Sustaining Culture: The Role of Performing Arts Centres is a joint research project with Griffith University, The Arts Centre, Sydney Opera House, The Adelaide Festival Centre and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
What role do performing arts centres play in sustaining culture?
The research aims to develop and evaluate methods of identifying, describing and measuring the impacts of Performing Arts Centres' creative entrepreneurship. To this end the project will answer four main questions:
How do performing arts centres foster creative innovation in programming, content and practice?
How can the value of cultural participation, cultural goods and cultural institutions be measured?
How are performing arts centres able to contribute to sustainable, tolerant creative communities / societies?
How can the value of performing arts centres' contributions be communicated to governments, business, and the wider public?
The project has successfully secured funding from the Australian Research Council and research has commenced.
The project already has a number of resources of interest to both academics and industry.
The project brochure incorporating broad analysis / discussion of the concepts (PDF format, 833 KB)
