Cultural Policy Directions: Historical Narratives and Suburban Development in Campbelltown, Sydney

Penny Stannard

doi:10.5130/sj.v4i1.2800

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Published: Oct 21, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/sj.v4i1.2800

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Cultural policy, Suburbanisation, Modernity, Cultural identity, Cultural narrative, Campbelltown, Sydney, Outer-suburban

Penny Stannard

University of Technology, Sydney

Abstract

Campbelltown features heavily in the historical narrative of Sydney, and in the late twentieth century experienced an urban transformation that re-stamped it as a suburban part of greater Sydney. The changing environment experienced in Campbelltown has had significant implications across a broad public policy arena, including in the area of cultural policy as it is understood as public support for arts and cultural activity. This paper examines the history of cultural policy direction in Campbelltown to uncover the origins of the particular concern with local cultural activity driving a policy agenda of national recognition and what this meant for the cultural identity of Campbelltown as a modern, progressive outer-suburban place. The paper, which draws on a range of disciplines, explores the role that cultural policy has sought to have in interpreting, contesting and constructing the place identity of Campbelltown at particular moments in time.

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Vol 4 No 1 (2013): From the Ground Up: People and Places in Sydney's Past

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Penny Stannard, University of Technology, Sydney

Penny Stannard has twenty years professional experience in the Australian arts and cultural sector having produced and directed programs across the visual arts, music, contemporary dance, theatre, arts education, cultural policy, cultural planning and community cultural development. From 1997-2010 she worked in Western Sydney within the arts, local government and education sectors, including Cultural Program Manager, Campbelltown Arts Centre (2004-10). She has also worked extensively in the new South Wales Northern Rivers region, pioneering community outreach programs through the Northern Rivers Conservatorium Arts Centre in the mid 1990s. Ms Stannard has lectured in Arts Management and Organisational Development, College of Fine Art, University of NSW (2006) and Music Festivals Management, The University of Sydney (2010) and has worked as both a primary and secondary creative arts teacher. Penny Stannard commenced a PhD in 2011 at the University of Technology, Sydney and is a member of the Creative Practice and Cultural Economy Research Group. Her research engages with a range of thetoretical discourses to examine cultural policy directions, creative arts practices and cultural ecologies in suburban Sydney.

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Penny Stannard, University of Technology, Sydney