Invercargill City Council
Recreation and culture
From parks and libraries to museums and art galleries, councils can be a key supporter of sporting, recreational and cultural events that bring communities to life. Community facilities, including sports grounds and town halls, are often owned and run by councils.
Recreation and culture
From parks and libraries to museums and art galleries, councils can be a key supporter of sporting, recreational and cultural events that bring communities to life. Community facilities, including sports grounds and town halls, are often owned and run by councils.
Replace museum with a building suitable for the needs of the community.
Encourage participation in sporting and recreation activity through provision and maintenance of quality facilities.
Ensure the creative sector is fully supported by council.
Continue to support the development of creative community events that bring people together and foster well-being.
Showcase and support the creatives within our local community.
Continue to support and collaborate with the art and culture sector and aligned organisations, provide facilities, venues, and community funding.
Continue funding public parks, pools, museums, libraries and community halls, community events and sports events, to current standard or better.
Consider reviewing liquor licensing, currently managed by ILT, to assure community wellbeing and best practice takes place, harm is negated.
Introduce family social area at Queens Park, like that at Anderson's Park with a BBQ area for families to enjoy our parks further.
Introduce more animals in the animal enclosure. Develop further plans for our community families and tourist to interact with animals.
Commit the council to bring the museum build forward, to ensure we have the best future proof financial investment on the plans available.
Put up security cameras to make people feel safe when using Sandy Point.
Invest in our parks and reserves. Encourage residents to take care of these areas, ie community working bees to collect rubbish.
Attract one large event per month to the city/Bluff.
Leave it, it is a fantastic building.
Have a summer solstice and Christmas festival at the solstice most memorial park.
Redeye fashion, avant-garde and creative, physical and static art Festival at Art gallery four times a year, connected with theatre, sit and senior.
Promote oppurtunities within the city that recognise the wide variety of interests that exist.
Encourage and, if necessary construct, facilities to promote recreation given the city's climate.
Make better use of funding that is already available for groups in the city by advice and support.
Fast track the museum. Target opening within the next 3-4 years. No need to build $10m storage facility at Tisby.
Support multi-cultural events, to create and encourage diverse groups to hold festivals and celebrations in Invercargill.
Push for the museum project to result in a museum that is future proof and iconic for the city, the region and NZ.
Prioritise a focus on arts, culture and heritage which have been lacking for a long time.
Develop and support more iconic events for Invercargill.
Ensure the delivery of our culture focused projects, such as the museum remain on track to be delivered as quickly as possible.
Ensure the delivery of the Spaces and Places strategy, aimed to ensure the community has the right spaces to remain active every day.
Support the creative sector!
Replace museum with a building suitable for the needs of the community.
Encourage participation in sporting and recreation activity through provision and maintenance of quality facilities.
Ensure the creative sector is fully supported by council.
Continue to support the development of creative community events that bring people together and foster well-being.
Showcase and support the creatives within our local community.
Continue to support and collaborate with the art and culture sector and aligned organisations, provide facilities, venues, and community funding.
Continue funding public parks, pools, museums, libraries and community halls, community events and sports events, to current standard or better.
Consider reviewing liquor licensing, currently managed by ILT, to assure community wellbeing and best practice takes place, harm is negated.
Introduce family social area at Queens Park, like that at Anderson's Park with a BBQ area for families to enjoy our parks further.
Introduce more animals in the animal enclosure. Develop further plans for our community families and tourist to interact with animals.
Commit the council to bring the museum build forward, to ensure we have the best future proof financial investment on the plans available.
Put up security cameras to make people feel safe when using Sandy Point.
Invest in our parks and reserves. Encourage residents to take care of these areas, ie community working bees to collect rubbish.
Attract one large event per month to the city/Bluff.
Leave it, it is a fantastic building.
Have a summer solstice and Christmas festival at the solstice most memorial park.
Redeye fashion, avant-garde and creative, physical and static art Festival at Art gallery four times a year, connected with theatre, sit and senior.
Promote oppurtunities within the city that recognise the wide variety of interests that exist.
Encourage and, if necessary construct, facilities to promote recreation given the city's climate.
Make better use of funding that is already available for groups in the city by advice and support.
Fast track the museum. Target opening within the next 3-4 years. No need to build $10m storage facility at Tisby.
Support multi-cultural events, to create and encourage diverse groups to hold festivals and celebrations in Invercargill.
Push for the museum project to result in a museum that is future proof and iconic for the city, the region and NZ.
Prioritise a focus on arts, culture and heritage which have been lacking for a long time.
Develop and support more iconic events for Invercargill.
Ensure the delivery of our culture focused projects, such as the museum remain on track to be delivered as quickly as possible.
Ensure the delivery of the Spaces and Places strategy, aimed to ensure the community has the right spaces to remain active every day.
Support the creative sector!
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