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Plan for Western Sydney Arts, Culture and Creative Industries: 2025 - 2028
25 July 2025
Plan for Western Sydney Arts, Culture and Creative Industries: 2025-2028 aims to unleash the region’s untapped potential and chart a path for sustainable sector growth. Over the next 3 years, the plan will start to redress the inequity that has plagued Western Sydney for years, prioritise First Nations creative innovation, and leverage the extraordinary vitality of the Western Sydney festival sector.
Unleashing Creativity - Strategies for Growing Western Sydney’s Creative Industries
21st November 2024
Western Sydney’s creative industries are at a pivotal moment, facing both significant challenges and opportunities. As one of Australia’s most culturally diverse and rapidly growing regions, Western Sydney boasts a rich array of creative talent, innovative enterprises and a vibrant cultural scene. However, despite these strengths, the region has not received the same level of investment in its creative and cultural sectors as Eastern Sydney, leading to significant inequities in funding, infrastructure and resources that have restricted the success of Western Sydney’s creative industries sector. This report examines the current state of the region’s creative industries, highlights areas of potential and offers strategic recommendations to cultivate a thriving creative economy
Submission for Creative Communities – the NSW Government’s Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy
2023
The Federal Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive, provided a starting point for the NSW Government to create a state Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy. Western Sydney Creative contributed a submission that focused on advocating for the long-term sustainability of Western Sydney’s arts and cultural sector.
Submission for Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place - Federal Government’s National Cultural Policy
Western Sydney Creative submission to the Federal Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive focused on the critical area that women in their capacity as mothers, guardians, caregivers, leaders and workers have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and that their health, experiences at home, work and economic wellbeing have been negatively affected now and into the future. Further it considered the intersection of further disadvantages: low socio-economic status, ethnicity, class, race and religion are compounded especially for Indigenous, refugee, migrant, and ethnic minority women.
Joint Select Committee on Arts and Music Education and Training in New South Wales
24 July 2024
Western Sydney Creative’s Submission to Joint Select Committee on Arts and music Education Training in NSW focused on the Western Sydney Creative, a part of Western Sydney University, combines research expertise, thought provoking events, and advocacy onissues of importance to arts and culture in Western Sydney. The work Western Sydney Creative is guided by its ambition for a thriving and sustainable arts and culture sector.
