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Outline. Background Engagement Attitudes Gaps and opportunities. Background. Participation – create, attend or read Artforms – music, theatre, dance, literature, visual arts and craft Online engagement Childhood participation Attitudes towards the arts Perceived impacts of the arts.
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Outline • Background • Engagement • Attitudes • Gaps and opportunities
Background • Participation – create, attend or read • Artforms – music, theatre, dance, literature, visual arts and craft • Online engagement • Childhood participation • Attitudes towards the arts • Perceived impacts of the arts • 3,004 telephone interviews • Australians aged 15 years and older • Representative by state, metropolitan and regional areas, age, gender • Fieldwork 26th Oct - 18th Nov 2013
Engagement– arts participation Attendance No creative participation or attendance Creative participation Including reading, 94% receptively participate
Engagement – artform participation • Visual art and craft • 30% create • 37% attend • Literature • 16% create • 87% read • Music • 20% create • 57% attend • Theatre and Dance • 8% create • 38% attend
Engagement – online 2 in 3 Australians engage with the arts online 56% consume 44% follow or engage with artists/ arts organisations 23% create
Attitudes The arts are too expensive 36% agree, 54% in 1999 The arts are not really for people like me 13% agree, 35% in 1999
Opportunities – cultural diversity Less likely to… Creatively or receptively participate Believe “there are plenty of opportunities for me to get involved” More likely to… Agree that “the arts are too expensive” Feel “artists should have complete freedom of expression.”
Opportunities – people with disability • Creation has gone up from 2009 to 49% - now on par with other Australians • Attendance has remained stable and lower – 59% compared to 74% of other Australians • Online engagement is also lower