The following terms are used extensively throughout this Strategy document and definitions have been placed at the front of the document for clarity.

Culture

It is generally accepted today in Local Government policy terms that the word 'culture' relates to an overarching concept of beliefs and values that underpin the lives of individuals and communities.

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO] states that:

Culture consists of all distinctive spiritual and material intellectual and emotional features which characterise a society or social group.

Culture therefore underpins everything we do as individuals and as a society including the social ways of behaving and interacting with others. It also includes our understanding of history the artefacts we make and the stories we tell.

Cultural heritage

Cultural heritage can be considered as both immovable and movable heritage items. Historic buildings examples of important architecture and places of cultural significance are among the immovable cultural heritage assets of a place and its people. Places of cultural significance might include sacred Indigenous sites and sites relating to significant local people or historic events that have meaning for the community. It is important to remember that immovable cultural heritage preservation and protection is in many cases covered by a legislative framework such as Heritage Victoria classifications which provide legal protection to certain sites (specifically those with significant importance to local indigenous culture) monuments statues and sculptures.

Movable cultural heritage refers to those tangible and intangible traces stories and the recorded evidence of people's way of life that constitute a community's heritage and history. This may include:

• the physical collection and display of cultural objects in museums and galleries
• the collecting of people's stories through aural history programsresearch into local history for education and publishing activities; and the integration of interpretive signage or artworks in public spaces.

Art

The range of personal cultural expressions are categorised as 'Art' and includes a wide range of visual aural and sensory communication. Art can be seen as an expression of culture one of the ways in which an individual or a group of individual's reflect or challenge values contained within the community's culture. It is generally acknowledged today that the arts include but are not limited to: the visual arts such as painting sculpture digital art; the performing arts such as dance music and theatre; and literary arts such as writing and storytelling.

Artist

The term 'Artist' can be associated with those individuals who as Donald Richardson states in his book “What Art is – and isn't” “transform material by manipulation for an aesthetic end”. Richardson argues that as art is conceptual and not functional then designers such as architects or industrial designers who deal with functional objects are not artists when practicing in their professional capacity. The title 'Artist' has also become widely used when referring to creative practitioners such as craftspeople and artisans.

Unlike design professions such as architecture there is no formal professional institute membership required to qualify as an artist therefore artists are often judged on the basis of the quality of their artwork recognition of their peers and success through their practice as defined by exhibitions and representation of their work in public collections.

Public Art

The term 'Public Art' is widely used across Australia to cover all artworks located in