Friday,June 12th

8:30 a.m. –3:00 p.m. 

atthe Japanese American Cultural and Community Center

244S. San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo, downtown, LA (between 2nd and 3rd Streets)

Parking is available in nearby lots.  Click here for google map.  

Registration is now closed.

Hearfrom leading arts policy makers, advocates and funders and learn aboutimportant trends and initiatives that will impact Los Angeles artists and artsorganizations alike!

Thedaylong convening of arts professionals will feature a keynote address by Americansfor the Arts President & CEO, Robert Lynch, a morning plenary sessionon the future of arts funding in Los Angeles by key arts leaders and anafternoon series of concurrent breakout sessions geared toward empowering thesector to identify new models in a shifting landscape.

Morningpanelists include:

• John McGuirk, Program Director, The James Irvine Foundation

• Claire Peeps, Executive Director, Durfee Foundation

• Judilee Reed, Executive Director, Leveraging Investments in Creativity

• Laura Zucker, Executive Director, Los Angeles County Arts Commission

PlenarySession Moderator: Cora Mirikitani, President and CEO, Center forCultural Innovation

Anafternoon series of concurrent breakout sessions will follow the plenarysession.

The2009 L.A. Arts Town Hall is presented by Arts for LA and the Center forCultural Innovation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts,The James Irvine Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Department of CulturalAffairs and Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

ADMISSIONIS FREE BUT PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

If your plans have changed and you are no longer able to attend the session/s for which you RSVPd, please click here to email staff.

  Afternoon Sessions

Limited seating is available for each session.  Attendees must register to be guaranteed a seat.  

Click for session descriptions

Session A: “Arts Advocacy and Cultural Planning”
- Organized by Arts for LA

Session B: “Capacity Building Strategies and Models for Sustainability”
- Organized by LA Stage Alliance & Department of Cultural Affairs

Session C: "The Future of Dance in Southern California - Strategies for Bootstrapping an Artists’ Community"
- Southern California Dance Futures Fund and Center for Cultural Innovation

Session D: “Arts Education”
- Organized by Arts for All and the Music Center Arts Edcation Department

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was launched in 2001 to promote knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants and loans, and incubating innovative projects that create new program knowledge, tools and practices for artists in the field.

Arts for LA is a 5 01(c)(3) nonprofit arts advocacy organization working to foster a healthy environment in which arts and culture in our region may thrive and be accessible to all in Los Angeles.