Creative Industries

Promote Kingston's Creative Industries sector and enhance its reputation through new and existing marketing campaigns that align with the Kingston Integrated Economic Development Strategy. Create a local campaign celebrating and showcasing our creative ecosystem and its resident artists. Engage in collaborative storytelling campaigns that support diverse cultures and histories in line with our strategies.

We will take specific actions and make plans for areas like film, music and theatre to help the economy and support recovery after the pandemic. We will also work together more closely with economic groups and community partners to make things easier for the creative industries. 

We will partner with Kingston's innovation network to help creative businesses and entrepreneurs grow. We will include creative programs in existing services like workshops and educational programs to help artists turn their ideas into businesses. We will also investigate available funding programs for businesses and explore digital platforms to connect everyone in the creative industries.

We will create a creative industry working group with members from different sectors to help develop Kingston's creative industries. We will also explore research funding with Queen's University and St. Lawrence College and build partnerships with other communities to share ideas and support our local creatives. We will maintain connections with other cities through the Canadian Creative Cities Network.

We will make better use of libraries, parks, and public spaces in Kingston for creative industries, especially performing arts. We will also find places that can be transformed to help these sectors connect and work together more easily.

We will do research to learn more about diversity in creative industries and make commitments to include everyone. We will also create ways to measure and report our progress on this.