Arts, culture, libraries, and civic life

17 commitments from 7 parties, grouped by who published them.

Review and encourage program funding for arts and culture.↗
Build an arts and culture page on vancouver.ca including promotion of all event listings.↗↗
Create and publish an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca.↗↗
Provide incentives for retention and upgrading of creative spaces and disincentives for their demolition.↗
Pursue a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for City-owned creative space, including repurposing unused or underutilized properties such as Park Board and School Board facilities.↗
Encourage minimum space requirements for cultural amenities in densifying neighbourhoods.↗
Examine how Vancouver's civic theatres could be made more suitable and affordable for the local arts community.↗
Keep Community Centres and other Park Board facilities affordable for the arts community.↗

Create a new small cultural venue licence category with risk-based safety requirements, a compliance-first approach, a dedicated Venue Navigator, and a code-compliance grant stream for fire and building safety upgrades.↗
Establish a Cultural Space Security Program including an annual cultural space inventory, a no-net-loss test for redevelopment, expanded accessibility and safety upgrade grants, and a requirement that major rezonings and public land projects consider cultural production space.↗
Create an independent, sector-led Vancouver Arts and Culture Council governed by a board with arts, culture, equity, and Indigenous expertise to adjudicate civic arts grants through peer assessment, while City Council retains authority over the overall funding envelope and policy direction.↗

Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee to establish a Cultural Land Trust to increase long-term security of tenure for cultural and arts spaces in BC through ownership and stewardship of land and buildings.↗
Increase funding, hours, and wages at Vancouver Public Library, support library workers, and push for library worker representation on the VPL board.↗

Adequately fund Vancouver's public libraries, providing sufficient resources for safe workplaces and opening more branches on Sundays.↗

Establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, providing studio resources and cutting property taxes in half for artists.↗