Northwest Regional Chapter Retreat

 

As a 2008 Chapter Project grant recipient, the Northwest Chapter of the Guild (NWT) will present its first ever Northwest Regional Chapter Retreat. The program will include local tours, opportunity for network & exchange with community arts education leaders, and an intensive professional development workshop on increasing diversity, participation, earned revenue, and support of community arts education. The 5-hour workshop will be conducted by expert facilitator/consultant and Chief Knowledge Officer of MeaningMatters, Jerry Yoshitomi.

Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Time: Beginning at 9:00 AM
Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center – 1902 Main Street – Seattle, WA 98144
Register: Click here for the registration link.
 

Registration will open on Monday, June 2 and close on Monday, July 7. Please note, space is limited for this event. For further details, contact Kelly McHugh, Program Associate at (212) 268-3337 x12 or kellymchugh@nationalguild.org.

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Retreat Schedule

About the Workshop

Travel & Accommodations

About the Northwest Regional Chapter

 

Retreat Schedule

Time

Agenda Item

Fee

9:00 - 10:00 AM Tour of Pratt Fine Arts Center None
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM Professional Development Workshop with Jerry Yoshitomi

Members: $50

Nonmembers: $75

3:15 - 4:15 PM Peer Networking & Exchange None
4:30 - 6:00 PM Tour of Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park
None
6:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner (Restaurant TBD)
Dutch Treat

Click to download flyer

 

Both members & nonmembers are encouraged to register your executive directors, trustees, program, development & marketing staff, and other interested faculty. Please also feel free to extend an invitation to representatives from collaborative organizations. All are welcome to attend!

Interested in joining the Guild as a member? Download our Info Packet or click here.

 

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About the Workshop

Developing New Capacities that will

Increase Participation and Earned Income

Workshop Participants will:

  • Learn new approaches and technologies to expand audiences and income
  • Address the barriers that discourage participation and the drivers that encourage participation
  • Gain skills to innovate new services/programs or add value to existing ones;
  • Better reveal the benefits and value artists have already provided to customers, audiences, students, parents, etc.

Through interactive methods and online tools, you will learn and develop new techniques based on current research and innovative practice from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and North America.


Quotes from evaluations after a recent workshop in Toronto:

 

Jerry Yoshitomi is an independent cultural facilitator/consultant engaged by foundations, public arts agencies, and arts organizations to research and provoke innovative new practices. Over ten thousand arts professionals, artists, and arts organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have successfully implemented methods from his writings and workshops to increase attendance, as well as earned and contributed income. Jerry was lead consultant on information and network strategies for LINC—Leveraging Investments in Creativity—a national initiative to improve the lives/conditions of artists. He is the facilitator for a collaborative of Performing Arts Presenters at major research universities and served as facilitator for the START (State Arts Agency) Initiative of the Wallace Foundation, managed by Arts Midwest. Mr. Yoshitomi also chaired the National Task Force on Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts, resulting in the 1989 seminal report, An American Dialogue. He chaired three panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, served four years on the California Arts Council, was treasurer of the Music Center of Los Angeles County, and was the executive director of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles. Jerry is also a member of the planning committee for the National Arts Marketing Project Conference.

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Travel & Accommodations

The following are just a few options located nearby the Retreat:


King’s Inn
2106 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 441-8833


Hotel 1000
1000 First Avenue Seatte, WA 98104
(206) 957-1000


Panama Hotel
605 1/2 South Main Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 223-9242


Map of Pratt

For those traveling from Portland, OR, the trip to Seattle is approximately 3 hours.

Seattle Amtrak Station (SEA)

303 South Jackson Street, King Street Station - Seattle WA 98104

Sea-Tac Airport

Main Terminal Building, 17801 International Blvd./ Pacific Highway S. - Seattle, WA 98158

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Parking

Free parking available on-site at Pratt

Directions

To Olympic Sculpture Park from Pratt Fine Arts Center

 

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About the Chapter


The Northwest (NWT) Regional Chapter of the Guild is made up of member organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Twice a year, these organizations come together to share information and ideas, gain skills, provide mutual support and inspiration, and achieve common goals.


Chapter Chair: Kristen Murphy, Director, University of Puget Sound Community Music Department, Tacoma, WA
Vice Chair: Greg Dubay, Director, Community Music Center, Portland, OR

Members can search & download a list of members in their Chapter by logging in and using the Advanced Member Search

Nonmembers can browse our online Member Directory by clicking “Find a Member” on the upper left-hand column of this page.

 

Learn more about the Guild's programs & services here.

 

The NWT Regional Chapter's next meeting will take place at the 2008 Conference for Community Arts Education, October 29-November 1 in Philadelphia, PA.  We hope to see you there!

 

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