Arts organisations play an important civic role, sustaining individuals and communities and helping make many places across the country more creative and vital places to live and work. Today we are launching an Inquiry which will cast a spotlight on the civic role of arts organisations.

We aspire through the Inquiry to increase awareness of the civic role that arts organisations play nationally and in their communities, develop an understanding of what constitutes ‘next practice’ and develop a movement of arts organisations committed to demonstrating it.

We are calling on arts, and other interested organisations, to get involved and help us to ensure that the full potential of arts organisations in promoting civic engagement and revitalising communities is realised. The first stage in the process is research and consultation and we invite you to visit the Inquiry website and join the conversation by, amongst other things, telling us what the civic role of arts and cultural organisations means to you and what needs to change in order for arts organisations to be able to fully embrace it?

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