Exploring New Approaches

Driven by the pandemic, LA’s cultural organisations and artists are exploring hybrid in-person and digital approaches to delivering cultural programming. This includes using augmented reality and QR codes in cultural and outdoor spaces and developing more technology-based art making.

Advancing Equity

There is growing recognition in LA cultural policy of the role of arts in advancing equity and supporting cross-sector policy areas including healing, mental health initiatives, youth development, and in supporting citizens impacted by systemic injustice.

Decentralisation

LA’s cultural offering and ecosystem is becoming more decentralised with the proliferation of smaller arts groups and with the conversion and utilisation of nontraditional spaces for art development and presentation, and the impact of the pandemic on closures and cancellations and reduced audiences for larger, more centralised, cultural venues and institutions.

Equity and Diversity

There is an ongoing equity and diversity reckoning of LA’s cultural sector, including more widespread adoption of land acknowledgement of indigenous communities, and more targeted outreach and programming to include Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC), Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian (AMEMSA), Latino/a/x/e, and LGBTQIA communities.

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