Join the Movement: Host Your Own Creative Conversation

Includes a Live Event on 08/15/2018 at 3:00 PM (EDT)

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About this Webinar

August 15, 2018 at 3:00PM

Are you interested in hosting a Creative Conversation in your community? Creative Conversations are a great way to connect your local community to a grassroots movement, elevating the profile of the arts in your community and across the country. Join us for a webinar with Emerging Leaders Council Members Brea Heidelberg and Todd Trebour as we take a look at the Creative Conversation process. Learn best practices for hosting your own Creative Conversation, including topics to cover, who to partner with, formatting options, and more. We’ll also take a trip down memory lane as we look at case studies of previous successful Creative Conversations.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn what a Creative Conversation is.
Participants will learn best practices in creating and executing a Creative Conversation.
Participants will hear case studies of successful Creative Conversations.

Brea Heidelberg

Assistant Professor & Associate Program Director, Drexel University

Brea M. Heidelberg is an arts management educator, consultant, and researcher. She is currently Assistant Professor & Associate Program Director of the Entertainment & Arts Management program at Drexel University. She is a board member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, where she serves as Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. She also serves on Americans for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders Council and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Arts Management. Dr. Heidelberg earned her PhD in Arts Administration, Education and Policy from The Ohio State University and a MS in Human Resource Development from Villanova University. She is the Founder and Principal of ISO Arts Consulting. Her research interests include professional development issues facing arts administrators, human resources issues facing arts & cultural institutions, organizational resistance to equity initiatives, arts advocacy rhetoric, and (inter)national cultural diplomacy.

Twitter: @BMHeidelberg

Todd Trebour

Organizations Program Director, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

Todd Trebour is the Organizations Program Director at the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA). Todd manages and oversees the agency’s support for organizations, including granting programs. He also works within state government and in the public to identify new opportunities and provide educational support for arts and culture organizations.

Prior to RISCA, Todd was the Program Coordinator for the UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service (AES). Through his work at AES, Todd helped artists and arts students build vibrant careers and businesses through arts management and arts entrepreneurship courses, trainings, and programming, both on-campus, regionally, and online. Before working with AES, Todd was the marketing and development director at Chester Theatre Company (CTC), a professional summer theatre company in the mountain town of Chester, MA.

Twitter: @RISCA1967

Website: http://www.arts.ri.gov/