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Arts Day 2011
March 2-3, 2011

Arts Day events will take place at the Madison Concourse Hotel (one block off the Capitol Square) in downtown Madison. Legislative visits will take place at the State Capitol.
schedule current as of 2-28-2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Pre-Arts Day workshop sessions
Free, but pre-registration is required (on Arts Day registration form or send message to akatz@artswisconsin.org).

1-3 pm: Taking steps to create and sustain community change: local arts organizations as community-based resources, partners, and leaders

  • Wednesday, March 2, 1:00 – 3:00 pm, Madison Childrens Museum, 100 North Hamilton Street facilitated by Karen Goeschko, Wisconsin Arts Board and Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin (session will be repeated on Thursday, March 3, 2-4 pm, at the Concourse Hotel)

This session provides a learning community experience for Wisconsin’s local arts leaders. Participants will create the framework for a step by step plan to engage with their communities (not just their audiences) more deeply.

While Wednesday’s session will focus primarily on the work of local arts agencies/councils, Thursday’s session will include breakout sessions specifically for local arts agencies/councils, for presenting/ producing organizations, and for performing and visual artists.

The session is one in a series of conversations for Wisconsin’s local arts leadership. Look for another learning opportunity in fall 2011.

The session will touch on:

* Using asset mapping to understand the power of the arts in community building work
* Building capacity to create and sustain community change.
* Understanding community building and audience engagement - similarities and differences
* Understanding the partners in community building through the arts
o Local arts organizations
o Community representatives
o Artists and other creative entrepreneurs
* Understanding the processes involved in community building through the arts
o Artists’ creative process
o community planning process
o organizers’ capacity building process
* Engaging your audiences – beyond the basics

3-5 pm: Speaking up for the arts - advocacy information and training for Wisconsin arts leaders
with Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin, and special guests

* Advocacy 101 – specifics about pro-active and effective advocacy for the arts
* Why advocacy should be an integral component of your work in and for the community
* What can you do to speak up for the arts on Arts Day and every day?
* The 2011-2013 state budget and what it means to you, your organization and your community
* 2011 Arts Legislative Agenda

Additional pre-Arts Day sessions

5:30 pm

  • Arts Wisconsin advocacy captains meeting

6 pm

  • Dutch treat dinner for arts activists - if you come to Madison the night before Arts Day, join your colleagues for dinner and conversation!
    Tutto Pasta restaurant, 107 King Street

Thursday, March 3, 2011
Arts Day 2011

Starting at 8 am at Madison Concourse Hotel

  • Registration

8:30-10:15 am

  • Arts Day Legislative Breakfast
    8:30 am: Continental breakfast and networking
    9:15 am:
    • Featured speakers:
    - Sec. of Commerce Paul Jadin
    - Deputy Secretary of Tourism David Fantle
    - Wisconsin Arts Board Chair Barbara Lawton,
    - Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate
    - Christine Harris, Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, on the Milwaukee region's "Creativity Works" creative economy project
    • Performances by Spoken Word poets
    • Erick Maiden Jr. , Sun Prairie High School
    • Janise Tucker, LaFollette High School, Madison

10:30-11 am

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

  • Workshops for administrators and entrepreneurs
    #1: Revolutionize your technology, put all your data in one place with Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
    Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the most revolutionary new technology for the arts to come along in 50 years. Patron Technology Sales Manager Greg O'Neill will explain what it is and why it, along with “cloud computing,” offers an entirely new paradigm for running your organization. Get your ticketing, donations, e-mail and correspondence all in one place with CRM. For more information on Patron Technology and CRM, go to www.patrontechnology.com/
  • #2: Using acting tools in your life, work and community
    with Whitney Derendinger, actor and MFA student, UW-Madison
    This session will explore the ways that arts leaders can use the tools that actors use – physical exercises, psychological analysis, and research tools – in the "real world" beyond the theatre. Learn how to apply an actor’s tools to your life, work and community.

10 am-4 pm

  • Constituent meetings with legislators
    State Capitol

12:30 pm

  • Box lunch, reporting on legislative meetings, and informal conversation for Arts

 

1-2 pm

  • Box lunch, reporting on legislative meetings, and informal conversation for Arts Day participants and legislators
    Report back on your meetings with legislators, and relax and regroup with colleagues after a good day's work.
    Concourse Hotel

2 - 3 pm

  • Wisconsin emerging arts leaders conversati0n
    Concourse Hotel

2-4 pm:

  • Taking steps to create and sustain community change: local arts organizations as community-based resources, partners, and leaders (repeat of Wednesday's pre-Arts Day session)
    Concourse Hotel

Featured during the day at the Concourse Hotel:

  • Wisconsin Story Project's "Story Booth" - tell your stories about what the arts mean to you and your world!
  • Art-making with artists-in-residence GESWERK of Madison

  • Essential community arts publications for sale!
    from Arts Wisconsin