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Culture Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development, 2013 Culture Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development A document prepared by the Ville de Montréal Co-Chair of the Committee on Culture – United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) 2013 Edition 2 Date of city’s foundation: 1642 Population: City: 1,6 million 2013 Budget 1642 Urban area: 1,9 million The most of the Ville de Montréal: visited Region: 3,6 million region in $4.9$4.9 billion billion (CAD) Quebec 2008 GDP: $95.9 billion Top 5 of intercultural cities (CAD) of European cities network 19 boroughs: local services Cultural headquarters: UNESCO Institute for 311 artworks – Montréal Top 5 public art collection statistics, ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) and ICOGRADA (International 178 auditorial facilities Council of Graphic Design Associations) 81 exhibition sites for visual boroughsarts 19 87 publishers Montréal UNESCO city of 65 museums, interpretation Two design: and exhibition sites municipal Two municipal25 000 60 bookstores cultural cultural designers 32networks film theatres – 273 screens networks: 29 radio stations • Accès Culture Network: 8 television stations 24 distributors in performing Cultural mediation 2 conservatories 25and visual 000 arts, a music as a common strategy specialized broadcaster for access to culture designersand another seasonal and cultural integration: broadcaster. Montréaler’s Policies hundreds of projects in the Montréal’s visiting card card visiting Montréal’s access to culture is at the in force: neighbourhoods (learning heart of their mission and Cultural Development Policy, French, awakening to reading, the principles of democracy120 festivals2007-2017 Action Plan - school perseverance, literacy, and fairness Montréal, cultural metropolis, introduction to arts, amateur • A network of 43 libraries the Montréal Community artistic practice, etc.) and a one Grande Sustainable Development Plan, the Family Policy, the Bibliothèque (National Library) Municipal Economic Development museumsStrategy , the Charter of Rights 120 festivals and annual events among which and Responsibilities, Montréal Montréal International Jazz Festival, Montréal High Lights 2025, the Tree Policy, the Festival, Just for laughs, Francofolies, Festival TransAmériques Heritage Policy, the Master andPolicies Montréal completely circus Plan, the Action Plan for Universal Access, Montréal, Municipal City of Knowledge museums: Montréal History Centre, Lachine Sectoral cultural policies: the 2010-2014 Accès Culture Museum, Espace pour la vie Network Action Plan, Public Libraries Diagnosis, Framework for (Space for Life), Pointe-à- Sectoralaction in the realm of public art, culturalCultural Tourism Plan, Libraries Callière renovation, expansion and constructionpolicies project 3 A radiant With 96 910 direct jobs in 2008, the cultural cultural sector is among the96 main industries 910 in Montréal direct metropolis jobs and currently represents 5,1 % of Montréal’s total employment Cradlef o the struggle for UNESCO Quartier des convention to protect cultural diversity Quartier Assets spectacles: The International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity Onedes square kilometre, spectacles Headquarters 80 places of cultural broadcasting, 30 theatres Circus: Cirque du offeringCradle almost 28,000 seats of the struggleSoleil, Cirque for Éloize and the 7 including Place des Arts and 56,000 fingers, la TOHU, A new circus cultural workers theUNESCO Grande Bibliothèque (the conventionfestival: Montréalto completely Nationalprotect Library) cultural diversitycircus, National Circus school Video games: a crossing between art and industry: a sector of over 7000 jobs. Ubisoft, Warner Bros, the National Visual Arts: Animation and Design Centre (NADC), INIS, EIDOS-Montréal, network of institutions for Electronic Arts higher education (UQAM, Circus Concordia). Events: Month Digital Arts of photography, the Quebec 10th art - capital of digital arts: triennial, Montréal Biennial, Visual arts: 1500 creators. Society for the Contemporary Art Fair of 3,100 visual artists Arts and Technology Video(SAT), Works on Paper. Art centers and craftspersons MUTEK, Elektra, Festival of and galleries, Contemporary New Cinema Art Museum and Montréal gamesMuseum of Fine Arts Presence of major cultural institutions: PlaceVisual des Arts, Montreal Symphony House, Musée d’art First city to support the contemporain, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Grande recognition of culture as BibliothèqueArts the 4th pillar of sustainable development Contemporary music: First urban The Saint-Sulpice library for contemporary destination in the Digitalworld toArts sign the Geotourism music which will host 25 music groups for the Charter of the National Vivier project Geographic Society ContemporaryTwo historic districts: 82%music of the population Old Montréal and Mont-Royal. Boulevard Saint Laurent: national engages in an artistic or historic site of Canada. One of the oldest heritages built in North cultural activity at an amateur America. A modern heritage to be recognized level Two historic districts 4 THE ART OF NETWORKING Active within the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) since its inception in 2007, Montréal currently serves as Co-Chair of the UCLG’s Committee on Culture. Presided over by Lille-Métropole, this international committee has set itself the primary objective of making culture the fourth pillar of sustainable development, both locally and internationally. Intro Intro Like Montréal, the cities of Angers, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lille, Mexico City and Milan are relying heavily on culture as a key component of urban development and policymaking. Together, they are now working to build an international network of cities to ensure exchanges on the Agenda 21 for culture, which has been translated into 20 languages. The UCLG network embraces some 450 cities, local governments and organizations, including Culture Montréal and Les Arts et la Ville. MONTRÉAL: A CULTURAL AND SUSTAINABLE METROPOLIS In matters of culture, Montreal has often been as a trailblazer, as reflected by its Cultural Develop- ment Policy and Montréal, Cultural Metropolis Action Plan, as well as its official recognition in 2011 of the importance of culture for the metropolis. The first city in the world to do so! When called upon by the UCLG to play a role in the Rio + 20 Earth Summit, Montreal was quick to respond. In fact, the members of the Executive Committee, City Council, and Agglomeration Council of Montréal adopted an official declaration that placed culture at the very heart of the city’s future development. This two- part declaration ensures support for the cultural sector and guarantees culture its rightful place in municipal public policies as a whole. At the end of 2012, an important consciousness-raising campaign ended as the 19 boroughs each agreed to do their part to ensure that culture was recognized by the United Nations as the fourth pillar of sustainable development. To this end, the boroughs demonstrated their commitment by including cultural actions in their local plans for development or by formulating new cultural policies. FUTURE COmmItmENTS Montréal has pledged to raise public awareness of the work of the UCLG’s Committee on Culture, to help formulate a new worldwide Agenda 21 for culture, and to publicly promote this position on culture and sustain- able development throughout Quebec and Canada. It is thus inviting other cities and organizations to join the movement. This document presents the declarations adopted by the City Council and the Borough of Rivière- des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles. For more information, contact the Direction de la culture et du patrimoine of the Ville de Montréal or the UCLG’s Committee on Culture. 5 WHEREAS: • the Ville de Montréal held the Montreal Summit in • this international declaration has a dual thrust: 2002, which recognized Montreal as “a city of crea- (1) to develop the cultural sector itself; tivity and innovation, open to the world”; (2) to ensure that culture has a legitimate place in all public policies; • the Ville de Montréal was present at the Local Authorities Forum for Social Inclusion held in Porto • the Ville de Montréal is currently formulating an Alegre in 2002, which gave rise to the Agenda 21 Urban Development Plan that will outline the future for culture, inspired by the Agenda 21 adopted at of Montreal; example of way By the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro; • the Ville de Montréal is currently engaged in a par- • the Ville de Montréal adopted Agenda 21 for culture ticipatory reflection process on cultural neighbour- in June 2005; hoods, in conjunction with the Boroughs, organiza- tions and partners; • the Ville de Montréal adopted the Cultural De- velopment Policy – Montreal, Cultural Metropolis • the cultural perspective is included in the majorityof in August 2005, pledging to make culture a key the Ville de Montréal’s public policies, including its component in its urban policies, and to follow-up Corporate Sustainable Development Plan 2010- on and implement the Agenda 21 for culture, both 2015 and the Montreal Community Sustainable locally and internationally; Development Plan 2010-2015, which place sus- tainable development at the heart of the municipal the mayor of Montreal is Vice-President of the • administration’s operations; Executive Bureau of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and that the Ville de Montréal • the Ville de Montréal was asked by the UCLG’s is Chair of the North American section; World Secretariat to ensure that this position
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