Program 5 Your Brisbane

Program 5 Your Brisbane

Your Brisbane

Program Goal

Brisbane is a vibrant 24 hour, seven day New World city with opportunities for all residents, workers and visitors to participate in cultural and recreational activities which foster inclusion and stronger communities.

Program Description

The social, cultural, environmental and economic wellbeing of our diverse community is critical to maintaining our current high standard of living.

The Your Brisbane Program ensures that everyone in Brisbane can access relevant community resources, services and facilities. Opportunities are created for residents to be active, informed and involved in the community.

The Your Brisbane Program includes provision of:

• city wide and locally focused festivals, events and activities which celebrate and strengthen our quality

of life and community spirit

• opportunities for residents to access information and learning, recreation and sport and culturalpursuits

• coordinated activities and services for 'high need' communities.

The Your Brisbane Program is implemented in partnership with other spheres of government, the community, and the business sector.

Officers will regularly review results against targets in program plans to ensure that the outcomes, services and projects budgeted for are delivered.

Program Outcomes and Financial Summary

Anticipated ProposedAnticipatedProposedAnticipated Proposed

Program Outcomes201112201213201112 201213 201112 201213

$000$000$000$000$000$000

ExpenseRevenueCapital

5.1Thriving Arts and Culture 15,126 15,209 795 775

5.2Libraries for an Informed 45,998 48,778 5,270 5,182 4,587 2,515

Community

5.3Active and Healthy Community 3,424 5,861 280 286

5.4Social Inclusion 16,394 15,698 855 905 1,622 4,220

5.5Well Managed Community 33,054 30,516 9,709 8,628 7,699 17,650

Facilities

5.6City Icons 8,183 9,656 4,364 5,630 86,525 50,497

122,179 125,718 21,273 21,406 100,433 74,881

Outcome5.1Thriving Arts and Culture

Outcome description

A community that is innovative, creative and provided with opportunities to actively participate in the cultural life of our diverse and vibrant city.

Where we are now

Brisbane is a creative city with diverse and accessible arts and cultural programs, signature city festivals and local celebrations.

Council celebrates the city’s history, and recognises that our cultural life reflects the changing nature of the city.

Council provides support to foster local festivals and participatory activities through programs and partnerships with local artists, community organisations, arts organisations and creative industries.

The Brisbane Powerhouse and the Museum of Brisbane are major facilities that provide opportunities for diverse community participation in cultural activities.

Where we want to be

Brisbane will be recognised as a regional, national and global city with a diverse and vibrant cultural life. Young and emerging as well as established creative workers will choose to live and work in Brisbane.

A wide range of exciting opportunities will be available in the arts and creative sectors which will attract visitors, new residents and creative entrepreneurs. Brisbane will be a cultural model for other world cities.

The city will integrate public and private spaces, places and cultural activities across the Central Business District(CBD) and suburbs to create an engaged and liveable city.

Council will be a leader and partner, working with a range of cultural and arts sectors across Brisbane's communities.

Strategy5.1.1Festivals and Events

Support for high quality and accessible CBD and suburban festivals celebrating Brisbane's diverse culture, arts and creativity.

Service5.1.1.1Festivals and Events

Festivals across Brisbane contribute to social, cultural and economic well-being, to benefit the whole community.

Festivals form an integral part of the city's cultural, community and creative life and are significant to our social fabric.

They:

• animate and enliven the city and suburbs

• celebrate and consolidate identity and a sense of community

• showcase local creativity and diversity

• generate employment for artists and arts workers

• stimulate local economies

• contribute to the city's profile.

To deliver certainty for our major festivals, triennial funding arrangements will be entered into with the organisers of the Signature City Festivals, Suburban Community Festivals, Multicultural Festivals and the Arts and Cultural Support recipients listed below.

SignatureCity Festivals offer worldclass entertainment right across the city. More than ever before, Council has worked to ensure that these festivals will appeal to residents in the suburbs.

They include:

• Major Brisbane Festival

• Queensland Music Festival (a biennial festival that is funded annually over two years)

• Brisbane International Film Festival

• Valley Fiesta.

Total $2,064,000

Suburban Community Festivals help the people of Brisbane celebrate and share their local communities. These festivals will illustrate the community spirit of Brisbane that is famous around the world. They include:

• 2 High Festival

• 4MBS Festival of Classics

• 4MBS Shakespeare on Oxford

• Acacia Ridge Festival - Party in the Park

• Algester Community Fun Day

• Backyard Bonanza

• Bayside Wynnum Spring Festival

• Brisbane Billycart Championships

• Brisbane Cabaret

• Brisbane Cheese Festival

• Caxton Street Seafood Festival

• Centenary Community

• Colourised Festival

• Crackerjack Festival

• Dance Fever

• Darra Festival

• Einbunpin

• First Contact – Sports and Cultural Festival

• Goldicott

• Grass Roots Music Festival

• Hamilton Festival

• Jamboree Celebration

• Kite Festival

• LanhamPark May Fair

• Lord Mayor's Christmas Carols

• Morningside

• Music by the Sea

• NundahVillage Festival

• Out of the Box

• Parkinson Neighbourhood Festival

• Peaks to Points

• Queensland Poetry Festival

• Sandgate Bluewater Festival

• Shakespeare by the Bay

• Sherwood Community

• Teneriffe Festival

• Three Saints Festival

• United Nations Day (Indooroopilly State High)

• Valley Jazz Festival

• West End Film Festival

• WynnumHarbour Halloween

• Wynnum Manly Jazz

Total $617,000

Multicultural Festivals give voice to the wonderfully diverse community that is Brisbane. With communities from all four corners of the globe, the Multicultural Festivals give Brisbane residents the opportunity to truly experience other cultures and come together as a city. These festivals include:

• Brisbane Chinese Cultural Festival

• Buddha's Birthday

• Eidfest

• Eritrean Festival

• French Festival

• Indian Bazaar

• Iranian New Year Festival (Nowruz Persian New Year Festival)

• Italian Week

• Hanukkah

• Maccabi Junior Festival

• Moorooka Festival

• New Farm Italian Festival

• Oktoberfest

• Paniyiri

• Polish Festival

• Sri Lankan Vesak Festival

• St Patrick's Day Parade

• Tartan Day

• The Parkinson Multicultural and Dragon Boat Festival

• Vietnamese Children's Moon Festival

• Vietnamese Tet

• Zillmere Multicultural.

Total $298,000

Arts and Cultural Support will provide Brisbane's cultural community the opportunity to entertain Brisbane residents with a series of events such as concerts, performances and festivals. They include:

• Brisbane Eisteddfod

• Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra

• Brisbane Writers' Festival

• Queensland Ballet

• Queensland Choir

• Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Total $166,000

Grand Total $3,145,000

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 3,240 3,145

Revenue

Projects201213201314 201415 201516

$000$000$000$000

Christmas TreeCapital

Expenses 65 65 65 65

Revenue

Indigenous Cultural EventsCapital

Expenses 250 250 250 250

Revenue

RSL ANZAC DayCapital

Expenses 15 30 30 15

Revenue

Strategy5.1.2Cultural Activities

Delivery of city wide arts, cultural and entertainment programs that contribute to a vibrant, creative city.

Service5.1.2.1City Entertainment

The objective of this service is to coordinate and deliver cultural, arts and entertainment programs in the city and suburbs. In doing so it contributes to the 'Inclusive and caring' and 'Connected and engaged communities' Citywide Outcomes in "Our Shared Vision: Living in Brisbane 2026".

This service coordinates and delivers high quality cultural, arts and entertainment programs across Brisbane's city and suburbs.

Concerts and other events are utilised to promote activation of alternative venues across the city and suburbs of Brisbane (such as small spaces and pivotal public spaces) and to showcase Brisbane's professional and emerging artists by providing public performance opportunities. The Bands in the Parks program delivers weekend performances in our parks enlivening our outdoor spaces.

Stylin' UP is a nationally renowned Indigenous creative arts development program delivered by Council in partnership with young people and the Indigenous community. The focus is on workshops in music, dance and song writing with positive outcomes for participants.

Through inclusive, free activities for all ages, the City Entertainment Program:

• supports opportunities for creativity and participation in cultural life by the community

• brings people together through high quality cultural and entertainment events in the city and suburbs

• maintains and develops partnerships and projects that create a culturally vibrant city

• supports emerging and established artists and fosters creative productions

• promotes positive community attitudes towards Brisbane's seniors, and encourages a supportive environment to foster an active lifestyle and connect with the community through the Seniors' Superstar, Lord Mayor's Seniors' Christmas Parties and Seniors' Week activities.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 3,361 3,340

Revenue 117 80

Projects201213201314 201415 201516

$000$000$000$000

Lord Mayor’s Senior Capital

Christmas Parties Expenses 200

Temporary VenueRevenue

Strategy5.1.3City History

To deliver and support a program of activities within the community and at the Museum of Brisbane that celebrates the history and culture of Brisbane.

Service5.1.3.1Museum of Brisbane Exhibitions and Community Programs

The Museum of Brisbane (MoB) has a changing exhibitions program that explores aspects of Brisbane's history and culture through social history, visual arts, craft and design.

The objective of this service is to present a challenging, entertaining and informative museum program focusing on Brisbane.

MoB involves the community in a conversation about Brisbane our city's values, people and place in the world. All MoB exhibitions are founded on a strong community based relationship. The exhibitions include the annual Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards.

MoB is also custodian of the City of Brisbane Art Collection.

With strong community involvement and partnerships, MoB delivers award winning exhibitions, encourages and supports knowledge sharing and enhances the cultural life of the city.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 2,498 2,399

Revenue

Service5.1.3.2Social History

Celebrating and acknowledging Brisbane's history is integral to understanding where we have come from and where we are heading.

This service:

• supports 30 sites and museums in Brisbane's Living Heritage Network including Customs House,

Newstead House and Fort Lytton. These promote and inform the public about Brisbane's heritage

• includes funding for the Lord Mayor's Helen Taylor Award for History.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 347 358

Revenue 7 7

Strategy5.1.4Community Cultural Development

Creating cultural and arts opportunities across the city and suburbs for Brisbane communities to actively participate in our creative city.

Service5.1.4.1Cultural Advocacy

This service allocates funding for the Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists' Fellowships, Creative Sparks Grants and professional development opportunities for the arts and cultural sectors.

Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists' Fellowships and Creative Sparks Grants enrich the creative life of Brisbane through developing the professional practice of local artists and cultural workers across the diverse community of Brisbane.

The projects supported are required to:

• develop new cultural practices

• provide professional development

• support and develop partnerships and networks.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 281 290

Revenue 103 106

Service5.1.4.2Creative City

This service includes community arts and cultural development activities that provide high quality engagement opportunities which aim to connect cultures, generations and lifestyles while strengthening community and enhancing cultural and arts activities throughout Brisbane.

The service aims to:

• create opportunities for families and friends to take part in cultural activities

• create cultural projects for local suburbs and neighbourhoods

• ensure that everyone has the chance to actively participate

• bring artists and suburban communities together.

It will achieve these objectives through:

• community cultural engagement to support accessible and sustainable opportunities for creative

participation

• communicating culture by highlighting, sharing and celebrating the diversity of Brisbane's community

through the development of writing, films, digital stories and other media

• cultural sector and industry support to local artists, organisations, business and government

• cultural leadership by collaborating with arts and cultural sector peers to develop and support

exemplary practice

• research, strategic planning, analysis and feedback.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 468 479

Revenue

Service5.1.4.3Brisbane Powerhouse

As the owner of the Brisbane Powerhouse, Council provides funding to ensure the development and promotion of leading arts performance that is accessible to the widest possible Brisbane audiences.

The Brisbane Powerhouse will continue to be a primary centre for live arts and contemporary performing arts and will continue to focus on encouraging broader community participation in these events.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 4,242 4,519

Revenue 568 582

Projects201213201314 201415 201516

$000$000$000$000

Powerhouse Car Park Capital

ImprovementsExpenses 150

Revenue

Outcome5.2Libraries for an Informed Community

Outcome description

Brisbane's libraries provide access to information and opportunities for learning, recreational reading and cultural activities. They are integral to a smartthinking, easyliving, worldclass city.

Where we are now

The Brisbane community is informed and opportunities for learning are provided through an extensive public library network attracting over six million visitors every year.

Lifelong learning activities, delivered in our libraries, enhance individuals' abilities to use the libraries to access services and participate fully in community life.

Where we want to be

Council's objective is that Brisbane residents will be eager lifelong learners who make the most ofthe

many pathways to learning and enjoy sharing their knowledge with each other.

Libraries will be vibrant hubs where people and local communities easily learn in a rich exchange of experience and ideas, connect with each other and the world in discussion and debate, relax on their own with a book, use technologies to informally create and distribute their own material and share information and activities.

Residents have the ability to participate from home or through our worldclass library network.

Strategy5.2.1Brisbane's Libraries

Libraries are local knowledge centres and great community centres. They are places to connect and

access information, learning, recreation and culture.

Service5.2.1.1Lending and Reference Services

The City of Brisbane library service operates and delivers services from 33 libraries and one mobile library. Information resources and services that are appropriate to the preferences, requirements and abilities of the community are provided through:

• loan access to books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, talking books and other emerging media materials

• onsite access to reference and learning materials including iPads

• provision of reference, research and study assistance

• loan access to materials in languages other than English

• interlibrary loan services to enable Brisbane residents to access the collections of other libraries in

Australia

• internet training and other online training for the community and groups

• outreach and activity programs to broaden and extend relevance of the library services to youth,

families and new residents.

Six libraries (Indooroopilly, Carindale, Garden City, Mt Coottha, Brisbane Square and Chermside) are open on Sundays across the city.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 19,651 20,052

Revenue 1,365 1,402

Projects201213201314 201415 201516

$000$000$000$000

Self Service EnhancementsCapital

Expenses 100 100 100 100

Revenue

Sunday Opening of Regional Capital

LibrariesExpenses 204 204 204 204

Revenue

Service5.2.1.2Maintain and Enhance Libraries

This service positions our libraries as community hubs to create multipurpose community centres developing an environment that provides social, cultural, recreational and educational services reflecting community needs.

This service includes maintenance of the 33 library branches and the mobile library to ensure they are vibrant, welcoming, comfortable and safe. Libraries accommodate over six million visits annually, with visitors now staying longer than ever before.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 11,876 14,026

Revenue

Projects201213201314 201415 201516

$000$000$000$000

Libraries Self-Checkout Capital 225 225 225 225

FacilitiesExpenses

Revenue

Library EnhancementsCapital 777 774 781 785

Expenses

Revenue

Library Refurbishment and Capital 1,313 2,340 1,328 3,099

RehabilitationExpenses

Revenue

Service5.2.1.3Preservation of City`s Historical Record

Activity within this service will:

• collect, manage, maintain and provide public access to the permanent records of Council in

accordance with the requirements of the Public Records Act 2002

• partner with the Museum of Brisbane to enhance the accessibility and relevance of the history of

Brisbane to the broader community and act as a repository for history groups' records, information and

data

• work with local history groups to assist with their collections and ensure that Council libraries remain a

focal point for community groups interested in the city's history.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 195 200

Revenue

Service5.2.1.4Outreach Programs

Ensuring community access to library services is the key objective of this service.

This service includes the delivery of library services to those unable to visit a library branch (the Home Library Service and Postage Service to the Blind). It also includes programs which increase library membership and effective use of the library by customers, community focused events, literacy and other reading and learning activities.

Production of hard copy customer communications such as membership information and translations into languages other than English is included.

The Lord Mayor's recent commitment to the Writers in Residence program will give library users the opportunity to meet authors and experience their working within the comfort of Brisbane's libraries. This will also increase appreciation of literature and Brisbane's library services as well as improving the education of our children.

OperatingAnticipatedProposed

201112 201213

$000$000

Expense 398 408

Revenue

Projects201213201314 201415 201516