WHO ARE WE ANY WAY

INTER URBAN ARTS is a Community Cultural Development program which sits with Gold Coast Drug Council in West Burleigh. Inter Urban Arts works with all people to provide opportunities to engage in their community in a creative innovative and genuine way.  At Inter Urban Arts we meet people where they are at and focus on their strengths seeing them as assets in our community.

OUR VISION: A city where art, culture and community are valued and embraced as a pathway to health and wellbeing.

OUR MISSION: Creatively co-ordinate, develop and produce sustainable opportunities for individuals to make positive change in their lives and communities

OUR VALUES:

• Acceptance  (We appreciate, validate, accept and support  people where they are at this very moment)
• Self Acceptance (We facilitate opportunities for  people to appreciate, validate, accept who they are at this very moment, even those parts they’d like to eventually change)
• Safe spaces
• Relationship and friendship as a foundation for self growth
• Art as a tool for personal and social change
• Strength in people and see them as assets in our community
• Creativity as a pathway to self awareness and empowerment
• Culture as a basic human right
• Positivity and Celebration
• Skill sharing and mentoring
• Intergenerational connection
• Intercultural connection 
• Sustainability
• Resource management, recycling and sharing