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Colorado Creative Industries is creating its next strategic plan, and we need your input on what’s working well, what’s needed, and what big ideas we should consider. Join a public conversation and help shape our statewide priorities. How’s Colorado’s arts and culture sector doing today? What are our biggest needs and opportunities? How can Colorado Creative Industries support the statewide arts, culture and creative industries ecosystem? You tell us! Take the survey by August 8, 2024 👉 https://lnkd.in/gx2VEKfx

Colorado Creative Industries is creating its next strategic plan, and we need your input on what’s working well, what’s needed, and what big ideas we should consider. Join a public conversation and help shape our statewide priorities. How’s Colorado’s arts and culture sector doing today? What are our biggest needs and opportunities? How can Colorado Creative Industries support the statewide arts, culture, and creative industries ecosystem? You tell us! Take the survey by August 8, 2024 👉 https://lnkd.in/gx2VEKfx

Colorado Colorado Creative Industries is creating its next strategic plan, and needs your input on what’s working well, what’s needed, and what big ideas we should consider. Join a public conversation and help shape statewide priorities. How’s Colorado’s arts and culture sector doing today? What are our biggest needs and opportunities? How can Colorado Creative Industries support the statewide arts, culture and creative industries ecosystem? Let them know! Take the survey by August 8, 2024 https://bit.ly/3Ajx2G3

Colorado Creative Industries is creating its next strategic plan, and they need your input on what’s working well, what’s needed, and what big ideas we should consider. Join a public conversation and help shape our statewide priorities. How’s Colorado’s arts and culture sector doing today? What are our biggest needs and opportunities? How can Colorado Creative Industries support the statewide arts, culture and creative industries ecosystem? Take the survey by August 8, 2024 https://lnkd.in/gx2VEKfx

There’s one point made in this article that really hits home: “More and more people leave our presentations, productions, and concerts with an incomplete understanding of the work(s) of art they saw. They might have missed some of the dialogue, never understood the relationships between characters, never had the benefit of knowing the work’s historical significance, or never figured out what motivated the director’s interpretation of the work. They didn’t arrive early enough for the pre-performance talk or have time to read the program notes. So, they went home having had a partially impactful experience and probably a lot of unanswered questions. Are our programs only for those with insider knowledge who can “figure it out” on their own? Any hope of sustaining and diversifying public support for arts programming, in the long run, will require us to support audiences in entirely new ways.” Last weekend I saw the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band whose concert program listed the pieces being performed without program notes. But they made up for this by introducing and discussing each piece before being performed. For each piece they explained its composer, history, meaning, and the story it aims to tell. As someone who has studied these types of works, it still left me feeling more complete at the end of the performance. Imagine the impacts it had for those in the audience who aren’t as familiar. This is the #connection piece. This is how we start to break down the elitist barriers that come with the orchestra world, especially when performing the traditional masterworks. #audiencedevelopment #audienceengagement #audiencesupport

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Storytelling through our childhood toys. If we think of powerful stories in our personal and business lives as clearly defined as Origin Stories/ Journey Stories and Hero stories... all three are combined when we look at what our childhood toys represent...what were we playing with, building, taking apart or creating as kids? It shapes our stories, outlook and curiosity as adults. My new production at Edinburgh Fringe (August 24) explores all of these questions... our future stories shaped by our past... https://lnkd.in/e783EATe

Just launched the new Society Review website. My idea of a 21st-century magazine consists of three pillars: 1. The Magazine itself, featuring original thoughts on the most interesting stories of our time. 2. Programs that study particular topics over a long period to produce valuable insights. 3. Live Events that engage people directly and invite them to "join the discussion." So whether you want to read a definitive Chronicle of human civilization, explore the 24 World Districts that make up around 95% of our population, or discover forgotten cinematic masterpieces curated by a New Yorker playwright, SocietyReview.org will be your first address.

On March 18, Frank McCourt, founder of Project Liberty and founding donor of the McCourt School, will engage in a thought-provoking discussion with Norah O'Donnell, Anchor and Managing Editor of CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, on technology, democracy and the future of the internet. Their conversation will dive into the critical themes explored in McCourt's powerful new book, "OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age." https://bit.ly/3VoU7jt

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