Strategic Aims

ArtSound will be the leading community operated arts organisation in the ACT through the production, promotion and preservation of new and innovative arts outcomes. 

Production

ArtSound will use its resources, including member skills/experience and technology, to collaborate with ACT artists to produce enduring work.

ArtSound will also offer opportunities to artists to develop their skills in the production and promotion of their works.

Promotion

ArtSound will use its community position as well as strengths as a broadcaster to promote the work of ACT artists to the wider community and to reinforce Canberra’s reputation as an arts capital.

ArtSound will use its unique technology advantage and public access to build the profiles of individual artists (including those within underrepresented groups) and their work.

In addition to broadcasting, ArtSound will also support arts activities and live events within the Manuka Arts Centre. 

Preservation

ArtSound is dedicated to the preservation of arts created in the ACT, and to that end will progressively digitise its sound archives, including all historically significant work recorded by ACT artists.

The work of new artists will also be recorded and retained for future generations. In addition to work specifically created in collaboration with ArtSound, this will include the capture of concerts, live events, exhibitions and other appropriate arts activities.

Programming Aims

Here are ArtSound’s Programming Aims, adopted in 1999 and reviewed/revised in 2004, 2011, 2019, and 2024. This document stems from ArtSound’s Programming Philosophy as articulated in documentation that has formed the basis of licence applications in 1994 and 2000, and licence renewals in 2005, 2010, 2019, and 2024.

Here is an excerpt from the Aims, which can be read in full in the document attached below.

ArtSound aims to provide a mixture of music and spoken word
programming to its community of interest with objectives
encompassing specific areas.
These are:
* the broadcasting of quality music, primarily jazz, world,
folk, and classical music (and their various and evolving
hybrids);
* the encouragement of local musicians, choral groups,
singers, chamber groups, etc. through the broadcast of
concert recordings, live broadcasts, and studio
recordings; this should include airing and supporting
historically important, as well as contemporary and
experimental music in chamber, jazz, and other fields,
in preference to easy-listening varieties.
* the provision of a much-needed communication network
and information exchange in Canberra’s arts and
cultural community;
* the encouragement of other artists in Canberra such as
writers, actors, designers, drama producers, poets,
craftspeople, dancers, critics, and visual artists. The
nature of the programming to achieve this aim varies
according to the field. Some examples have been the
commissioning of works, provision of technical and
production assistance, broadcast of works directly,
programs about artists and their works, review of works,
and educational programs about techniques and trends;
* the provision of programs for and by young people to
help foster creativity and social and cultural skills and
interests.

ArtSound-Programming-Aims 2024

 

Program Schedule

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