News – ACW tackles diversity issues

The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has launched the first stage of its Cultural Diversity Strategy.
Among its objectives, the strategy focuses on ensuring that people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds have opportunities to influence or make decisions about the arts in Wales; have greater opportunity to access information about the arts; and have equality of access as arts practitioners or as audience members. Announcing the strategy, ACW?s Chairman Sybil Crouch said ?This strategy is aimed at all individual artists and arts organisations, but at this first stage we are particularly keen to address the issues faced by black and ethnic minority artists and communities. Multi-cultural traditions have existed in parts of Wales but have not previously been central to the development of arts and culture throughout Wales.?The second stage of ACW?s strategy will be published in 2002, which has been designated the UK Year of Cultural Diversity in the Arts.
For copies of the strategy, contact Janine Reynolds at ACW
t: 029 2037 6500
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