The City of Kelowna seeks to create a community that embraces and celebrates diversity, offers a variety of high-quality arts, culture and heritage and fosters innovation while attracting people to its workforce.
The 2020-25 draft of Kelowna91裸聊视频檚 is now published and city planners are asking for residents91裸聊视频 feedback on its principles, key themes, goals and draft strategies to ensure community participation is part of the process.
91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e been asking the community all along,91裸聊视频 Christine McWillis, cultural services manager for the City of Kelowna said. 91裸聊视频淭his is all about what the community has said.91裸聊视频
The process, McWillis said, started a year ago and was created based off the views and feedback of Kelowna citizens that participate in the arts and culture sector. The plan was released on Friday, July 19.
The draft strategies are divided into five categories: strategic investments, spaces, vitality, capacity and connections.
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Each topic has one to three goals that create the category91裸聊视频檚 structure and each goal revolves around ways to get the community more engaged in the arts and culture sector.
Some of these goals include how to increase funding opportunities, how Kelowna can spark interest in history of the Okanagan lands and honour the culture of Indigenous people and expand the role of youth in the creative sector.
91裸聊视频淚t gives the community a direction,91裸聊视频 she said, noting it guides how the city invests in the arts, culture and heritage sector.
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The brief survey is open until Aug. 5, and participants can enter to win a gift basket and theatre tickets to an upcoming show.
91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e been talking with a ton of people,91裸聊视频 McWillis said. 91裸聊视频淎 lot of people are very positive (about the plan).91裸聊视频
Kelowna91裸聊视频檚 first Cultural Plan (2012-17) was launched in 2012 to encourage and integrate local culture within all neighbourhoods of Kelowna.
As one of the important aspects of the city91裸聊视频檚 attractiveness, Kelowna 91裸聊视频渢ake(s) culture seriously and strive to weave it into all aspects of civic planning and life in Kelowna.91裸聊视频
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