The purposes of this strategy is to maintain the momentum established by the 2003-08 Arts Strategy, to align the arts and cultural planning to the timetable of that established by the ‘Leisure Vision’, and to recapitulate the development of an inspiring and useful cultural infrastructure for all residents.

The County’s Leisure Vision aims to ‘put Carmarthenshire on the map’ by celebrating and promoting its ‘unique culture’, including the prominence of the welsh language.

We believe the County Council’s role in arts contributing to this vision is to encourage activity across the geographical area.

We want to engender a sense, based on actual support, of a shared agenda with the voluntary and professional arts sector, audiences, education and the wider society. 

We want to continue to feel proud of living in a county where people value their culture and working for a County Council widely recognised as valuing cultural activity.

 We want to live in a county where a thriving arts and culture scene make a significant contribution to the economy and social cohesion and where artists want to live and work.

By the end of this strategy we would like to see clear route ways for people to enjoy their arts and greater opportunities for them to do so within a strengthened physical infrastructure of cultural facilities.

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