Making the Case for Culture: Building Community Identity and Pride
Creative Cities Network of Canada | Canada wide | 2005
Steven Dang, Elise Finnigan, Katie Warfield

Key arguments and background info for demonstrating how culture can foster social cohesion and belonging, tourism, and collective memory.

“The arts have been instrumental in facilitating social cohesion, bringing tourism to unlikely places, fostering a sense of belonging, and preserving collective memory. Culture-based businesses and organizations:
1. The arts help to facilitate social cohesion.
2. Arts and culture can be used to brand a community and set it apart from others.
3. The arts can help foster a sense of ownership, belonging, and pride within a community.
4. The arts help to preserve a collective memory and foster a continuing dialogue about the past.”

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