Are you involved in arts and culture? Do you create it, promote it, deliver it, care for it, teach it?
If so, make your voice known in the city’s new cultural mapping project.
Organizers of the New Westminster Cultural Map have launched a survey designed to collect details about New Westminster’s cultural resources. It’s the first step in developing an interactive cultural map that’s designed to showcase the full scope of the city’s arts, culture and heritage community.
“We know that mapping cultural assets increases public appreciation, promotes tourism and builds community,” said Greg Magirescu, the city’s manager of arts and cultural development, in a press release. “The survey is an essential step to building an interactive map, and we encourage anyone involved in the creation, promotion, delivery or care of, or education about, culture to complete the survey and help build the map.”
The survey can be found online at http://hjlinnen.com/survey.
The survey will be open until Dec. 31, after which the creation of the map will begin.
The map will feature cultural assets in a variety of fields – venues, festivals, individuals, organizations, public art/monuments, heritage and stories.
The map is expected to be online, hosted by the City of New Westminster, in early 2014.
The map will be updated regularly and will be linked to community partner websites, as well as being promoted on social media.
The New Westminster Cultural Map is a partnership between the Arts Council of New Westminster, the City of New Westminster and Douglas College, with the financial support of the provincial B.C. Creative Communities grant.
Check out www.artscouncilnewwest.org for more details.
