STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Quality of Life, Arts & Culture
AGENDA DATE: April 10, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Arts and Culture
EXECUTIVE: M. Elizabeth Cedillo-Pereira
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SUBJECT
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Authorize and establish the FY 2024-25 Community Artists Program (CAP) and CAP Guidelines to provide artist services upon request by artists and non-profit organizations to teach, perform, and exhibit at host facilities in Dallas, to further the goals of the Dallas Cultural Plan 2018 and support cultural services in the City of Dallas - 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 Support Programs will be submitted 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 CAP provides artist services to Dallas communities by African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American (ALAANA) and other individual artists and non-profit organizations to teach, perform, and exhibit at host facilities in neighborhoods in the city of Dallas. CAP cultivates collaborations between artists and communities. Services are requested of CAP artists and organizations by the Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) on an as-needed basis. Any organization that is presenting an event that is free and open to the public in the City of Dallas may request a CAP service from the Office of Arts and Culture. This program was originally known as the Neighborhood Touring Program and has been a service of the OAC since the creation of the department in 1989.
The CAP goals are:
1. To provide opportunities for Dallas neighborhood residents and organizations to have greater access to the...
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