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Cultural Resources Workgroup Meeting

Today’s Objectives

• Come to understanding of common goals

• Select nominations to Steering Committee

Goals Discussion

Cultural Resource Goal Summary

From Adopted Plans

Cultural Resource Goal Summary

From Blue Ridge Heritage Local Plans

Goals- All 5 Counties

• Historic Preservation• Cultural Preservation• Preserve Natural Resources

Goals- 4 out of the 5 Counties• Establish and promote events and festivals• Promote local artisans• Link cultural and historic sites• Increase cultural tourism• Preserve natural environment• Promote and preserve national forests & parks• Heritage museums• Rural mountain history• Preserve & restore historic sites• Promote small town culture and economy• Promote farmer’s market• Promote local food economy• Promote agri-tourism• Promote active local farming

Goals 3 out of the 5 counties

• Promote musical heritage• Create greenways to promote cultural tourism• Open space preservation• Engage and educate the local community• Preserve historic corridors

Goals from the WorkgroupVISION

• The region is locally and nationally recognized for its creative placemaking, unique historical resources and craft heritage and the creative economy is embraced as a cornerstone for the region.

Goals from the WorkgroupEducation, Advocacy, Awareness

• Would like to see more field trips for students that are based on embracing historical resources. This can help them to embrace their place and better understand who they are.

• Improve advocacy, involvement and engagement in cultural arts.

• Bring arts and culture curricula back to the K-12 classroom

• Create a state regional history museum in WNC

Goals from the WorkgroupArts & the Economy

• Community leaders recognize arts and culture as a key industry and provide support- creating the cornerstone for future growth in the industry

• Create an innovative model supporting the arts and culture industry that can be shared and recognized nationally

• Build a statistical inventory “Americans for the art’ for economic prosperity

Goals from the WorkgroupData based Policy Making

• Build a statistical inventory “Americans for the art” for economic prosperity

• Create “one voice” for the arts and culture community in WNC

• Research studies (such as Barret Value Study) to determine if people are actually inovled in/support arts and culture or if it is just something they say

Reality Check # 1

• One meeting in each county

• Open House Style• ‘Stations’ facilitated by

Workgroup and Project Team members

• Objective: – Introduce pubic to the

project – Get public feedback on

Goals & Objectives

Additional Discussion Points

• How do we message natural resources to the public?

• Cultural Resource metrics• Ideas for separate complimentary projects• Examples of places/projects that do/do not

exemplify the goals• Project advocacy

Summer Work session

• Groups fully integrated• Goal-centric• Alternatives modeling