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Arts Community Check-in

 

In 2021, Creative Portland will convene the arts community on three separate occasions, in addition to hosting smaller branding workgroups, curatorial teams, and steering committees.

 
 

#1 - ARTS COMMUNITY CHECK-IN

March 22, 2021 | 3:00 - 5:00 pm

(past event geared toward artists and attended by over 100 participants)

 

#2 - REOPEN & REVIVE

Monday, June 21, 2021 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm

An Arts Community Zoom webinar designed to assemble cultural leaders and artists. The agenda will include reports & guidelines for reopening, resources for showcasing visual & performing arts, grant resources, community news, and a project overview of the new Portland Arts & Culture App (aka PAC app), currently in development.
 
Registration required on Eventbrite (note: reminders will be sent on June 14 and June 21).
 
If you are an artist or cannot afford the $10 ticket price, use the promo code "ARTIST" at checkout. When the ticket options appear, click Enter promo code (in the upper left corner, above the first ticket option).
 
 

#3 - FOURTH ANNUAL ARTS & CULTURE SUMMIT

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location TBD.
 
Agenda and registration will open in late August.
 

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS:

 

 

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1910

 

Thank you for joining us! 

 

Has it already been a year of pandemic shutdowns? Feeling like a caged animal? Anxious to see your friends again? Missing in-person concerts, readings, performances, art exhibitions? Want to hear how your community partners and fellow artists are doing?

 

Creative Portland is hosting a discussion, shaped by an arts community steering group, to listen and understand how the community is feeling at the one-year anniversary of the pandemic. Artists, Arts administrators, cultural leaders, arts patrons and community stakeholders are invited to attend. Pay what you can to help offset expenses for our facilitators. Artists (of all genres) are admitted for free. 

Steering group: Christian Adame, Portland Museum of Art; Kelsey Halliday-Johnson, SPACE; Reza Jalali, Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center; Blainor McGough, Mayo Street Arts; Dinah Minot, Creative Portland; & Daniel Minter, Indigo Arts Alliance.

 

Facilitators: Carole Martin & Keita Whitten

 

AGENDA

Part 1:

3:00 - 3:05 pm: Welcome by Dinah Minot, Creative Portland

3:05 - 3:30 pm: Artists and cultural leaders share two minutes each 

3:30 - 4:00 pm: Facilitator Carole Martin opens up the floor for public comments/community share

 

FIVE MINUTE BREAK

 

Part 2: 

4:10-5:00 pm: Facilitator Keita Whitten invites shares based on topic prompts:

  • Economic & Financial Fears

  • Equity & Racial Issues

  • Balancing Family/Domestic Duties with Work/Practice

  • Well-being, Loneliness, and Personal Fears