Complete the Toronto Music Strategy Online Consultation Today!
The City of Toronto and the Toronto Music Advisory Council (TMAC) are launching an important survey over the holiday period: the Toronto Music Strategy Survey. The input provided through this survey consultation will inform and guide Toronto's first-ever music strategy, which is slated to be presented to the City's Economic Development Committee and City Council in 2016.
The Toronto Music Strategy is an anonymous, short (5-10 minute) online survey that asks for input on the draft Toronto Music Strategy: Supporting and Growing the City's Music Sector. The document was drafted by TMAC and seeks to guide both the short and long-term growth of Toronto's music sector. The plan is to incorporate the feedback received through the survey into the final draft.
GET INVOLVED: Read the draft music strategy, then complete the survey by clicking here. The deadline for completing the survey is December 31, 2015 at 12:00 noon EST.
While you should definitely read through the full draft strategy by clicking here, here's a quick synopsis of the strategic areas that Toronto's music strategy will cover (according to the draft document):
- Support an environment friendly to music creators: Priorities will include professional education programs, affordable housing, rehearsal space, fair compensation for performers, access to health and dental care and financial programs.
- Encourage the business of music in Toronto: Priorities include ensuring that bylaws and regulations are music-friendly, creation of a business networking website, financing & sponsorship, working Business Improvement Areas and the Toronto Association of BIA Support, access to civic venues and City-sponsored programs, public transit and the creation of a physical music hub.
- Support music education
- Promote Toronto's music sector locally and internationally: music tourism, celebration of our music history, creation of a Toronto Music brandmark.
- Foster alliances with other music cities around the world
- Implement a process for monitoring progress and measuring success