STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Quality of Life, Arts & Culture
AGENDA DATE: March 8, 2023
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Arts and Culture
EXECUTIVE: M. Elizabeth Cedillo-Pereira
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SUBJECT
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A resolution authorizing and establishing the Cultural Organizations Program and approving the program guidelines within the Office of Arts and Culture to support cultural services in the City of Dallas for FY 2023-24 - Financing: This action has no cost consideration to the City (see Fiscal Information)
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BACKGROUND
The updated Cultural Policy of the City of Dallas, adopted on November 28, 2018, provides that guidelines for the various Cultural Funding Programs will be submitted annually for review and approval of the City Council. This serves to affirm the artistic nature of services to be provided through these various cultural programs and to specify the review and selection process for cultural services.
The Cultural Organizations Program (COP) is the support program through which the Office of Arts and Culture contracts for a full season of cultural services with established non-profit organizations for a variety of cultural programs that include concerts, plays, exhibitions, performances, workshops and other cultural programming for the benefit of Dallas residents and visitors.
The FY 2023-24 COP guidelines are consistent with COP guidelines from previous fiscal years; the last major updates to these guidelines were made in FY 2019-20 to align with Dallas Cultural Plan 2018 priorities, including alignment to staff and board diversity goals, and resident panel evaluation of cultural programming in underserved neighborhoods around Dallas.
Major updates in the current proposed guidelines were considered and recommended by the Allocations Committee and the Arts and Culture Advisory Commission, with equity, one of the City's core values, as the lens:
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