Background Information

Creative Highlands 2025–2029 (the Plan) outlines a focused four-year Plan for how arts and culture will be supported, strengthened and integrated across the Shire. It provides a practical framework for guiding investment, partnerships and initiatives that harness creativity to enhance community wellbeing, identity and connection.

This Plan provides a framework for artists, audiences, cultural organisations and the broader community to collectively shape Wingecarribee as we move toward our shared community vision By 2035, Wingecarribee will be the most liveable place in NSW for all generations to thrive.

The Plan was developed with extensive community and industry consultation last year and serves as a testament to our deep recognition of the vital role that creativity plays in everyday life - not only as a source of inspiration, joy and expression, but as a key contributor to wellbeing, economic opportunity and social connection.

  • Experience

    Increase inclusive access to arts and cultural activities, ensuring all people in Wingecarribee can participate in, enjoy, and contribute to the creative life of the Shire

  • Connect

    Foster collaboration and stronger relationships between artists, community, businesses, and organisations to strengthen cultural partnerships and shared creative outcomes

  • Activate

    Reimagine and use public, private, and natural spaces in creative ways to bring culture into the everyday - through events, installations, performances, and placemaking

  • Celebrate

    Honour the stories, traditions and creative expressions of our diverse communities - including First Nations voices - and promote local identity, pride, and visibility

  • Sustain

    Support a thriving, resilient creative sector by enabling partnerships, capacity building, sustainable practices and investment in cultural infrastructure and long-term growth

Viewing the Plan & Providing Feedback

Creative Highlands 2025 - 2029 is on public exhibition from Monday 23 June until Monday 21 July 2025. The draft plan along with supporting documentation may be viewed:

  1. In the electronic Document Library on this page
  2. At Council’s Customer Service Counter, Civic Centre, 68 Elizabeth Street, Moss Vale NSW 2577, between 8.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday
  3. Hard copy at one of our Council Libraries

Feedback can be provided on Creative Highlands 2025 - 2029 through:

  1. Completing an Online Submission Form (below)
  2. Emailing it directly to mail@wsc.nsw.gov.au with the subject title Creative Highlands
  3. Hand writing your submission and delivering it to Council's Civic Centre located at 68 Elizabeth Street, Moss Vale NSW 2577
  4. Posting your submission to Wingecarribee Shire Council, PO Box 141, Moss Vale NSW 2577

Only written submissions will be considered and these must be received by Council before Monday 21 July 2025. Please note that any submissions received may be included in the final report to Council.

Your feedback is a way for you to share your thoughts and ideas on a particular issue or project. The goal is to make sure your voice and the community’s voices are heard and considered. It helps provide valuable insights, identify potential issues and suggest improvements. This way, decisions can be more inclusive, transparent and effective, reflecting what you and the community really needs and wants.

Responses to engagement projects are compiled and considered. When projects are reported to Council to make a decision a summary of community feedback will be included. Updates on projects will be included in these pages and elsewhere on Council's website.

Sometimes it takes some months to provide feedback to the community and to make a decision as further investigation is often needed. We are listening and we do take your suggestions on board!