Creative Economy Workgroup
Creative Economy Workgroup of California
Members of the public are welcome to attend in person:
El Teatro Campesino
705 Fourth Street
San Juan Bautista, CA, 95045
HOW TO ACCESS THE MEETING VIA ZOOM
(PUBLIC COMMENT ONLY)
The meeting will be virtually accessible for a brief window of time, from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m., for the public comment agenda item only. Members of the public who wish to be present for the entire slate of the meeting’s agenda must attend in person.
When: Oct 15, 2024 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: CA Creative Economy Workgroup – Public Comment
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HOW TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT
The Creative Economy Workgroup accepts comments from the public at its business meetings. Live comments will be accepted between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on location and via Zoom, with a meeting access link provided on the CEW webpage.
A form is also provided as a method to collect written public comment for the October 15 meeting for those who wish to contribute their thoughts but are unable to attend in person or virtually.
Written comments may be submitted in advance of the meeting and up until to two business days after the meeting’s end. The form will close for responses at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 17.
All submitted comments will be distributed to CEW members. Comments submitted before 9 a.m. on Friday, October 11, will be submitted to the group before convening; all others will be supplied after the scheduled meeting time. All submitted comments will also be entered into the official record of the meeting as part of the meeting minutes/notes. Public comment may be submitted anonymously if desired.
Click here to submit a written public comment.
PUBLIC COMMENT POLICY
The California Arts Council is committed to creating a culture of trust and transparency with members of California’s arts and culture community. We have created a public comment policy as a tool to establish community agreements to support the safety of all community participants.
Spoken or written public comment is intended to address the work of the Creative Economy Workgroup and the California Arts Council agency only. Community members should not directly respond to their fellow commenters; doing so may result in intervention and redirection by the CEW Chair.
The creative economy in California is an intertwined and generative ecosystem that adds exponential value to our state’s creative, cultural, and business economies in a way that fosters income generation, job creation and innovation. Using an equity lens, the Creative Economy Workgroup (CEW) responds to the ideas, strengths and needs of our communities that reaches and includes historically marginalized communities.
Established in last year’s budget, the CEW is tasked with developing a strategic plan which will conduct a comparative analysis with other jurisdictions, evaluate existing financing models and government initiatives, identify opportunities for educational programs as well as earn and learn job training employment, detail the geographic areas with the least amount of access or opportunity for a creative economy, and analyze existing initiatives and projects, including the role that local governments can play in creating a stronger creative economy. The strategic plan is due to the Legislature by June 30, 2025.
Purpose statement for workgroup members:
- Our lived experience as members of the CEW includes participation in and the leadership of the countless forms of artistic expression found throughout the state.
- We are focused on retaining our arts and culture bearers and organizations in a healthy economy that is good for artists and arts-oriented business.
- Guiding our efforts is a strategy that provides attainable and ample opportunities for California’s artists to be more competitive nationally and internationally for the purposes of earning, learning, development, and forming important lasting relationships that will grow both the impact and sustainability of California’s creative ecosystem.
- October 15 (Central California)
- January 17 (Richmond – SF Bay Area)
*Dates and locations are subject to change.
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The Creative Futures Newsletter is a bi-weekly publication dedicated to sharing the foresight findings of the California Art Council’s Creative Economy Workgroup with its members and the public. Every two weeks, we will present recent signals — compelling stories that point to emerging possibilities of change — in the creative economy industry. Each newsletter will focus around a different theme as it relates to the creative economy.
ABOUT
Based upon the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), March 2024 Creative Economy Research Primer and Report, the creative economy typically includes in its definition, each state’s measurements of size, scope and impact. These are knowledge-based economic activities upon which “creative industries” are based.
- In California, we know that in 2022, the total value added from the Creative Economy was $290,287,025,000 and that Arts and Culture was 8% of the total gross state product (GSP) and that it provided 847,688 jobs.
