THE ACT Greens Spokesperson for Arts, Caroline Le Couteur, has today launched a “targeted arts package” she says will “address some of the holes in the Government’s existing support for the Arts in Canberra.” 

Ms Le Couteur praised the 2010 Loxton Review as having made some very “insightful observations and great recommendations” for the arts,  recommendations, she charged, that had been “left to spoil on the vine.”

With the end of Canberra Arts Marketing in 2008, she said, the Canberra arts community had been short-changed in the area of communication.

“The Greens,” she went on, “will commit $1 million over 4 years to the provision of communications and marketing services to the Canberra Arts community.”

That package will include:

an arts portal that will provide a one-stop-shop for arts information in and around Canberra; a regularly updated and comprehensive ‘Arts Diary’ to allow the public to stay abreast of what’s on and help the arts community to avoid clashes; and

a comprehensive list of arts venues and services for hire around Canberra.

The Greens arts policy also includes investigating extending the Government’s casual public liability insurance scheme,  $200,000 to fund extra grants for local artists to design and fabricate a series of creative and unique bike racks for installation around the city.

Full details can be found at: http://act.greens.org.au/content/arts-1