The Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Paul Goldsmith has released a draft of a national creative and cultural strategy, Amplify: A Creative and Cultural Strategy for New Zealand (Draft) 2024 – 2030.

Amplify is a national strategy that shows how government will work with the creative and cultural sectors to deliver support for the sectors’ development.

The vision for the strategy is: Amplify our arts and culture to make New Zealand a global creative powerhouse. Amplify takes an action-oriented approach to setting out the government’s focus for amplifying creativity and culture in New Zealand over the next six years to 2030. It responds to the sectors’ unique challenges and opportunities.

Read Amplify: A Creative and Cultural Strategy for New Zealand (Draft) 2024 – 2030 here.

If you want to make an independent submission addressing the questions in this document, you can complete the survey here.

NZSA is working with book sector colleagues to form a response to this strategy. This will be shared with members when ready. If you want to send comments and feed into this process, meetings are planned over the next two weeks so please email Jenny with your comments and we will ensure all views are tabled and discussed.  director@nzauthors.org.nz