FAQs

A previous round of community engagement was run in March and April 2025. It included:

• 2 x Community Workshops at the Town admin building.
• Pop-up engagement at Arts & Culture Fest event.
• Online engagement including a survey, mapping tool for ideas specific to locations and an ideas wall for brainstorming.

A welcoming and inclusive community of cultural practitioners 

• 241 members of the Vic Park Creatives network group
• 17 arts newsletters and expressions of interests sent to network
• 7 networking events delivered 
• 3 significant industry partnerships formed

An empowered creative community  

• 80 grants funded to empower community arts and culture projects 
• $331,453 distributed in funding for arts and culture initiatives
• 11 professional development workshops delivered 

Diverse programming

• 10 annual deliveries of Arts Season, with 188 events and 27,450 attendees over 5 years.
• 2 Youth Art Awards (1 grant funded)
• 2 Vic Park Portrait Prizes (grant funded) 
• 2 Vic Park Writer’s Festivals (grant funded)
• Vic Park Centre for the Arts operating subsidy enabling delivery of multicultural, inclusive and diverse programming  

Audiences from within and outside the Town

• Total of 30,703 people attended 
• 188 arts initiatives since 2020 
• 2 significant industry partners recruited to deliver programming to attract visitors from beyond the Town  

A cultural identify that is celebrated

• Aboriginal Art included in the Causeway Pedestrian Bridge 
• Noongar Art Trail designed and walking tours delivered 
• Place-based art delivered through grant funding and public art works in Town precincts and assets  

Increased opportunities for the community to engage with the arts

• 2 art in residence programs 
• 4 new public artworks
• 1 pavement mural
• 10 new murals curated (grant funded and assisted) 
• 6 art acquisitions from 6 Western Australian artists