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Measuring Progress

• More support for the arts in schools • Thriving contemporary art, film and music ecosystem
in the community
• More visual art celebrating our culture throughout
the community • Using our art to tell our own stories instead of others
telling it for us

Key Challenges And Concerns

• Broader issue in society of arts being devalued compared to ‘productive’ fields. Arts are not promoted as fields
for young people to flourish in
• Within strict funding guidelines, arts are hard to justify because their positive impact on wellbeing and culture are
not always tangible
• Our arts are being appropriated by outsiders to make money, taking away from their original purposes of
communicating and celebrating
• Lack of collaboration with artists from other Nations to create a thriving industry
• Tendency to push our young people into sports

Suggested Lead Partners

• Tourism Marketing • Deyohaha:ge (Indigenous • Woodland Cultural Centre • New and emerging
Committee Knowledge Centre) • Six Nations Tourism organizations

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019

SHORT Coordinate and promote efforts Tourism Marketing Committee meeting to coordinate art and tourism initiatives in the
(2019-2024) of local artists community, participation is growing.

Community Sign and Building Need a coordinated effort to integrate Haudenosaunee art into design of buildings,
Initiative to highlight art and create positive community messaging signs based on art. Six Nations Tourism Building is
MEDIUM language having more signage developed in language.
(2025-2029) Woodland Cultural Centre hosted the first Onkwehon:we Arts Festival in 2018.
Create more community arts
celebrations Expansion and/or alternatives in the community can create more access for members
and support for local artists.
Develop sponsorships for Less funding opportunities for students pursuing arts, film, music dance, drama, etc.
students in the arts Bursary program to be developed to support our young people looking to these fields.
LONG Build a multi-purpose centre to support arts, integrating music, film and dance
(2030-2039) studios, theatre. Possibility to integrate a full time marketplace so local artisans
Build a multi-purpose Arts can sell their work. Could be in partnership with education organizations to offer
Centre accredited classes. Currently, Gathering Place by the Grand emerging as a Performing
Arts Centre and Six Nations Marketplace creating space for local artisans. Proposal
created in 1980’s for “Arnie Jacobs Arts Centre” could form basis of new centre.

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