What Next? Cardiff
When: Wednesday 21 June, 8:30 – 9.30am
Where: Cardiff University. The meeting will be in Room 0.05 of the Bute Building, which is through the set of
double doors, to the left, down the stairs and straight ahead.
Chair: Yvonne Murphy
Agenda
1. Welcome and introductions
2. Updates from last few weeks (and to be carried over if not all done this week):
– Sophie Howe/ Future Generations Commissioner, and the Art of the Possible paper attached
– follow on from previous weeks, inc Sarah Pace/ Addo Creative last week on manifesto for culture and the
Cardiff City Region, and Phil George the week before
– info from Bethan Jenkins as chair of Culture, Welsh Language and Comms Cttee– see attached docs
– WG policy paper on Brexit and devolution: http://gov.wales/newsroom/firstminister/2017/170615-fm-
sets-out- way-forward- for-devolution- post-brexit/?lang=en
– ACW: Building a more resilient Arts Council of Wales document on their Organisational Review – attached
– 24hr culture survey
– Get Creative Festival, 17-25 March 2018. This new annual festival – a merger of Voluntary Arts Festival and
Get Creative Weekend – will last 9 days, incorporating two weekends. To take advantage of specific
opportunities to link our activities to some mainstream BBC programming, the festival will move to March in
2018. From 2019 Get Creative Festival will revert to the middle of May: provisionally 11-19 May 2019
– joint letter to PSBs from Carl Sargeant and Mark Drakeford – attached
3. WN? national comms
WN? wants to start a UK-wide mailing list to send updates and information to everyone involved in What
Next? once a month. To sign up to this list individuals need to
visit http://www.whatnextculture.co.uk/mailing-list/
4. Future What Next? speakers/topics
28th June – an update from Creative Cardiff, with city council and ACW
5th July – Wiard Sterk, Indycube
12th – Chris Jenkins, Commonwealth Games
19th – speaker TBC updates/ other business
26th – speaker TBC updates/ other business, and last mtg before Sept/ no mtgs in August
Invited: Dave Horton ACE on Communities First legacy/ in Sept when at ACW
Invited: Music Venues Trust
Suggestion: Bethan Jenkins AM – in her role as chair of the Culture, Welsh Language and
Communications Committee
Suggestion: ACW Research team – Cardiff data and patterns of investment
Suggestion: Carl Sargeant – Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children
Suggestion: Lizzie Crump – Creative Learning through the Arts
Suggestion: Industrial strategy
Suggestion: Coun Huw Thomas, Leader of Cardiff Council
Suggestions welcome
5. Any other business
Future What Next? Meetings
No meetings in August
6 September – 11 October, Arts Council Wales
18 October – 22 November, Welsh National Opera
29 November – 20 December, National Theatre Wales
10 Jan – 14 Feb '18 – Chapter
The purpose of What Next?
Broad aim: to find new ways of engaging with our audience and visitors: the ever-expanding millions who
value and take part in the cultural work that happens day-in, day-out up and down this country.
Guiding star: to encourage the people of this country, as individuals and as communities, to see connections
between the many different ways art and culture affect and enhance our lives; to urge everyone to register
their endorsement of – and pleasure in – their art and culture, especially where these are under threat.
What Next? website and social media
What Next? Cardiff website (agendas, members etc) https://whatnextcardiff.wordpress.com
What Next? UK movement website: http://www.whatnextculture.org
What Next? Twitter: Cardiff: http://www.twitter.com/wncardiff or @WNCardiff and #wnculture UK:
http://www.twitter.com/whatnextculture and #wnculture
Please note: We want everyone to feel free to ask questions and share their thoughts at What Next? meetings without
worrying that they’ll be quoted elsewhere or out of context. It’s generally accepted that no-one reports on the
meetings, tweets anything personal or identifiable, or shares any content without checking first with the contributor.