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  • From: Sally Greene <sgreene AT townofchapelhill.org>
  • To: Jeff York <jyork AT townofchapelhill.org>
  • Cc: "chpac-staff AT lists.ibiblio.org" <chpac-staff AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Chpac-staff] Cultural arts and revised Council goals
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:44:12 +0000

“What is living in poverty if not constantly being creative?”

also,

“Is your imagination broken?”

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/19/why-art-matters-even-poverty


> On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Jeff York <jyork AT townofchapelhill.org> wrote:
>
> Sally,
>
>
> Thank you for your advocacy for the arts. I am thrilled to see that one
> of the Council goals for a place for everyone will include more of an
> emphasis on the arts in CH. As we continue to work on the draft arts plan,
> the value of partnerships and community involvement objectives seem to be
> rising to the top. I too am disappointed about the public meeting at the
> Jackson Center. It was cancelled at their request. They reached out to a
> number of community people and due to their schedules, they were not able
> to commit to that date. It has been rescheduled for May 5th when the
> community organizers feel more community members will be able to attend.
>
> We are currently working with different artists on projects in the Roger
> Road community. We are supporting a project with Karen youth and young
> adults, whereby they are creating a dual Karen/English language book about
> farming that feature illustrations and photos supplied by the Karen
> participants in the project. This is also a collaboration with FRANK
> gallery. A second project is a joint project with the Roger's Road
> Community Center and PORCH and consists of a series of 10 afterschool
> workshops with predominantly African America youth working on dying and
> printing on cloth to eventually illustrate a book about the Neighborhood.
>
>
> Jeffrey J. York
> Public & Cultural Arts Administrator
> Cultural Arts
> Parks & Recreation Department
> Town of Chapel Hill
> 200 Plant Road
> Chapel Hill, NC 27514
> Phone: (919) 968-2750
> Fax: (919) 932-2923
> .
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chpac-staff [mailto:chpac-staff-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Sally Greene
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:00 AM
> To: chpac-staff AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Chpac-staff] Cultural arts and revised Council goals
>
> Dear all,
>
> I look forward to Wednesday’s meeting. Sorry to see the Hargraves listening
> session cancelled, but look forward to it when it happens.
>
> At a recent work session, the Council had a conversation about revising its
> goals for the coming two years. We have not formally adopted them, but we
> will soon. I wanted you all to note that a new goal, under the 2020
> category of “Create a place for everyone,” will be:
>
> “Leverage partnerships to increase cultural arts opportunities to enhance
> civic engagement.”
>
> In advocating for this specific policy goal, for which there was broad
> support among my colleagues, I referenced the move that Smart Growth
> America has just made in hiring into a new position of director of arts and
> culture:
>
> http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/2016/03/24/smart-growth-america-and-transportation-for-america-welcome-a-new-director-of-arts-culture/
>
> I particularly emphasized this passage:
>
> "Investing time and money into the arts and culture has an economic payoff,
> but it also has an important civic function: it builds resilience in
> communities. Research shows that demographically diverse neighborhoods are
> more civically healthy than homogenous neighborhoods. The arts and culture
> help build bridges between diverse neighbors, increasing participation in
> everything from voting and volunteering to work on community projects. To
> put it simply, the arts and culture help neighbors get to know and trust
> one another.”
>
> In other words, without detracting or subtracting from current/future
> efforts to promote, support, enact and perform the arts in the ways that we
> have been doing (which we often cite for the “economic payoff” in terms of
> tourism, also economic returns to the artists, etc.), this proposed policy
> goal would expand that mandate to include supporting cultural arts
> programming as a civic value.
>
> Essential to making that component of our arts planning work, in my
> opinion, is strengthening the bonds of collaboration among existing
> cultural arts activities: hence the connection to the Jackson
> Center/Hargraves/Northside is a great step. There are also the existing
> youth/teen activities, which were a particular interest of Mayor
> Kleinschmidt’s, and about which I need to learn more. (The Youth Community
> Project’s youth artist silent auction at the ArtsCenter a couple of weeks
> ago was fabulous.)
>
> The benefits of coordination were obvious, and critical, recently in
> Baltimore, as the very interesting story below demonstrates. Without an
> existing network, it would have been impossible to mobilize the way they
> did in a time of crisis. We surely hope never to see a crisis like the one
> that happened in Baltimore, but the message is that the arts network is a
> critical element in the fabric of community—at least, it should be.
>
> http://blog.americansforthearts.org/2016/04/15/serving-communities-stewarding-public-investment-in-the-arts
>
> That article is from the blog of American for the Arts, which is a strong
> advocate of this type of community work. I was hoping to go to the
> conference in June, but turned out to have a conflict. I understand Steve
> will be going to represent us, and that’s great. Looking forward to talking
> with him about what he can bring back to us from that experience.
>
> See you all tomorrow, and thanks for all you do, Sally
>
>
>
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