Topics of Interest
- Cultural Planning in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Arts Advocacy and Arts Education
- New York City Opera makes a comeback despite the weather
- Unlocking the code words and phrases used so often in nonprofit and arts organization
Cultural Planning
Here’s some information on cultural planning you can make part of a class discussion or a research project. The City of Raleigh Cultural Plan 2016 offers ample evidence on how to go about doing a plan and then implementing it. As you will see, it was a 2-plus year process.
This topic connects well to chapter 4 on arts adaptation and chapter 5 on planning. The Implementation Matrix on pages 68 to 72 of the report shows the eight goals of the plan, along with what are called “Goals and Strategies.” While not detailed, the matrix has many action verbs and generally clear statements about what outcomes are being sought and over how long a time period. Download a PDF of the 86-page Cultural Plan and explore the full report.
Topics for class discussions . . .
Arts Education Not Left Behind, NYC Opera Come Back, and Decoding Nonprofit Terms
Next Steps in Closing the Gaps in Arts Education in Our Schools
01/20/2016 01:58 pm ET, Huffington Post Arts & Culture
Jesse Rosen, President & CEO, League of American Orchestras
Orchestras across the U.S. were thrilled when their advocacy efforts paid off as a new education law — called the Every Student Succeeds Act — received bi-partisan support from the House and Senate and was signed into law on December 10, 2015 by President Obama. On the long load to rewriting what is currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act, the nation’s orchestras — in partnership with arts advocates nationwide — made contact thousands of times with Congress, calling on policymakers to close gaps in access to arts education in our nation’s public schools. Link to “Next Steps…”
New York City Opera Will Return, and Soon, Under Reorganization Plan
By MICHAEL COOPERJAN. 12, 2016, New York Times
New York City Opera is coming back under new management.
The venerable opera company — which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013 after a series of missteps left it unable to put on its season — will soon be revived in a different form under a reorganization plan confirmed Tuesday by Judge Sean H. Lane of United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
The group taking over the company, NYC Opera Renaissance, hopes to use the City Opera name by next week, when it plans to present Puccini’s “Tosca” on Jan. 20-24 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. If all goes smoothly, company officials said, they hope their new “Tosca” can be billed a co-production of NYCO Renaissance and City Opera. The plan calls for putting on annual seasons. Link to NYT article: “New York City Opera…”
Common nonprofit terms and concepts and what they actually mean
Feb. 1, 2016 Nonprofit With Balls
Last, but not least, you can have a discussion (and some laughs) pondering the meaning behind the many of phrases used in the arts and nonprofit sector at a blog posting at Nonprofit With Balls . You will find a fun list of what is really meant by such phrases as “Salary commensurate with experience,” or “Our board of directors is engaged and empowered.” As you read many of these “translations,” they ring so true it is scary.