Renaissance City Plan

In February this year, Dr Lee Boon Yang, the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), launched the third phase of the Renaissance City Plan – Singapore’s arts and cultural master plan for 2008 to 2015. Dr Lee announced that MICA would allocate $115 million over the next five years, or about $23 million a year, towards the three key areas of Distinctive Content, Dynamic Ecosystem and Engaged Community. MICA, the National Arts Council (NAC), and the National Heritage Board (NHB) have now jointly released a Renaissance City Plan III Public Report (RCP III), which incoporates the RCP III Arts Development Plan and the RCP III Heritage Development Plan, to provide further details to stakeholders and the public, of the Government’s plans for Singapore’s arts and cultural development.
RCP III is a total arts and cultural master plan, and it envisions Singapore in 2015 as the ‘Best Home for Singaporeans’ and an ‘International Magnet for Talent’, where arts and culture play a critical role in strengthening Singapore’s liveability and distinctiveness as a nation, as well as endearing Singapore to Singaporeans, residents and visitors. Beyond new initiatives by MICA, NAC and NHB, RCP III also calls for a whole-of-government approach in business development, talent development and creating distinctive districts in the implementation of its three focus areas.

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