Monday, November 16, 2009

Locating Creavity: Wednesday 5:30PM. (Be there.)


We've lined up a lot of great community members to join our conversation this Wednesday night at Real Art Ways. The main panelist will be David Panagore from the City of Hartford - talking in part about the "One City One Plan" initiative, and also about the city might be able to tap into the creative class that exists in Hartford. As we've mentioned before, at Where We Live we like to benchmark. Not to say that cities like Worcester, Northampton or Providence are the same as Hartford - and that works for them will work for us. But inspiration is not a bad thing. Stephanie Fortunato will join us from Providence, to talk about the "Creative Providence" campaign, and we'll hear excerpts from an interview with Charles Landry, an international expert on city transformation, author of "The Art of City Making" and "The Creative City". (Hear the whole interview at our website).


Hope to see you on Wednesday! Leave your comments and questions...

2 comments:

Jude said...

Nice event. I would encourage folks to think about the concept of "silos" not simply based on geography / location, but also across interests or activities. There are vibrant mini-communities out there - music (multiple genres), theater, performance, spirituality, visual arts, physical activities, etc. Yet to date these have not added up to a vibrant creative culture.....

cc said...

Attended the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts open house last night. What a wonderful program! I would be thrilled to send my daughter there - would even pay tuition. Unfortunately, they typically have 500+ applications for 100 freshman seats (assigned by lottery). Of those 100 seats, 40% are for Hartford students and 60% are available to students from 55 surrounding communities. Looked to see what other opportunities are available in CT for an arts-centric high school education and wasn't able to find anything - particularly for visual arts - other than a magnet school in New Haven with similarly few seats. Too bad there aren't more options in CT or a larger program at GHAA since there is clearly demand. Perhaps the "brain drain" starts even younger for students who must look to Boston or New York for the opportunity for a high school arts education.

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