Post on 15-Dec-2015
Stavanger Innovation Summit, “Transforming City Regions”, June 2009
BAILIE Dr. LIZ CAMERON M.A, D.UnivChair – Culture & Sport Glasgow, Vice Chair – Glasgow City Marketing Bureau
“GLASGOW – SECOND CLASS
CITY”
“NO VISION IN THE FACE OF
URBAN DEVASTATION”
Where We Were
‘Developing The Potential’McKinsey Report 1984
‘Economic Value Of Arts’Policy Studies Institute 1988
Early Interventions
1983 1983 1988
Burrell Glasgow’s Glasgow Garden
Collection Miles Better Festival
“GLASGOW’S NO MEAN CITY ANYMORE”
Wall St Journal“THE UGLY
DUCKLING OF EUROPE HAS
TURNED INTO A SWAN”
Los Angeles Herald
Impact & Legacy
• Capacity of cultural sector expanded
• New creative opportunities unlocked
• International contacts expanded
• New arts organisations created
• New venues created
Impact & Legacy
Impact & Legacy : Infrastructure
1990 1990 1996
Tramway Glasgow Royal Gallery of
Concert Hall Modern Art
Impact & Legacy : Events
1994 1996 1999
Celtic
Connections
Festival of Visual Arts
UK City of Architecture &
Design
2006 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Impact & Legacy : Infrastructure
Impact & Legacy : Infrastructure 2006 City Halls
• Glasgow attracts 2.8 million visitors per annum who generate £700 million for the local economy.
• 31,000 people were employed in tourism related activities in Glasgow throughout 2005 and 2006, representing 17% of the total tourism workforce in Scotland.
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum is Scotland’s most popular visitor attraction and the 14th most visited museum in the world.
Where We Are
Dedicated Delivery and Audience Development
Supporting the infrastructure and developing audience
Dedicated Business Facilities
Film City at former Govan Town Hall, Wasps at the Briggait, Trongate 103,
new home for the Visual Arts in the Merchant City opens April 2009
Tailored Business Development and Training Support…
Glasgow Film Fund, Glasgow Design, Internationalisation
Programmes, Trade Development, Targeting Technology
Major Themed Developments
Digital Media Campus, City Science Campus, Visual Arts Quarter
Developing Creative & Cultural Industries
2007 Culture and Sport Glasgow formed
10 – year Tourism Strategy launch
2008 UNESCO City of Music
2009 Trongate 103
2011 Riverside Museum
2012 NISA and Velodrome
Arena at SECC
“Brimming with style and culture,
Scotland’s biggest city is a
revelation.”
As Others See Us
Stavanger Innovation Summit, “Transforming City Regions”, June 2009
BAILIE Dr. LIZ CAMERON M.A, D.UnivChair – Culture & Sport Glasgow, Vice Chair – Glasgow City Marketing Bureau