Submitter
Submission id number: 964880
Submitter name:
Ruth Harvey
Organisation
Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust
Do you want to speak to Councillors at the hearings?
Yes
Supporting information
Submission
How are we doing? Is there anything you would like to tell us?
Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust (DFAT) thanks the Council for not proposing cuts to arts and culture funding in the city.
Dunedin City Council remains one of DFAT’s most critical partners, providing multiple sources of funding for our programmes; partnering in the pilot of Te Whare o Rukutia and the management of the Dunedin Community Gallery; and providing office space for our HQ free of charge. We also acknowledge the DCC’s vital role in supporting the wider arts and culture ecosystem of organisations, events and artists in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, who are essential to the health, wellbeing and social cohesion of the city’s communities, while also contributing significantly to the economic vitality and liveability of Dunedin.
We tautoko DCC’s steps towards co-governance with Māori, and call on the Council to continue to review its policies and practices from a co-governance, equity and anti-racist perspective, and to further embed co-governance and Matauranga Māori in the Council’s operations at all levels.
We love the improvements being made to the main street and think they will be transformative for the city. We support the Council’s investment in the completion of those improvements.
We also endorse the work being undertaken with Save Dunedin Live Music and other interested parties on a Live Music Action Plan. We encourage the Council to continue investing in that work and finding solutions to the challenges facing the sustainability of live music venues in this city; challenges which are partly due to weak regulation around sound proofing of residential buildings in the central city.
What other ideas should we be thinking about to include in future plans for our city?
Please see our attached submission letter for these ideas.