Culture Counts: A Cultural Manifesto for 2021

Culture Counts are drafting a crowd-sourced Cultural Manifesto; we’re planning to use this to encourage political parties to make good decisions about cultural policy in their own manifestos for the upcoming Scottish Parliamentary Elections in May 2021.

We're running two Manifesto Events for anyone involved in the cultural sector (arts, screen, heritage & creative industries). You can book to attend both days. You can also choose to be part of specifc 'Strands' of the meetings, rather than be on Zoom for the full day. Whatever best suits your availability, and interests. (Zoom links are sent the day before the event for security reasons.)

Based on the information we gather we’ll draft the Cultural Manifesto in early October and if you’ve participated at all you’ll get the opportunity to give us feedback and to make any final edits.

We know that a lot can happen in a short space of time, so in December we’ll ask you again if you have any final Asks; which we’ll bring to the attention of political parties in early January.

Manifesto Event 1

Thursday 10th September 2020

Strand A 9:00am to 10:15am

• Strategy
• Diversity
• Fair Work
• Environment – Climate Change – Sustainability

Strand B 11:00am to 12:15pm

• Connectivity
• Europe
• Brexit**
• International

Strand C 1:00pm to 2:15pm

• Investment
• Level of investment
• Delivery of investment, roles and remit

Manifesto Event 2

Thursday 1st October 2020

Strand D 9:00am to 10:15am

• Education
• Primary Schools & Secondary Schools
• Further & Higher Education
• Apprenticeships & Skills

Strand E 11:00am – 12:15pm

• Access to Health Part 1
• Justice and Culture in Recovery & Prevention
• Access to wellbeing via the NHS & Public Health Scotland

Strand F 1:00pm – 2:15pm

• Access to Health Part 2
• Cultural Trusts & Local Authorities
• Third Sector
• Procurement

** Means devolved to UK Government, though Scotland can still take actions to mitigate against the impact of Brexit; by providing funds for Scotland to continue to participate in Creative Europe for example.

Any questions, email andy@culturecounts.scot

See you all then,

Culture Counts

You can feed into the Culture Counts Cultural Manifesto in a number of ways:

• Attend (zoom) Manifesto Events. Register on this page.
• Attend (zoom) Cross Party Group on Culture to take part in an open discussion about a Cultural Manifesto
• Complete our Ideas Submission form; ideas must be supported by either three individuals working/volunteering in the cultural sector or by three organisations operating partly or fully in the cultural sector