2009 Cultural Arts Conference - Creating Critical Mass

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Cultural Arts Tradeshow opens

Celebrating City and County of Fresno Cultural Arts month, California Cultural Arts Day and National Arts & Humanities Month, displays and booths by cultural arts providers will offer opportunities, discounts, deals and raffles.

Early Bird Pre-conference Funders Breakfast

Available to Conference Attendees as a Special Event.
Pre Registration required. 

A panel of local and outside grantmakers will discuss the funding landscape in these critical times.

State of the Cultural Arts - Pecha Kucha Style

What’s our condition, locally and statewide?  In fast-paced, 6 minutes, visually paced “Pecha Kucha style” presentations we will hear from local and state leaders, giving us the bigger picture.

Never before has this innovative presentation style been used at a confernce.  It is "conference as art" and will be coordinated by Kiel Famellos-Schmidt and Travis Sheridan with Creative Fresno

• The Fresno Brand Platform - Suzanne Bertz Rosa
• The Tourism Connection, Jeff Eben, CEO, Fresno Convenion & Visitors Bureau
• KVPT and the Arts...A Naturl Aliance, Paula Castadio, PBS Board of Directors
• Revitalizing Downtown Fresno, Joe Moore
• They Paved Over Paradise…. or Did They? Historic Preservation in Fresno - Karana Hattersley Drayton, Historic Preservation Project Manager, City of Fresno
• Pictorial History of Fresno County - Elizabeth Laval, Pop Laval Collection
• Fresno Film: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow - Ray Arthur, City of Fresno Film & Entertainment Commission
• California Cultural Arts Policy - Brad Erickson, CA Arts Advocates

Morning Breakout Sessions

• Fresno State's Engagement and Partnerships in Strengthening the Cultural Arts Sector of the New California
  Moderator: Dr. Welty, President, CSU Fresno 
  CULTURAL ARTS
  Dr. Thomas Lowenheim, Dept. of Music, University Orchestra and Music Director of Youth Orchestras of Fresno 
  Dr. Victor Torres, Chair Dept. of Chicano & Latin American Studies, Director of Los Danzantes de Atzlan
  Joan Sharma, Dept. of Art and Design, Board Member Golda Foundation, Council of  100, Warnors Theater Window Project 
  Ms. Francine Oputa, Director, The Centerfor Women and Culture and the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institue; Coordinator, Sunday School: An Affircan and African American Cultural Education and Self-Image Program
  Prof. Don Priest, Chair Dept. of Mass Communication and Journalism, Board Member Community Media Access Coalition (CMAC)
  Dr. Jose A. Diaz, Associate Dean College of Arts and Humanities, Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, and Fresno Grand Opera Orchestra, Board Member Fresno Coalition for Arts, Science & History
  HISTORY
  Dr. Daniel Cady, Director of Central Valley Institute for Regional and Historical Studies
  SCIENCE  
  Dr. Steve White, Director, Downing Planetarium
  
• Developing Cultural Arts Tours & Tourism
  Jeff Eben, CEO, Fresno Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Marketing & PR Strategies for the New Economy
  Jim Lowe, Jeffery Scott Agency
• Demographics and Possible Implications for the Arts in the San Joaquin Valley, Hugo Morales, Executive Director, Radio Bilingüe
• Opportunties & Challenges for Organizations Providing Arts Education
  Dr. Terry Allen

Cultural Arts Luncheon – Putting Critical Mass to Work

The Fresno Centralized Event Calendar

It's time for the Fresno Region to have a world-class centralized event calendar. Keynote speaker - Matt Lehrman will speak about The Absurdity of Empty Seats - An empty seat never recommended anything to anybody.  It's time to ignite a new model of audience development - one sparked by collaboration, new technologies and a jolt of entrepreneurial spirit. Matt is the founding Executive Director of Alliance for Audience (AFA), a service organization founded in 2003 to advance the mutual audience development goals of the arts organizations and cultural destinations of the Greater Phoenix region. Best known as ShowUp.com, AFA serves more than 200 member organizations and its services have grown to include Metro Tucson andmost recently, Flagstaff, AZ, all using the Artsopolis calendar platform. In addition to the Arizona ShowUp.com calendars, Matt has consulted with numerous communities around the country to assist them develop centralized event calendars. He is the co-director [in partnership with ArtsFund (Seattle)] of Project Audience, a Mellon-Foundation sponsored exploration process to envision the next generation of technology to power the collaborative, community-level audience development efforts of the arts and cultural community.

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Matt Lehrman and Jeff Trabucco, Director of Artsopolis, will facilitate a dialogue about how we can use and work with the calendar to drive audience development

We are the Critical Mass - Hear Us Roar!

Speakers:   FOOLS  (FOR ART, SCIENCE AND HISTORY)

How do we create our critical mass, our 15,000 united for the cultural sector in the Fresno Region?  Closing this day, we introduce a program that will bring together the critical mass that we know is out there waiting.  We will create a single voice of support for the cultural sector, to shout its praises, to call it to action, to be a little crazy, to revel together.    The session will be fun, it will be surprising and if you help, it may even change the world.

Cultural Arts Tradeshow

Relax, network and enjoy displays and booths by cultural arts providers will offer opportunities, discounts, and deals.