.

21:31I think you might see that reflected a little further down in these slides.

21:36And we can see that captures.

21:39I've tried to read already.

21:41I'll speak to you when we get there.

21:43And I'm just wondering when you'll be able to help us with the motions at the end.

21:48But when it comes time to approve this report, there will be an opportunity, I think, when

21:57you can correct me if I'm wrong, to say report approved with these suggestions or these directions.

22:07Is that?

22:08Yes, certainly.

22:09Any members that could propose any motions that they would like to vote on and to just

22:15and reach the motions that are recommended by time.

22:18So it's certainly that they can do that.

22:22Okay.

22:23Thank you.

22:24No worries.

22:25Thanks.

22:26Anything else on this?

22:28Oh, you go.

22:30I was just looking at like the first bit of it, like increasing access to affordable space

22:37for artists to create.

22:39This is coming just from my perspective as like young artists.

22:45There's like no space for like there's no studio spaces besides like necessary.

22:51It's wonderful.

22:53But there's of course limited spaces there where there's like, you know, studios, bases

22:58available for any young artists in Guelph and that is prompting us to move away or find

23:03a different city or like create out of our home and that's very limiting or so.

23:11And I've heard rumors of the like there being a building for just to become a big studio

23:18space hub.

23:19Please.

23:20The drill hall.

23:21So I think that's on the next level.

23:23Yeah.

23:24Yeah.

23:25But that's a long term project too.

23:28So maybe we need to have a discussion about like what is the stop gap measure between

23:35that and connecting artists with space.

23:39Yeah.

23:40I think that's a really strong point.

23:42Well, it's like a stronger like.

23:45Reputation of being like a really.

23:48Strong visual arts space that it's not reflected in like that.

23:53So it's that we have.

23:55Yeah.

23:56Yeah.

23:57Yeah.

23:58So that's great.

23:59Yeah.

24:00Yes.

24:01Yes.

24:02Yes.

24:03Yes.

24:04Yes.

24:05I was just going to ask about the inventory.

24:09Yeah.

24:10So what's the impact of that?

24:12And is that something that's going to be kind of like open sourced and ongoing?

24:16Yeah.

24:17That's the intent.

24:18So we took, there was a decade ago.

24:21A culture map.

24:22Yeah.

24:23So we took the data from that and updated it.

24:26And then we had a grad student do some.

24:30An environmental scan to see what was missing from that.

24:35And then we had a lot of information and then working at finding a way to make

24:40that public and working on a process to maintain it because the old culture map.

24:47Was intended to be kind of self sustaining by the community and.

24:51Yeah.

24:52It died and we're not unique in what I, what I've talked to colleagues across the

24:56territory.

24:57So we are trying to find a way to, to establish it and then maintain it.

25:02Yeah.

25:03Okay.

25:08So we're on the first floor.

25:11We can move to the next slide.

25:13Many.

25:19Okay.

25:20So we are on the, so a short term objective to develop co-presenting program through

25:24museums and culture to provide use of municipal spaces.

25:28So we have done that through the culture days program and the city's artists and residents

25:33program.

25:34And we are looking at a couple of other co-productions this year.

25:39So I would say that's in progress.

25:42I'm marked it as a high priority just because we are on the path and we are, we are

25:47expending a lot of attention there.

25:50Identify potential new culture spaces.

25:53So initiated the inventory of culture spaces and a gap analysis as part of the drill hall

26:00feasibility study.

26:01So that relates point earlier in progress and have marketed as a medium support culture

26:08uses for the drill hall and Ontario reformatory lands.

26:11So we completed the drill hall feasibility study.

26:14That's in progress.

26:16We will, that has now left our department and others are doing the heavy lifting on the

26:22actual conversion of that building and what that looks like.

26:26We will be brought back into that and that will come up during the budget.

26:30It was referred to the budget process.

26:32So that will be an issue again at budget time, but it is in progress.

26:37I've marked it as a medium from our priority standpoint just because we're not doing the

26:42heavy lifting at this point, but I could be convinced otherwise.

26:46And then develop a gear sharing lending program.

26:50We haven't advanced this at all.

26:53So it is pending and I am suggesting at this point it's a low priority.

26:58There are others that are doing similar activities and we'll want to connect and make sure in

27:05fact that we can be helpful in this area.

27:08So that's why I've marked it as a low priority for us at this time.

27:14Comments on this section.

27:16Julian.

27:20Where's the real well sitting?

27:22Like what department did it move to?

27:24With infrastructure.

27:26So yeah, they're doing the analysis on like the costing of it.

27:33Cost of the building.

27:35And then the regulatory lands.

27:37I still own by the province.

27:39So keeping our eye on whatever happens.

27:42So this one we're just monitoring if there's an opportunity for it to culture.

27:46And yeah, okay.

27:48Just for the last point, like developing gear sharing and lending program.

27:53Obviously I don't know like too much business experience, but.

27:56Like at video does that and they do a lot of heavy lifting that I know like and some cities like they're the libraries and stuff like that.

28:03Take some of that weight off and not like.

28:06Yeah, and video does a lot for the city and it doesn't get as much support as I think it should.

28:11It is a lot of work.

28:13And I think it's a lot of work.

28:15And I think it's a lot of work.

28:17And I think it's a lot of work.

28:19And I think it's a lot of work.

28:21And I think that it's a lot of work.

28:23But I think the city and it doesn't get as much support as I think it should.

28:27It supports like all the students at well.

28:30And like so many different realms and like, I don't know.

28:35If there's any way the city could like support ever to go more.

28:38Obviously I don't know in depth, like what we already do with them.

28:41But.

28:42I think they get a community grant.

28:45But yeah, yeah, we certainly have a conversation.

28:51Like that is a strategy.

28:53It's better to support existing community

28:56or it's doing the thing versus the city as an order.

29:00It doesn't necessarily, isn't in the mandate

29:02of creating a gear lending program.

29:05Like you really just want to facilitate gear lending

29:08to happen.

29:09Yeah.

29:10And it is like a cultural hub there too.

29:11Like they host so many like major art events

29:14that are underfunded and not supported enough.

29:17So.

29:23Any other thoughts on this?

29:27I'm wondering if there's something like a gap analysis

29:31for gear.

29:32Like it's not like a spatial gap analysis,

29:35but just it seems like there are certain kinds of gear.

29:38Like if you're a sculptor, you can get a lot of things

29:39from the tool library.

29:41If you're a video artist, you can get a lot of things

29:43from ad video, but not necessarily like if you're

29:47an analog photographer, the tool library doesn't

29:51stock darkroom material and neither does ad video.

29:54Yeah.

29:55So it's kind of work we would have to do.

29:57Yeah.

29:57To advance that.

29:58Yeah.

29:59So maybe just layer into the space piece.

30:01And then if there was a decision, it's like we buy the gear

30:06and house it with the organization.

30:07So then it's still used by communities

30:09versus making that new program.

30:12Sure.

30:12Yeah, we're a donation program if people have gear.

30:15Yeah.

30:16Scarlett Madeline, we haven't gone to you.

30:18Did any shout at us if you have any and go on dates.

30:27Moving on to the next slide.

30:32Support Indigenous community members to reclaim exercise

30:35and share their cultural practices.

30:38So our objectives were to work with Indigenous community

30:41members to enhance the June 21st event.

30:44So we did an event this past June 20th with community

30:48and we are initiating a new approach for 2026.

30:51This is in progress and it is a high priority.

30:55Eliminate barriers and increase access to public spaces

30:58for Indigenous ceremony and cultural practices,

31:01including sacred fires, drumming and smudging.

31:04So we've provided space for sacred fires

31:06at the Civic Museum.

31:10Recreation department developed new spudging protocols

31:13for recreation facilities.

31:15So that's in progress.

31:16And I've rated it as a medium priority

31:18because it is work that is going,

31:20we need to continue throughout

31:23and then continue dialogue with Mississauga's

31:25of the Credit First Nations,

31:26Six Nations of the Grand River

31:28and urban Indigenous community members

31:30to identify opportunities to strengthen relationships

31:33and representation.

31:35And so we do have,

31:37we continue to work with Indigenous partners

31:39on a number of initiatives.

31:40It is in progress.

31:41I've rated it as a medium priority

31:43because it is just kind of that slow burn work

31:45that we need to continue to do throughout the plan.

31:50So any reflections on those three?

31:56I feel like sorta like, I don't know,

31:59there's a lot of values of dense

32:01that could be intertwined with every single element

32:03of all the other sections.

32:05And I know that everything has to be identified

32:08and quite structured and just end with it.

32:12But having this carried through everything else

32:14a bit more would be good.

32:18And I don't know.

32:21I feel like from my perspective,

32:23I can't say for sure that the City of Guelph

32:26respects their advocates for land back,

32:30which is the spot that we need to be at.

32:33So I don't know, those are just my thoughts

32:36and observations.

32:42Like supporting places like Art Now Shame,

32:46like just a lot of people.

32:52Your reflections in this area.

32:57I think this is probably like the weakness of everything.

33:03Right?

33:04So what I was wondering about was,

33:08are there ways that the culture plan

33:12is supporting individuals to participate?

33:16Like individual Indigenous community members

33:19to have more access to either facilities or two things?

33:25Because some of the, I think we're like moving

33:29past the time where we can just say,

33:33we've provided space for sacred fires at the Civic Museum.

33:37So like, is there anything you're seeing on the horizon

33:40that we could be like amplifying in this?

33:46Like I'm not saying this is bad.

33:47Yeah, I'm just saying.

33:51We are responding to requests

33:54from Indigenous community members, right?

33:56So we were at the Civic Museum received your request

34:01to do a sacred fire on our patio there.

34:05Because folks didn't want to use this sacred fire.

34:10So we have not declined,

34:18denied a request of Indigenous community

34:21to accommodate space or support.

34:26But to your point, we're also not projecting

34:29what we think, I think to your point,

34:32we're not projecting what might be down the road

34:36that we should be prepared for making space for.

34:38So it's not just on request.

34:42Yeah, yeah.

34:43Yeah, like if community members,

34:47let's say if Indigenous community members knew

34:49that they could call the Civic Museum,

34:53like there are going to be safe organizations

34:55and not safe organizations.

34:58So how can we continue to do that

35:03so that we're reaching more Indigenous community members?

35:10Yeah, sorry, the question along the lines.

35:12I'm just thinking, is there like a group

35:17or like a body that the museum relates with

35:21regarding like the Indigenous?

35:26Our official contacts are with our treaty,

35:31the treaty holder in Mississauga

35:33is the credit first nation,

35:34Six Nations of the Grand River,

35:36because this is traditional territory for the Haudenosaunee.

35:41Within the urban Indigenous community,

35:43there isn't one spokes person or collective group.

35:50There's a few different, different, yeah.

35:53There are different types of collective,

35:54so we do try to maintain relationship

35:56with all individuals and collectives.

36:00I just feel like, yeah, I mean,

36:02it's definitely going to be a little hard

36:04reaching all of them,

36:06but I just personally feel that a lot of times,

36:12groups like that, people like that

36:13would look at how you're dealing with other ones,

36:17and that would be some motivation

36:19to make them want to be a part of things.

36:21So, I mean, it starts off with just one person.

36:24So I feel if they see that consistency

36:27in the way the Museum of the Culture team

36:31deals with those people,

36:33it would most likely encourage more people

36:35to come out to the open.

36:37And then I feel like that might be a good place

36:40to build a relationship with more and more people,

36:43and it will grow in time.

36:44I just wanted to be sure how that's really going to be done

36:50such that it actually answers their questions

36:56or involves them.

36:59Yeah, so me just thinking how the practical ways

37:02to engage them and build a relationship over time,

37:07such that it grows, and at some point,

37:10you really want to stop them from coming

37:12if it's handled properly.

37:14That's just my perspective as to how

37:17they can be further engaged

37:19and connected with.

37:21So should we turn those medium priorities

37:24to high priorities then?

37:27I think it's pretty high for me, that's just my take.

37:31That's like, yeah.

37:32I mean, that seems, yes.

37:33Yeah.

37:35Like, there's also a matter of putting the labor

37:41on the communities rather than stepping up to do the work,

37:48if that makes sense?

37:48Like, putting the labor, you know what I mean?

37:53Like, I don't know.

37:55Like, it's up to like the city to step up

37:58and like actually do the actions of making,

38:03like I don't know.

38:04It goes, sorry, I'm so like hungry.

38:07Sorry.

38:08I'm sorry.

38:09I'm sorry.

38:10I'm sorry.

38:10I'm sorry.

38:11That's not true.

38:12So like, the elements of it, actually like, I don't know.

38:18Yeah, it's a lot of labor and exhaustion to like,

38:24of it all be on like the communities to be like, hey, like, speak up, reach out, speak

38:33up, reach out.

38:34Like you do the work, you do the work.

38:35It's also up to like other areas to like do the work and step up.

38:40And I mean, even in like our like, I'm going to stop speaking, but like I'm like, you know,

38:50it just like files back to like everything.

38:55Yeah, no, I'm going to come back.

38:59Something I do is sharing the Indigenous Relations framework that the city developed with

39:04Indigenous community because the balance is also is, I hear you about the labor and that we need

39:15to do as a city, as museums and culture, we need to do the heavy lifting to ensure equity and

39:23inclusion and reconciliation, restoration of relationship.

39:31At the same time, we need to follow the lead of Indigenous community.

39:38And the phrase that's often used is nothing about us without us, right?

39:42So it's finding that balance of not kind of projecting our own kind of vision or aspirations,

39:52but instead taking lead from Indigenous community and then doing the work.

39:55And I think the city did develop an Indigenous Relations framework with Indigenous community

40:01that guides all of the work that happens across the entire corporation of the city, that it might

40:07be helpful to share that soon.

40:09We see that context.

40:12Yeah, I just want to say that from the perspective of having sat on the Museum Advisory Committee

40:19for a couple of years, I've been incredibly impressed with the Museum's willingness and

40:37motivation to connect well with the Indigenous community that

40:46have been involved in the work, and I think that's been a big part of it,

40:53in wealth, I think particularly.

40:56And the exhibits and the projects that have been entered into in collaboration,

41:03I mean, you can see that they are Indigenous-led, that there's a very strong commitment to that.

41:11And it does come down to individuals building relationships.

41:17And there's been, I think, in my understanding, a lot of wonderful relationship building with

41:23Ingwelf Museums and the Indigenous community.

41:28And I don't mean to say that community is a homogeneous group, because I think

41:36many of us know that Ingwelf, that is absolutely not the case.

41:39And yet I think that, yeah, I've been so impressed with the work that I've seen Museums do.

41:52Yeah, I met a particular guy through the Museum, really.

41:55I mean, I feel good every time I talk to Jack.

41:58I met him through the Museum.

42:01And every time I see him on the road, the way he says hi, I just really like the fact that

42:07I met him through the Museum.

42:08And someone like that is someone that I haven't suffriended.

42:11So I really feel talking about those connections, it just starts with that relationship that you

42:17started.

42:18And I feel, I think it's really small, but I'm sure he feels a level of connection as well.

42:24And he sees me, because he looks out for me.

42:27And that's what I'm speaking to as well.

42:28Like, yeah, that relationship sustained.

42:31His work grows into more.

42:33And then it just builds into something even bigger.

42:35Yeah.

42:36So these slides.

42:44Thanks all for that.

42:45Next.

42:47Bye.

42:48Many thanks.

42:50So prioritized equity deserving artists and audiences and municipal programming and space

42:55allocation, engage programming advisors and producers from equity deserving communities

43:01as standard operating practice.

43:04We haven't advanced that it is pending.

43:06And I have indicated it is a medium priority.

43:11Work with the recreation department to ensure facility use policies and practices are inclusive

43:16and culturally responsive.

43:19Culture and rep continue to work together to advise on policies and practices.

43:23It's in progress and represented in the culture plan and the parks and rep master plan.

43:30And so I've indicated that's my medium priority and review and update the artists and residents

43:36program.

43:37It was updated and rebranded last year.

43:39So I've marked that as completed and a low priority, but maybe public health advice,

43:45former public health advisory committee members might have some reflections on that.

43:51So is there anything that stands out in those priorities that should be changed?

43:56Sure.

43:57I have some questions.

44:07Just a terminology question.

44:09Equity deserving.

44:10That's kind of the going term, is it?

44:14Okay.

44:17I guess there's no wording that is really great.

44:21Deserving the sort of seats.

44:22Well, who decides who deserves?

44:26But it almost sounds condescending to me in a way.

44:30But yeah, it's hard to find words in our language, I guess.

44:36Is it terminology that the intergovernmental relations framework uses?

44:46And so we used it here.

44:48But these terms are fluid as well.

44:52And so when there's a better term, we will substitute it.

44:58Any reflections on this?

44:59Has it captured it?

45:01Probably.

45:04Do me a favor.

45:05Just a question.

45:05I guess on the progress today, I know you said that that one had many events.

45:09But yeah, what does that look like when it is advanced?

45:13Well, actually, I think that objective was inspired by some abanches and pleturing the

45:19culture plan.

45:20And I think it looks like hiring a producer who works with Equity Deserving Artists to

45:30advise on programming at Riverrun Center.

45:33That sort of thing.

45:34So yeah.

45:35Oh.

45:35Yeah.

45:36Or hiring a producer to produce culture programming specific to Equity Deserving Artists.

45:43And the thought was that right now when we consider diversity in our programming, it's often

45:51programming our diverse artists for the traditional audiences as opposed to programming

46:02for diverse audiences.

46:04Right.

46:05So yeah.

46:06So it starts all the way in HR inside the city.

46:09Yeah.

46:09Yeah.

46:10Carries through.

46:10Yeah.

46:11Yeah.

46:11Yeah.

46:12I think as far as the Arts and Residence program, it's pretty current.

46:27As long as there's a little word for it.

46:29Like maybe it's like every couple of years, there's like a little refresh that happens.

46:35Still minor in context to the rest.

46:43Click we lost.

46:44Oh no, Scarlett's there.

46:45She's just a letter now.

46:49Next slide, Winnie.

46:51Hi, Scarlett.

46:52Incentivized Development of Culture Programming in Winter Months.

46:57Work with community partners to develop new indoor and outdoor programming that meets community

47:03need for culture experiences from November to February.

47:06The culture plan we heard that's a long, cold, dark winter.

47:10It needed some life.

47:12So we haven't made any progress on that today, except I am keeping a file of other communities

47:17that are doing this.

47:19So the status is pending and I have rated it as a low priority now just because there are

47:25so many other high priorities.

47:28And it's not that we are without culture experiences in the winter.

47:34We have the Riverrun Center.

47:35We have the museums and the art gallery that all program through the winter.

47:39But yeah.

47:41The Riverrun, I don't know.

47:43Maybe it's my immigrant perspective.

47:46You look very bougie to me.

47:50That's what we've heard.

47:53It's not your immigrant perspective.

48:05Anybody want to raise a priority on this or is it good where it sits?

48:09I think it's humming.

48:10I just feel like the winter is usually very long.

48:15And there's a huge need for a place to release.

48:20So I don't know if that place is low, medium or high.

48:24I'm not sure.

48:25But it's just really long months.

48:29And people definitely deserve a place to release.

48:35I mean, that's how I feel during the winter months.

48:39So I don't know if it's still low, but only the rest of the team too.

48:47Yeah.

48:53I don't know.

48:55I think the drill hall is going to be really great.

48:57I'm very excited.

49:04Maybe make it a medium or whatever.

49:06I think it should be a place to meet.

49:11Yeah.

49:13And it is working with community partners.

49:15We have a magnificent skating rink that can also be looked down to.

49:20That Cardin Street could be venue for something fun happening in Doran in the winter.

49:25We still live.

49:27After a week's action.

49:29Honestly, every time I walk past that place, this is the place to say it, I have some not

49:34even African friends, like Ecuadorian friends, right?

49:37We just ask ourselves that why do we have to speak as a day on walk all the time?

49:42Yeah.

49:44That's like the speakers a day already.

49:47So I feel like it should just work more, just step up the mood and maybe we'll feel better.

49:53I think it's hard to say that.

49:55Boom.

49:57All right.

49:59Next slide.

50:04It's so important.

50:06It's very important to support environmentally sustainable practices and culture programming.

50:10So the objectives are to recommend increases.

50:13To available equipment to support sustainable practices that culture events, including more water wagons and bike racks, I'll work with community to develop waste reduction strategies for events, and encourage public and active transportation to culture events.

50:29about increase in water wagon and bike rags that was deferred as a budget

50:36decision. So it is pending and I have marked it as a low priority compared to

50:42all the other things that we are doing and it also lives in other departments

50:46right so we can advocate for it but we don't run our own water wagons. Work with

50:52the community to develop waste reduction strategies for events. We

50:56haven't started to work on that. Super interested to see what community

51:00or hillside is doing etc. So it is pending and I have marked it as a low

51:05priority at this time and encourage public and active transportation to

51:09culture events. We haven't initiated any advancement on that. It is pending. I did

51:15mark it as a medium because I think there's some low hanging fruit there in

51:18terms of just messages and advertising encouraging people to take the buses or

51:24saying where the bus route is closest to that use system. Any reflections on that?

51:30I have really capital thoughts. I don't know. I feel like the public transport

51:42involved has a reputation of being inaccessible and not great especially

51:47in the fact that most other cities have a compressed oak hard or a debit card or

51:52some sort of tap and the fact that we use change. People find motor skills have

51:56difficulties with this. It's so expensive to ride the bus. There's just

52:03general public transportation and issues within that. Maybe that's just my

52:10student perspective. All areas obviously would be great examples but

52:18this specifically would also be a great example of how the city can go

52:23farther and the objective of land back and having voices actually be

52:33heard in this realm and everywhere. This would be a great spot to work on.

52:41Do you think we need to raise the priorities on it?

52:54I thought I'd chime in. Sometimes I find it hard because you're all in a room

53:07together talking and I'm just like a big face on the screen but no I think

53:12it's really important to encourage public transportation and other

53:17forms of transportation. I bike a lot in the summer so I think about it a lot

53:21because I'm trying to figure out how to use my bike to get places. I've been

53:26hearing things online about a bike mayor for Guelph that was recently

53:32selected somehow and I'm just wondering if there's a way to engage with

53:37that individual because I keep seeing them popping up online and I haven't

53:41been actively trying to find them so the algorithm keeps giving it to me.

53:45I think one of the things people could consider looking at is when it comes

53:53to promoting something that's not a car, how do I actually cycle myself

53:58there? What's the routes to take? We don't know all the roads that are

54:02going to be good. I bike to the University every day and it's a great route

54:06but as soon as I go off the beaten path I don't know the cars on that road. I

54:10don't know how they're going to react to me and it can be a lot more frightful

54:13and I've been doing this for decades but not everybody else's so it's

54:18little things like that where there's usually a map for parking but you

54:22never really think about what's the right route to take to cycle from point

54:26A to point B or for public transport because the bus can take you an hour

54:32to get somewhere that takes 10 minutes to drive so people are going to see

54:36them and be like, yeah, I don't think I really want to do that but I think I

54:41can see it being at medium but I don't know maybe raise it to high. Realizing

54:45that everything seems to be, I feel like we keep raising everything to high and

54:48not to high but I think it's important.

54:52Okay, thanks Madeline.

54:54Other thoughts?

54:57Just a question on the transport buses and whatnot. Can the city emphasize on its

55:06own buses or less money? Like to yourself, if you wanted to have an ad for a culture

55:11event on the buses.

55:13There's a city rate that we say, yeah, yeah.

55:17Do we do that a lot?

55:19We haven't done it in a while. We did it for some residents a couple of years ago

55:22and it was effective and yeah I do find those ads impactful so yeah.

55:27Because that would fit in like even just doing a little bit more of that like

55:30links the two together.

55:31Yeah.

55:32So I'm okay with priorities.

55:37I'm just curious about the second one. Is that not, I mean, developing waste

55:44reduction strategies for events. That's got to be something that's a high

55:50priority for the city in general. Is it not?

55:53Like there, so there is a three stream waste or event rules that happen, especially

56:01events, cultural events on city property.

56:05But I have seen another, well I've seen that hillside reason plates, other

56:09communities, festivals banding together and buying a set of reason plates and so on.

56:15So that's the kind of thing I think that we were talking about going beyond the

56:20city standard.

56:22Yeah.

56:23Yeah, hillside does on site composting.

56:25That's right.

56:26That's amazing.

56:27Yeah.

56:27What hillside does.

56:28Yeah.

56:28Yeah.

56:28And then you have other events like that just are still

56:33nerve-racking attraction.

56:34Mm-hmm.

56:34Yeah.

56:35Yeah.

56:36Next slide.

56:47Adopt culture friendly bylaws policies and practices.

56:50So review and recommend amendments to municipal bylaws identified as presenting

56:55barriers to the culture sector, including but not limited to noise control, sign bylaw.

57:01So we have had some consultation with bylaw.

57:04We have set up some meetings with community and bylaw.

57:07So that's in progress.

57:09Again, big issue that came out particularly from the music community.

57:12And so I do think that's a high priority for us.

57:16Yeah.

57:16Work with active and tourism and recreation and the local film industry

57:22representatives to assess opportunities for film friendly policies and practices.

57:27So we haven't advanced that.

57:30It is pending.

57:32There have been various approaches to film within the city in the past.

57:40And so it's on the radar.

57:44But at this point, I'm saying it's a low priority because it is a big initiative.

57:48That is actually bigger than a short-term like one to three year initiative.

57:53And then work with planning to identify and recommend levers that support infusion of

57:58culture in city building.

57:59And so we haven't advanced those conversations.

58:03I have it as pending and as a medium.

58:05Right.

58:06Sorry.

58:12What do we mean by the support infusion of culture and city building?

58:16I'm not sure I understand that part.

58:20In there are different approaches in different communities about within community planning,

58:27how culture is represented.

58:29Right.

58:29There's percentage levies for public art.

58:36There are rules about public art and as they relate to new builds.

58:42So that kind of thing, we want to explore what is possible through the Planning Act

58:47in the city's planning processes to support culture.

59:00I can't get on the bylaw bit.

59:03Is there an inventory of like, these are all the bylaws that could impact culture?

59:09Thinking about road closures and other things in my head, all the bylaws.

59:14Yeah.

59:15And where might they be impeding communities like at the grassroots level to orchestrated

59:21culture event?

59:22So the ones that we've heard about through the Culture Plan were noise control, sign,

59:26and skateboarding.

59:30And so those are the ones that we've had conversations with bylaw about.

59:35And we would be relying on the community to let us know if there are, where they're finding,

59:45we did have a conversation today about parking limits with representatives of the music community.

59:52Parking for gigs and having to move their car every couple of hours that is an issue.

59:58So as community identifies those limitations, we can address them with.

1:00:07The thing is, we can address them with our bylaw friends.

1:00:10The thing is bylaw, there is a schedule of bylaw reviews and updates.

1:00:18Yeah.

1:00:18And so we can look at that schedule and see if there's anything that's interesting impact.

1:00:25We can't necessarily recommend bylaws being changed.

1:00:30There is a process beyond that.

1:00:33We can draw awareness to this bylaw does this thing.

1:00:38But it's having this adverse fact over here.

1:00:41I don't want to say I'm interested in looking at those bylaws, but if there are like by year by year.

1:00:46And it's like not like 30,000 of them.

1:00:49Yeah, no, I think they're listed on WALF.CA actually.

1:01:00Any other reflection on bylaws policies?

1:01:05Next slide, Winnie.

1:01:09Eliminate barriers to participation in culture.

1:01:12So develop and expand subsidy programs, rush ticket arrangements and free admission opportunities.

1:01:18Which has not, we haven't initiated yet, so it's pending.

1:01:22I have it as a low priority.

1:01:25Develop culture programming in neighborhoods where there's a deficiency in culture spaces and experiences.

1:01:31So we have been intentional in terms of our programming throughout the city.

1:01:36So that's in progress.

1:01:37I've identified it as media because we will continue to carry on with what we started.

1:01:44Employee principles of universal design, technology aids and accommodations to engage artists and

1:01:49audience members with disabilities.

1:01:52So we have incorporated universal design, tech aids and accommodations in the new Civic Museum

1:01:57renovations.

1:01:59It's in progress.

1:02:00I've identified it as a medium priority.

1:02:03And work with the WALF Transit and WALF Active Transportation Network to encourage and incentivize

1:02:09use of public transportation by keying and walking to culture activities.

1:02:14Haven't advanced that yet.

1:02:15It's pending and I can change that priority to media to make it consistent with where

1:02:21it's represented earlier.

1:02:23So any thoughts on those?

1:02:28The first one could be pushed to also priority medium.

1:02:33Is that a huge barrier for a lot of people, especially people that need it the most?

1:02:39So we're interested.

1:02:43I think Riverrun Center has actually introduced a pay what you can for some shows or a scale pay.

1:02:49So yeah, I mean, we can look at that online and start there.

1:02:57Anything else on that?

1:02:59Is there anything like a mental barrier?

1:03:04Like the make things?

1:03:06Yeah, I feel like, um, yeah, the mental barrier.

1:03:12When it's in your head, right?

1:03:15I mean, it's not here, but I just feel like this is where I can just throw these things out.

1:03:19Okay.

1:03:22I'll speak for my people.

1:03:25That makes sense.

1:03:27The greatest barrier that we have is mental.

1:03:34I feel like to a large extent, even if it has to be to pay, they probably do my pay.

1:03:42Or rather, they pay or they pay going to a place like Toronto or go far to go to teach now.

1:03:48You know, so I don't know.

1:03:50I mean, it's not here.

1:03:51What just me three not there.

1:03:52But there's also something called a mental barrier that just stands in the way of getting involved in the city and the cultural events.

1:04:02So I don't know that's not supposed to be, I don't know, just thought to have that there.

1:04:07Maybe eventually we'll get back to it.

1:04:09But there's a mental barrier.

1:04:13I know how I have idea as to how it can be addressed.

1:04:16You know, but that would probably come up later on.

1:04:19Yeah.

1:04:19If you don't care.

1:04:20Yeah.

1:04:21Yeah, let's I've made a note for it.

1:04:22So when we're doing our core plan, our strategic planning, we can address that.

1:04:27Yeah.

1:04:27So we're going to ratchet that up to medium.

1:04:29Yeah.

1:04:29Yeah.

1:04:30Done.

1:04:36Sorry for the third one.

1:04:39Accommodations for people with disabilities.

1:04:45Like I was an autistic person myself.

1:04:48I find that there's like,

1:04:51like back home, like there's a lot of like

1:04:54support and like stuff for people like this autism.

1:04:58But like, I don't know, having stuff like for cultural events,

1:05:02specifically, and also museums and stuff, but they're better about it.

1:05:06But like, yeah, culture, cultural events,

1:05:10having stuff like sensory maps is not a thing that's often available, but would be so helpful.

1:05:16And stuff like that.

1:05:19Like I have never been to any cultural event in Guelph because I'm autistic and I don't have a sensory map.

1:05:24So I'm not able to go because I just don't, I can't predict it enough.

1:05:29I don't know what type of stimulus it's going to be.

1:05:31I can't find information on what exactly it's going to be like.

1:05:36So that's just my two cents.

1:05:38And there are organizations in Guelph.

1:05:42I don't know their insoles, which are on my head.

1:05:45And also like people that socialize and create sensory maps and support maps.

1:05:53That would be helpful.

1:05:59Thanks for that.

1:06:02Okay, thoughts on new themes?

1:06:05All right.

1:06:06What are you next slide?

1:06:10Address gentrification of Guelph and the resulting culture drain.

1:06:14Let's just do that.

1:06:16I want to have a conversation about this.

1:06:18Consider artists and culture workers when setting advocacy for affordable housing and

1:06:22poverty reduction strategies.

1:06:25Advocate for basic income opportunities for artists and culture workers.

1:06:29And study successful models in other communities for affordable access to housing and creative spaces.

1:06:35So we have done some initial research in models for work, live studios.

1:06:44So we've looked at some models and that's where it has ended in terms of the advancement of this.

1:06:53I don't really know what to do with this one.

1:06:54So I'm turning to you.

1:06:57What does advancing this school look like?

1:07:02That's a good question.

1:07:17I'm going to ramble for a little bit.

1:07:19For the number one, artists and culture workers when advocating for affordable housing,

1:07:24poverty reduction strategies.

1:07:26I don't think I've ever heard in the conversation around affordable housing,

1:07:32arts and artists mentioned.

1:07:35And I know that the city doesn't necessarily build housing, but even if there was,

1:07:40if we wanted to be advocating for like 25%,

1:07:47like when there's affordable housing development, we should be prioritizing artist participation.

1:07:53Like, or even 10% or 1%.

1:08:00I don't know how the city will advance that unless there's some kind of either incentive

1:08:08or threshold that is in like probably the public discourse.

1:08:27Yeah, I'm not sure.

1:08:29I'll just throw this out there just a scenario and why this is really important, right?

1:08:33Without mentioning the name of anything.

1:08:36So something happened and I mean, I do things with some dancers.

1:08:44So there was an event that we went for, we were like eight people.

1:08:50They came for rehearsals back and forth.

1:08:53You know, people don't do things for money all the time.

1:08:56But I mean, just for the bar trestling needs to look at these things.

1:09:01And a check was sent to me for the group.

1:09:06And then in the check was 50 bucks for like eight people.

1:09:12And I just felt for, in fact, I held onto the check.

1:09:17The check is still there.

1:09:18Don't cash it.

1:09:19I couldn't even tell the people I had 50 bucks.

1:09:22It was better.

1:09:23I didn't tell them at all.

1:09:28You know, because for me and for them, eventually I had to tell some of them.

1:09:33It was just like insulting.

1:09:35Here's your six dollars.

1:09:39You know, it's not always about the money.

1:09:41Sometimes better do it freely.

1:09:43You know, it's volunteer, you know.

1:09:44So I'm just saying that to say that this is a very crucial like point raised.

1:09:51Because I just feel that is honestly killing the initiatives and the interesting culture

1:09:59and creativity.

1:10:00So please, I don't know what you have to say about this, but you have to speak to it

1:10:04because it's really high.

1:10:10Is there, do we have data around numbers of artists?

1:10:16Like in population, we're also 140, 130,000 people right now.

1:10:23Do we have any percentage data of like, these are the representation of artists?

1:10:32Well, can you foundation vital signs?

1:10:36You might have something to vital signs.

1:10:38Yeah.

1:10:39And I don't know the sense.

1:10:41I can't remember the senses as.

1:10:45It's fine.

1:10:46I see that.

1:10:52Because then we could be advocating for based on percentage of population.

1:10:58Artists actually are.

1:11:04And then sorry, I'm just going to take over for a second.

1:11:07But that advocate for basic income opportunities for artists and culture workers.

1:11:11Does everything that this department does pay living wage and I know city is not a

1:11:20city is not a living wage employer.

1:11:23I don't know.

1:11:23But does everything this department does?

1:11:26We pay artists, we pay always pay artists fees or car that or better.

1:11:33Yeah.

1:11:34But then anyone classed as an arts and culture worker who's not like a creator.

1:11:41We're like, we're hiring just like men and wage staff to support a culture event.

1:11:48That kind of like, we could be working to improve just that one line by trying to everything

1:11:53this department does is doing.

1:11:56Yeah.

1:11:56What is the living wage?

1:11:572130.

1:11:58Yeah.

1:11:59So I would say we're meeting.

1:12:01Okay.

1:12:01That yeah.

1:12:17The third one study successful models in other communities for affordable access to housing and

1:12:22creative spaces.

1:12:24So you have initiated research, right?

1:12:26Mm hmm.

1:12:27Yeah.

1:12:28And in theory, that's going to tell us that here's the best way you can retain your artists in your

1:12:33community because I think that's the question, right?

1:12:36Yeah.

1:12:36How do we retain the artists in the community when and ideally then that brings us to some kind of

1:12:49either policy shift or something or budget requests for a program that is the dream say would be

1:12:57the arts and culture department has a program that subsidizes artists

1:13:04and their living arrangements because we recognize the value of your participation

1:13:10in the community as a stop gap until there's affordable housing everywhere.

1:13:14Yeah.

1:13:15Which like, so I would like to see like a program like that redeveloped.

1:13:21But when it's hard for me to envision it when we have like an artist in residence that's a

1:13:27$10,000 program.

1:13:28Mm hmm.

1:13:29That's what we have.

1:13:30So it's like we still need to like dream of these things even in this austerity structure.

1:13:38And this plan was meant to be aspirational.

1:13:40Yeah.

1:13:40All right.

1:13:40Stuff.

1:13:41Yeah.

1:13:42So if as there's research that that could give people things to advocate for.

1:13:49So I'm still good with that thing at a medium.

1:13:53So we'll continue to, you know, one of the things that I think about is that we have

1:13:59colleagues in intergovernmental affairs that are working on

1:14:03affordable housing and poverty reduction and we haven't had a conversation.

1:14:07So that's maybe a place to start to remember and to ask their advice on it.

1:14:13Well, to see what data they have and then ask their advice on how to.

1:14:21Question that kind of relates to the other issue on zoning.

1:14:25And I was just wondering if when there is affordable housing that's being built,

1:14:29is there artist friendly zoning?

1:14:31Like if we're moving towards like live works situation, you know, and if there were zoning

1:14:35that would prevent like using power tools for sculptors and like that, like.

1:14:40That's something we're going to have to ask.

1:14:42Yeah.

1:14:42Cool.

1:14:43Yeah.

1:14:45Next slide, Winnie.

1:14:50Improved communication.

1:14:51So that was between the city and culture, between cultural organizations and between

1:14:57cultural organizations in the community.

1:14:59So appoint manager, museum, culture.

1:15:01That's me as liaison with the culture sector.

1:15:04So that's been done.

1:15:07And I've because of that, I've put it as a low priority.

1:15:11Develop and maintain a digital wealth culture hub, including a collective cultured

1:15:15calendar supported by a marketing and promotion strategy.

1:15:19So we have initiated planning on that and we do have money in the year's budget to advance that.

1:15:24So it is in progress and I have indicated it is a high priority.

1:15:30Anything on there?

1:15:33I think that's super important.

1:15:36We know that when I, when I go away, when I travel and I'm trying to find

1:15:42some cultural events to attend wherever I'm going, it can be such a frustrating experience

1:15:50because there isn't anything that is a comprehensive umbrella.

1:15:54Yeah.

1:15:55And or if there is, it just pulls in people who have paid to be on that list or something.

1:16:02And so you're missing a lot of the cool stuff.

1:16:06Yeah.

1:16:07So yeah, I think that's, that's great.

1:16:10So, so this includes social media as well.

1:16:13There'll be a social media.

1:16:15That's very, yeah.

1:16:17I feel like I noticed that maybe for the first time, there was a promotion on the Instagram page

1:16:25because for my cream.

1:16:28Oh, right.

1:16:28Yeah.

1:16:28Yeah.

1:16:29Yeah.

1:16:29And I felt that was really good to see.

1:16:31Okay.

1:16:31That's good.

1:16:32Yeah.

1:16:32Because I feel like the social media presence is not there yet.

1:16:39Unlike I also, like I mentioned before, and it keeps coming back to me everywhere I go.

1:16:43I feel like culturally here also, it's more dominant that people, yeah,

1:16:50there are changes that I have seen in six years economically that has impacted on lots of things.

1:16:58And I feel like people will not play the game that they used to before now.

1:17:04I feel well-filed who typically will go searching for things for events.

1:17:11But when things get a little more economically demanding, you'll find it begins to fall to the

1:17:17background.

1:17:18And until those things start going to search for them, they'll just leave it alone.

1:17:22So I feel like it makes it very important that the social media has been more vibrant,

1:17:29like consistently engaging people for you to be able to continue to get their attention.

1:17:35So I think it's very crucial as well.

1:17:38Yeah.

1:17:38It's just something very important.

1:17:40Just not far with that.

1:17:45Just not far with that.

1:17:46About my point earlier, having accommodations and accessibility things on the Instagram,

1:17:53social media, and websites and all that is the most super important for a lot of people to look at myself.

1:18:02Yeah.

1:18:03For example, actually, no, I think you can get it.

1:18:11Question, how does that interface with the destination marketing?

1:18:17Looking at, I mean, then two calendars, are they going to like...

1:18:20We're talking about how we can partner on those because the gathering of the golf calendar is quite

1:18:25good.

1:18:26They should feed each other.

1:18:27They should.

1:18:28They still have something separate, but they feed each other, especially now with AI and such.

1:18:32Yeah.

1:18:32Like this has to be super dynamic.

1:18:35Yeah.

1:18:36Yeah.

1:18:36Like into other.

1:18:38And there's others too, the Gough Arts Council calendar.

1:18:41There's the Music Live.

1:18:43So we are doing that scan, but gathering golf calendar, that has, it looks like a good

1:18:52model that's maintained by the city already.

1:18:55And so, yeah.

1:18:56Okay.

1:18:57For its gathering golf, the CTA is initiated.

1:18:59The tourism.

1:19:00Yeah.

1:19:01All head golf.

1:19:06Next slide, Wendy.

1:19:09So I think what we'll do is maybe the next two slides together, I will go through them

1:19:16because they all deal with nurture collaboration in the culture sector.

1:19:19So established culture quarterly gatherings, which has been completed highly successful.

1:19:27Next one is in September.

1:19:29That's a medium priority.

1:19:31Strengthened relationships with arts and heritage related departments at local school

1:19:36boards and post-secondary institutions.

1:19:38We haven't initiated progress on that yet, but I do think it's important that we do.

1:19:44So that's pending and medium priority.

1:19:47Established relationships with equity deserving community groups.

1:19:51We continue to build relationships.

1:19:54It's in progress.

1:19:55It is a high priority.

1:19:57Support the development and growth of community engaged art initiatives.

1:20:02Artists, we are exhibition at the Civic Museum was an example of our work in that area

1:20:09for their engagement and opportunity through the artist residence program.

1:20:13So that's in progress.

1:20:14And I said it is a medium priority.

1:20:17Then if you flip the slide, Wendy, on to the others.

1:20:21And then creating coordinate culture familiarization, fam tours, facility staff,

1:20:27culture workers, tourism operators, and adjacent sector operators

1:20:31with the aim to develop culture champions in the city and the community.

1:20:35We haven't advanced that, but I am saying it's a medium priority.

1:20:40And we might actually do that in conjunction with the culture quarterly.

1:20:46So on those, are there any reflections in terms of collaboration within the culture sector?

1:21:02Hearing none, we can move on to a nurture club.

1:21:10Next one.

1:21:12Engage growing in diverse audiences.

1:21:14So shift programming approach from presenting diverse programs for traditional audiences

1:21:19to presenting programs which appeal to equity deserving audiences.

1:21:24An example of this was offering the reclaiming my shine workshop at the Civic Museum,

1:21:28specifically for Black women, Indigenous women and women in color.

1:21:33And so this is something that is in progress.

1:21:37And I've identified as a medium priority.

1:21:46So traditional audiences being white audiences.

1:21:49Traditional wealth audiences, yeah.

1:21:51So traditional people who go to the museum or the river red center.

1:21:57The example was given, there's a large, like in our community,

1:22:01consultation, there's a large South Asian population in wealth.

1:22:07And there are like world renowned South Asian artists.

1:22:12But we aren't programming them at the river red center because they don't appeal to the

1:22:17audience that typically buy tickets and so how do we, yeah.

1:22:20Well, even this weekend at Hillside, Hillside is amazing, right?

1:22:24And there's a wild diverse program.

1:22:28And the audience is still very white and facing.

1:22:32And yeah, some diversity, but like wealth.

1:22:35It was certainly was a representative of the number, like the percents of

1:22:42people in the lived here.

1:22:44So there's something that needs to be shifted.

1:22:50Okay. Next slide, Winnie.

1:22:54Foster collaboration between the culture sector and adjacent sectors.

1:22:58So work with all city departments to develop and support place making strategies.

1:23:03We are working, we are supporting the tourism department's way finding strategy.

1:23:07So that's in progress.

1:23:09Media priority.

1:23:11Work with active and tourism to develop culture experiencing packaging with hotels,

1:23:15restaurants, attractions and events.

1:23:18We haven't activated that yet.

1:23:20I am indicating it's a low priority at this time.

1:23:24Work with economic development tourism and equity deserving community groups to develop

1:23:29tourism marketing strategy targeted at equity deserving visitors.

1:23:34We haven't activated that.

1:23:38So it's pending.

1:23:39I've indicated as a low priority.

1:23:41I do think we have work to do to develop the product

1:23:45before we develop the packaging and the marketing.

1:23:48So that's why I've indicated low priority.

1:23:55Changes there.

1:23:59Next slide, Winnie.

1:24:02Power through the last like four slides here in the week.

1:24:05Foster collaboration between the culture sector and adjacent sectors.

1:24:09Again, I'll work with recreation to support the intersection of culture and sport.

1:24:13So we haven't advanced that yet.

1:24:17So I have indicated as a low priority.

1:24:20But if Guelph gets the more young couple, we'll move that up to media.

1:24:25Yeah, as well in place.

1:24:26Can we go back?

1:24:27Sorry, one slide.

1:24:28Yeah, can we go back when he went slide?

1:24:30Yeah, because that's all these are related to.

1:24:34The work with city departments to develop and support place making strategies.

1:24:39What does that look like?

1:24:41Well, I'm sorry.

1:24:42I'm thinking of St. George's Square.

1:24:46I don't think this like arts and culture really had to interface too much in

1:24:52St. George's Square and its end design, but maybe it did.

1:24:59There was so the interface was first through public art advisory committee in the fashion.

1:25:06And so PACT did provide advice and support on that.

1:25:12And then we have been kept in touch with the changes and the proposed design,

1:25:22although we didn't have an opportunity to influence design.

1:25:28But we do have an opportunity interface on the public art installations there,

1:25:33the fountain and anything else public art related that might happen there.

1:25:38Because I'm just wondering about like that, just that single blur could be a whole department's

1:25:45life work.

1:25:46Interference with like place making across the city.

1:25:49So it felt really big and just have it be like, oh, we're going to talk about a bit of wayfinding.

1:25:58St. George's Square could have been in there as a progress today.

1:26:01Actually, so in the report.

1:26:08For the tourism's wayfinding strategy that they're working on now, we have been invited to the table.

1:26:17And that would be similar to the crosswalks thing, where they were going to apply

1:26:23a good blank on it for the funding to do all of those visual.

1:26:27That's right.

1:26:29Yeah, the Bloomberg.

1:26:29So this is the part where you're getting more.

1:26:32Infiltration into other departments.

1:26:34Yeah.

1:26:34Okay.

1:26:34Yeah.

1:26:35Okay.

1:26:38That's all right.

1:26:39Thanks, June.

1:26:41Being advanced to slides.

1:26:43Yeah, I mean, thanks one more.

1:26:44Yeah.

1:26:45Development comprehensive recognition strategy.

1:26:48And this is to ensure the arts community, culture community feels seen and appreciated

1:26:55and recognized.

1:26:56So identify opportunities for recognition by city council.

1:27:01We haven't advanced that.

1:27:03I do have that as pending in a low priority, just because there's other staff.

1:27:08I developed social media strategy for broadly spotlighting cultural activities and achievements.

1:27:13So pending medium priority that will actually dovetail with the.

1:27:21The hub with community partners develop support or organize recognition events.

1:27:27And so there is right now community initiative to launch a recognition program for the arts

1:27:32in 2027.

1:27:34And so we are at that table and then just be present at culture activities.

1:27:39So we've listed a number of activities or presentations or places festivals that we

1:27:48have attended to be being more intentional about being out in the communities.

1:27:56Sure.

1:27:57And just a little bit of odd to that.

1:27:58It's okay.

1:27:59Also, I just like recently Nigerians and 12 had a small party and you have like 250 Nigerians.

1:28:10And I just thought to myself that it would have been good to have at some point, like

1:28:15some connection with those people.

1:28:17Because I mean, I remember that during most cultural festival, I was standing next to one

1:28:22of the dancers and there was the mayor on stage.

1:28:26He didn't know what the mayor was.

1:28:29And I just thought that this is just goes to show how disconnected these people are.

1:28:33You know, so being aware of there are big events like this and there are also other

1:28:40cultural groups that are doing things.

1:28:43So having a time to show up someday and just say thank you for being here.

1:28:47Two minutes conversation goes along with, oh, that's from the city.

1:28:50You know, I feel that just very practical ways of connecting.

1:28:55With those people, I'm making them feel more sane and hurt.

1:29:00You know, just just a thought.

1:29:01Great suggestion.

1:29:03And I guess the suggestion back is like invite us.

1:29:08Yeah, yeah.

1:29:09I mean, I feel like, yeah, get it to know like there has to know what's going on.

1:29:12Yeah.

1:29:13Definitely would have the lead to being invited, you know, know that point.

1:29:18Yeah.

1:29:18Just something that you're thinking about.

1:29:22I feel like that's another, I think that's another thing.

1:29:26Exactly.

1:29:26And like where like the labor falls on communities that like, I don't know,

1:29:32the labor falls on to the communities instead of the city reaching out.

1:29:36If that makes sense and doing that labor, where I feel like, yeah, these major events,

1:29:42of course, are given, of course, but to like it would mean a lot to like, yeah, just like

1:29:48show up and do the labor to find the places.

1:29:53And then being present at cultural activity or cultural activities.

1:29:57I feel like another great resource on this was like, it's like, again, are not shamed.

1:30:03So, and has a lot to say about everything that we've just covered like so much to say.

1:30:14And from like perspectives that are so important and not heard enough.

1:30:19And they are constantly throwing events.

1:30:21So, yeah, having, yeah, I mean, there would be very important.

1:30:30I'm not sure if there's a way of doing this or whether this is done.

1:30:38But I think that what you were speaking of events within the community are events within

1:30:48the various wards of the community. And I think it's a great thing for counselors

1:30:55to connect up because those are their constituents, you know, even more so than a city staff person.

1:31:04Development of that community within the ward system makes a lot of sense to me.

1:31:10And I've been to a couple of cultural events with counselors as guests of counselors.

1:31:17And it's always a really wonderful, they are always welcomed wonderfully as, you know,

1:31:28taking an interest in their constituents and in their community.

1:31:32So I don't know if that's something that's part of a counselor's job description or

1:31:38not, or whether that's something that, you know, a little encouragement.

1:31:44Yeah, as a way to, you know, to the community. Anything else?

1:31:56This is a great question. So, like, all those cultural activities, like, those are initiated

1:32:03by different organizations, other than City of Gold, right? Yeah.

1:32:08City of Gold just go, like, as they...

1:32:12Being intentional to be out in the community and experiencing those connected.

1:32:24Anything further on recognition? Winnie, next.

1:32:30Next slide. Identifying support opportunities to seek designations. So this is designations like

1:32:38from time to time it's come up that we should seek music city

1:32:41designation through UNESCO, London has that. So at this point in the short term, we said we would

1:32:48research designation opportunities. And so we haven't activated that yet, but we will.

1:32:54I have a pending low priority. It's we're in the research phase. The longer term plan talks

1:33:01about actually seeking the designations. Next slide.

1:33:10Stretch embrace Gwell Spicentendium in 2027 as an opportunity to commemorate heritage

1:33:16and inspire collective community aspirations through culture.

1:33:19So our short term objective with community presents celebratory and reflective culture

1:33:24programming. We do have a community working group that has been initiated and we'll start

1:33:28meeting in September. So that is in progress. High priority.

1:33:35Next slide.

1:33:39Consider incorporating city own culture, archival, and heritage artifacts into public

1:33:44display for adaptive reuse of place making. This was a goal that came out of council when

1:33:51they were approving our plan as the status really centered on the city hall former city

1:33:58called clock, which is in storage right now. So we are exploring the relocation and reinstallation

1:34:04of that clock as part of the bicentennial. We've done an initial assessment.

1:34:10The work on it is going to be budget dependent. So it's in progress. And I think it's in

1:34:18this at the last one. It is. So thank you for the great input and reflections on this. And I

1:34:29think there were two proposed motions, one to accept the report, the progress report. Was there one

1:34:38about priorities? Yeah, I think. Yeah.

1:34:45So do you like to move the first motion? Yeah. The committee received a culture plan

1:34:583030 progress report for the motion. If you're not seconded, sure.

1:35:05So everyone agrees? Anyone disagree? Okay, so the motion get it. And second on the committee approved

1:35:192025 and 2026 culture plan. There it is. Julia. Sure. Okay. So the motion get it.

1:35:35So the next agenda is like chair and a step announcement. I don't have any announcement.

1:35:44Do you have any announcement? So I just I will talk just briefly about the St. Georgia Square

1:35:51redevelopment Council. If you work following Council's decision, there is a proposed design

1:35:59for St. Georgia Square that Council was considering. A few things came up during

1:36:04that discussion about the family fountain in St. Georgia Square. It was an issue that the

1:36:11Public Art Advisory Committee, a former Public Art Advisory Committee had advised on. And that

1:36:17influenced decisions about what to do with the fountain when they redesign that square.

1:36:24There are within Council deliberations. There is still question about whether there can be changes

1:36:33to the footprint of the lower basin, the materiality of the basin, and if there is something we can do

1:36:41within that basin for the off season when the fountain looks not as attractive as it does

1:36:47when there's water in it. And so I just wanted to let to make you aware that we are involved in

1:36:53those conversations. The issue will be coming back to Council. We are talking to the original

1:36:59members of the original group that donated the fountain and so and researching what the

1:37:05artist agreement was. So just wanted you to be aware because that's in the news that we are

1:37:12engaged in that. Thank you. So we have covered everything in the to this meeting agenda and

1:37:21now it's time to adjourn the meeting. So would anyone like to move the like move the meeting?

1:37:30Anyone like to second it?

1:37:38So after the meeting we are adjourned at

1:37:416.40 and the next meeting is on September 25th, 25th, the 25th at 5 p.m. and yeah so there will

1:37:52be no meeting next month. Thank you, Riyadh. Thanks everyone. Thank you. It's Patlin and Starlin.

1:38:03I'm Winnie. Thank you. Thanks. I really mean you. Timmy, when does the same church's square

1:38:09stuff come?