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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 02:45 PM (PT)
San Jose, CA
California spends three cents per person from the State’s General Fund for the California Arts Council, less than any other U.S. state or territory. How are cities and counties addressing this gap in the California arts infrastructure? What strategies for local public and private philanthropy are being developed? This Symposium, highlighting the experience of Santa Clara County, will explore the value of the arts for youth development, tourism, economic development and the quality of life in our communities.
Speakers include Larry Stone, Santa Clara County Assessor and a founder of Arts Council Silicon Valley; Bruce Davis, Executive Director of Arts Council Silicon Valley; Connie Martinez, Executive Director of 1stAct Silicon Valley; Kim Walesh, Assistant Director of the San Jose Office of Economic Development; Ruth Tunstall-Grant, Member of the San Jose Arts Commission and Director of the Art Education Program at Children’s Shelter of Santa Clara County; and Mark Walker, Managing Director, Global Community Affairs at Applied Materials. Alma Robinson, Executive Director of California Lawyers for the Arts, will moderate the panel.
This program will be taped by the Instructional Media division of the Santa Clara County Office of Education for local viewing and distribution to cable access stations statewide. Pre-registration for this event implies your agreement to allow yourself to be video taped and your image broadcasted. Please arrive before 2:45pm as taping will be begin promptly at 3:00 pm.
A reception will follow at the conclusion of the program.
Funding for this program has been provided by the Quentin Hancock Fund, Arts Council Silicon Valley and the members of California Lawyers for the Arts.
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Please submit a question for to the panel.: What is the outlook for state funding in the arts and why? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How is green technology playing a role in the arts and economic development? Please submit a question for to the panel.: On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate corporate philanthropy in the arts in Silicon Valley and why? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How can our Cogswell College students get involved? Please submit a question for to the panel.: What are the new trends in arts education and job generation activities in the arts? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How has the CAC budget affected art and healthy communities in California? Which arts groups have been affected most? In comparison to other state's arts councils, what are they doing to be more successful and is there anything that we can learn from them? Please submit a question for to the panel.: Speak to the creative way in which Government,Private & Non-Profit agencies will collaborate to institute change and growth.And what measures for intersection and funding are being developed at this time. Please submit a question for to the panel.: What is the most effective way for me as an individual to promote art in my community? Please submit a question for to the panel.: 1. "Broadly understood as affective and expressive, not academic or cognitive? (not my thoughts), the arts survive at the margins of education as curriculum enrichment, a frill, or electives for the talented…What evidence do we have that shows that the arts can have powerful effects on student achievement, academically, socially and emotionally? 2. In times of scarce economies, not enough money, time, test score improvements, etc., how can we advocate or even justify maintaining and sustaining our current arts infrastructure in the schools, and in the local community? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How can I as an individual affect funding of the arts at both the local and state level of government? Please submit a question for to the panel.: Outsourcing of the entertainment industry will be a challenge for tomorrow's high school and college graduates. How can we leverage our lead in creativity and innovative thinking to maintain local career employment opportunities? Please submit a question for to the panel.: With respect to limited resources and an eye for avoiding duplication of services, where should local municipalities concentrate their efforts to support the arts? Please submit a question for to the panel.: What can we as a community do to ensure that arts remain a focus in our children's educational system? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How does the arts community convey the vital role of art and culture to the vibrancy of a community to government and big corporations; and their role in supporting the arts community? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How do we compare to Third World countries on government spending for the Arts? Please submit a question for to the panel.: How is impact on "health" to be evaluated? Is there and instrument? What would the "outputs" and "outcomes" be? |
California Lawyers for the Arts is a statewide, non-profit, tax-exempt organization, founded in 1974 as Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts, that seeks to develop greater awareness and involvement by the legal community to the needs and interests of artists and arts organizations, and provides legal services and educational programs to the arts community so that they may gain greater competency in handling the legal and business aspects of their creative activities.
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