Kingston Arts Council | Mission & Artistic Pilicy Policy

Mission Statement

Our aims and objectives are

To recognise and encourage all forms of artistic expressionReach out and nurture the next generation of artists

To support arts which are challenging, captivating and independent in spirit

To seek out new and different audiences

To encourage partnership working to achieve these aims

We will:

Speak up for the Arts Community in whatever forum
Trust and seek to be trusted by the Arts Community
Support local arts organisations, affiliated or not, and individuals in their artistic endeavours

Kingston Arts Council has received Strategic status in 2006 to represent the artistic community in the Royal Borough of Kingston. This means we have secured funding for 3 years to establish ourselves as leader and mentor for the arts, and have a unique opportunity to plan and develop our strategy and policy to promote the arts at the heart of Kingston life.

We believe that the arts have power to transform lives and to deliver opportunities for people who traditionally are not participants or make up audiences.

We will attempt to help local arts organisations thrive and not just survive; we will seek to have inclusion at the heart of our work, which includes cultural diversity, children and young people, as well as the kind of social exclusion that prevents people for accessing the arts.

We will encourage excellence and promote the highest possible standards throughout the various art forms and see to breakdown the boundaries that exist between arts and other disciplines.

We will regularly examine definitions of the arts to ensure we are open to current trends in emerging arts practices.

We will recognise that participation in the arts, whether performing, creating or just watching and listening, should be fun as well as an uplifting experience.

To these ends we will:

Actively support and encourage new projects that fulfil our mission statement.
We will source training for organisations and individuals where needs are identified.
We will assist in the management of events organised by other partner organisations.
We will consider a major event each year, whether in the form of a Festival, or seek to attract well-known performers in the form of a one-off professional event.

This approach will feed into our business planning over the next three years and will assist in mapping out our activities for the wider arts community in Kingston.

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Kingston Arts Council is supported by the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, and is a registered Charity No: 801085.
President: The Worshipful Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames,