Creative Tauranga plans to establish a new governance structure to better serve the local artistic and cultural sectors.

This new governance structure comes after an independent strategic review of the creative charitable trust which was undertaken during November of last year.

Creative Tauranga's new premises in the Tauranga City Council arcade. Photo: David Tauranga

Following a review of the Trust Deed, an appointment panel will now be created to assist with choosing new trustees.

The five-person panel includes Creative Tauranga chair Marcus Wilkins, an elected representative from both the Tauranga City and Western Bay of Plenty District council, plus one representative from the arts sector and one community representative.

Creative Tauranga is now seeking nominations and expressions of interest for an art representative and a community representative.

'The art sector representative will be someone with expertise in any genre of arts, with strong connections to the WBOP arts and culture sector,” says chair Marcus Wilkins.

'The community representative will be of known and respected standing in the community, preferably with local iwi connection, but does not need to be an artist.”

The group will meet to agree the process for appointing new trustees and then again to review trustee applications and make recommendations to the trustees.

While Creative Tauranga will be advertising for the governance representatives later in February.

'We're looking forward to getting new trustees to help set a new strategic direction for the organization. The results from our strategic review undertaken last year were very helpful in setting the new direction.”

Nominations for the Arts and Community representatives close 12pm on Tuesday, February 9. For more information or to apply visit Creative Tauranga's website at: www.creativetauranga.org.nz