International culture strategy: survey - easy read

What we believe in and the work we want to do

We want to:

• support Scotland's cultural and creative sectors to:
  • develop new international work
  • build relationships
  • share ideas
• find new audiences and ways to bring in money
• understand why international cultural activity is important, how it could get better and what could be hard
• get better at selling to countries across the world
• tell people around the world about Scottish cultural products

Questions

5. Do you have any views on what we believe in and the work we want to do?

Type your answer here:

The strategy has 4 themes.

1. Cultural connections

Working with others and sharing information and ideas is very important.

We want to support the cultural sector to connect with creative people across the world.

The Scottish culture sector has many international connections.

It is recognised as an innovator in what it does and how it does it.

An innovator comes up with new ideas or ways of working.

2. Economic impact

We want to see how international work can support the development of Scotland's culture sector through:

• finding new places to sell to
• finding new people and audiences to show cultural work to
• selling to other countries

We will look at what makes working internationally difficult and how to make this easier.

3. Diplomacy – how we communicate with other countries to help change what happens in the world

We want to check how culture can continue to be important for Scotland's public sector, including the Scottish Government's international offices.

The public sector are organisations run by the government with money raised from taxes.

They are services we all use like schools, hospitals and councils.

We also want to see if Scotland's cultural assets could be used when meeting people from other countries across the world.

4. Reputation – what people think

Culture is at the centre of what people think about Scotland and why they want to visit or work here.

Scotland's cultural organisations doing international work can give them a positive reputation in other countries.

We would like to find out if cultural organisations think they have a role in promoting Scotland internationally.

Questions

6. What do you think about the 4 themes?

Type your answer here:

7. How does your work connect with each of the 4 themes?

Please only give us information under themes that affect your work.

Type your answer here for Theme 1 – Cultural connections:

Type your answer here for Theme 2 – Economic impact:

Type your answer here for Theme 3 – Diplomacy:

Type your answer here for Theme 4 – Reputation:

8. Are there themes missing that should be in the strategy?

Type your answer here: