Community Based Cultural Organisations within the Creative Industries – a Cultural Policy Dilemma

This paper explores community-based cultural organisations that combine orientated objectives of community arts practice with commercially oriented creative industries. In New Zealand, these organisations are hampered by gaps in cultural policy, which limits their ability to gain legitimacy and agency in the arts or the creative industries. This paper argues that if community-based cultural organisations are to be supported by government policy an integrated policy approach needs to be adopted.