EC2026-0348

That with respect to Notice of Motion EC2026-0348, the following be adopted: BE IT RESOLVED that Council direct Administration to work, collaborate, and engage with a broad and diverse group of partners to develop a comprehensive strategy for arts, culture, and the creative economy, building on the foundation of the 2016 Cultural Plan, the 2024 Creative Economy Strategy for Calgary, and UpLook: An Economic Strategy for Calgary, and Living a Creative Life: an Arts Development Strategy for Calgary to: 1. Establish a clear, long-term cultural vision for Calgarys arts, music, culture, and creative economy, including definitions and scope, developed in close collaboration with key partners and industry experts. This vision will guide future investments, policy, partnerships, and strategies to support long-term growth and success; 2. Establish a crossdisciplinary advisory group of key partners and industry experts to guide the creation, development, and implementation of the comprehensive strategy. To reflect the full creative ecosystem, the advisory group should include organizations and entities of varying size, scale, and maturityranging from established institutions to innovative, smaller organizationsensuring diverse perspectives and practical, industryinformed advice. 3. Define clear, shared long-term objectives aligned with the approved cultural vision, including specific roles for arts, music, culture, and creative industries in economic diversification, talent attraction, tourism development, and community-building, while supporting collaboration and coordination across organizations to maximize collective impact; 4. Develop a clear framework to guide strategic capital investments in arts, music, culture and creative industries infrastructure, including prioritization criteria for maintenance and modernization of existing City and community assets. This is to include assessing redevelopment projects that integrate arts, music, culture, and creative industries and new facilities that address identified gaps, ensuring balance between large-scale and community-based organizations and between infrastructure renewal and new, innovative offerings; 5. Develop a clear framework to guide decision-making for recurring and predictable operating expenditures for arts, music, culture, and creative-industry organizations, ensuring long-term viability and enabling long-term planning; 6. Explore opportunities to expand access to arts, music, and culture across Calgarys neighbourhoods by supporting and funding community-led cultural programming and creative spaces, and identify any funding needs and gaps; 7. Ensure arts, music, and culture are intentionally integrated into downtown revitalization, economic development initiatives, major-event attraction, and growth planning, with a focus on enhancing Calgarys competitiveness, talent attraction, and ability to attract business investment; 8. Leverage partnerships with other orders of government, the private sector, philanthropic organizations, civic partners (including wholly owned subsidiaries), and community groups to advance shared initiatives; 9. Establish clear, measurable outcomes and performance indicators to track progress toward Calgarys arts, music, culture, and creative economy objectives, ensuring transparency and accountability; AND FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that Administration report back to Council with the proposed strategy and report no later than Q4 2027, including recommended policy tools, funding mechanisms, and implementation timelines and options, with semi-annual updates on progress against key deliverables to be provided to Council through the Community Development Standing Committee.