The afternoon sessions are a staging area for long-term discussions.  As both informational meetings and forums for engaged thinking, the sessions aim to connect people and empower them to continue these dialogues beyond the Town Hall. 

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Session A: Arts Advocacy and Cultural Planning

Never before has cultural planning and advocacy been so important to the arts and cultural sector.   This interactive session will include a brief report on Arts for LA's policy platform, a demonstration of Actions 2.0, the new E-Advocacy center that connects constituents with local policy makers, illustrate indicators of a successful advocacy campaign and solicit feedback on how our collective human resources can leverage greater support for arts and arts education in Los Angeles County. 

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Arts for LA is a 501(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.

Session B: Capacity Building Strategies and Models for Sustainability

This session will offer organization managers an opportunity to hear about how a selection of others are changing their practices to become more sustainable. Testimonials will be given by 5 or more attendees in three categories: Organization Evolution, Working Smarter, and Entrepreneurial Innovations. the final 30-minutes of the session will be a roundtable dialogue about the ideas presented, time to introduce related concepts and open discussion.

Session organized by LA Stage Alliance and the Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles.

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	LA Stage Alliance (LASA) is a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization dedicated to building awareness, appreciation and support for the performing arts in Greater Los Angeles through community building, collaborative marketing, audience development, professional development to strengthen operations for members and advocacy. LASA serves over 325 organizational members (professional, educational and community-based producing and presenting performing arts organizations) annually in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura and individual members comprised of local, regional, national and international performing arts patrons.
	The goal of the Department of Cultural Affairs is to enhance the quality of life for Los Angeles' 4 million residents and 25 million annual visitors. They accomplish this goal by generating and supporting high quality arts and cultural experiences.

Session C: The Future of Dance in Southern California - Strategies for Bootstrapping an Artists’ Community

The Southern California dance community has been engaged in a year-long planning effort to consider how dance creation, participation, funding, presentation, companies and audiences can be strengthened.  Findings from a recent report, A New Architecture for Dance in Southern California, will be presented, and the field's feedback solicited.  This session will also include discussion of current conditions in the dance field, potential solutions, and challenges and opportunities for application of new strategies to other artists' communities.

Session Organized By: Southern California Dance Futures Fund and Center for Cultural Innovation

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C+PG	The Cultural Planning Group works with leading arts and cultural organizations, philanthropic foundations, and government agencies to strengthen arts and cultural communities and economies.
	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.

Session D: Arts Education

This session will focus on key challenges and opportunities in arts education today.  Session organizers are the Education Department at the Music Center and Arts for All. 

	The Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County believes the arts enhance the lives of all people and are crucial to the development of every child. The arts are a powerful tool to communicate our own ideas and to understand the perspectives and experiences of others.
	Arts for All is the Los Angeles county regional blueprint for arts education.   Arts for All provides a series of policy changes and educational initiatives to create systemic change and institutionalize sequential, K-12 arts education, in Los Angeles County school districts, based on the Visual and Performing Arts Standards for California Public Schools.

Session E: Open Space and Networking Room

The Arts Town Hall will provide tables for self-organized discussion and networking.