Election 2020 - Party Policies - Arts, Culture and Heritage
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- Promote improved communication and coordination between government ministries, funding agencies, local bodies, tangata whenua, community and other stakeholders involved in arts, culture and heritage.
- Support and promote the right of Māori to protect both traditional and contemporary Māori art and art forms via customary rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- Support strategies to ensure the production of quality Aotearoa New Zealand music, films and programmes by Aotearoa New Zealand composers, producers, directors and writers through innovative incentive programmes, Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission and NZ on Air.
- Recognise the value of community arts and community arts organisations through continued Creative Communities funding and national and local government support.
- Support the creation of a National Policy Statement for heritage under the Resource Management Act, requiring local authorities to place more weight on recognising and supporting heritage places in district plans.
- Read more here and here.
- Supported our artists and creatives and cultural and heritage organisations by providing target support to the sector to help them get back on their feet.
- Read more here.
- Remember New Zealand’s shared history and culture through events such as Treaty of Waitangi commemorations, protection of Taonga Tūturu, and Māori and Pasifika visual and performing arts.
- Ensure the legal and regulatory framework our creative industries operate under is fit for-purpose, fosters growth, and supports access to international markets.
- Increase the reach of Te Papa and other mobile exhibitions to provide more opportunities to access our cultural heritage outside of the major urban centres.
- Develop a nationwide, sector-specific strategy to enhance the creative industries and promote New Zealand to the world.
- Pilot a Creative Accelerator programme designed to assist young people to identify creative careers opportunities.
- Read more here.
- Guarantee sustainable and transparent funding for the arts
- Ensure that all New Zealanders have the opportunity to participate and to feel immersed in the arts and culture our country offers through making sure it is accessible
- Uphold the protection of culturally and historically significant places, buildings and churches.
- Promote and facilitate the development of New Zealand’s unique and dynamic arts industry in terms of trade and marketability.
- Support the protection of intellectual property
- Introduce a requirement for international streamers like Netflix and other international platforms with significant New Zealand subscriptions to contribute to the New Zealand production industry by commissioning local content production
- Provide funding to establish a New Zealand Jazz Orchestra
- Reduce the destructive impact of Building Legislation on New Zealand’s cultural heritage sites through developing a risk assessment approach to provide greater flexibility of compliance than is currently possible
- Secure the future of the historic Christchurch Arts Centre
- Provide funding support for Regional Heritage Museums
- Legislate to gain an equity share of future productions in recognition of either direct subsidies or tax breaks provided to be reinvested into New Zealand’s art and film industry
- Fund the New Zealand Wars Documentary Collection
- Fund specialist curriculum leaders to support schools to deliver on the Arts Curriculum throughout the compulsory school sector
- Work with local government to support regional art and historical spaces ensuring access to sustainable arts infrastructure
- Read more here.
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