A record of the 'creative' stream of the Australia 2020 Summit, including recommendations for consideration by the Australian Government. It is based on ideas put forward by participants during the Summit discussion sessions, outcomes from preliminary Summit events and ideas generated from public submissions received prior to the Summit.

Participants in the Creative stream started discussions on the 2020 collaborative website several weeks before the summit, exchanging ideas about the future of the arts, film and design in Australia.

After the summit’s official opening and the plenary session on the Saturday morning, Creative stream participants came together in the Government Party Room of Parliament House. The co-chairs and the lead facilitator introduced participants to the context, ‘givens’, objectives and process for the stream. The co-chairs made a number of comments to open the discussion:

• The summit offers an opportunity for the beginning of a meaningful relationship between artists, and other members of the creative sector, and government.  In the evolving national and global economic, social and technological environment it is essential that the arts and creativity are a valued and integral part of society, not an adjunct.
• We want to encourage and enable every Australian to realise their creative potential.
• Participants should try to imagine the future and then work backwards: how did we get to this imagined future of a creative Australia in 2020?
  

Eleven participants had been invited by the co-chairs to speak for two minutes each about their imagined futures on a range of topics and themes. The themes were the life of the artist, education, philanthropy, Indigenous culture, public investment, the Youth Summit, the impact of geography on access, social inclusion, broadcasting and screen culture, cultural diplomacy, and the creative economy. 

http://www.australia2020.gov.au/docs/final_report/2020_summit_report_8_creative.pdf