ARTS ADVOCACY matter DAY MAR25 CITI WANG THEATRE | MA STATE HOUSE
Emcee: Joyce Kulhawik President, Boston Theater Critics’ Association
Hosted by: Joe Spaulding President & CEO Citi Performing Arts Center
Welcome • Sue Dahling Sullivan, Chief Strategic Officer, Citi Performing Arts Center • Rep. Cory Atkins, House Chair, Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development
Prepping for Meetings with the Legislators • Sara Stackhouse, Executive Producer, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, MASSCreative • Lauren Wolk, Associate Director, Cultural Center of Cape Cod • Shanelle Chloe Villegas, Senior, Boston Arts Academy • Emily Ruddock, Director of the Downtown Lynn Cultural District
Meeting with your Legislator • Matt Wilson, Executive Director, MASSCreative • Sen. Eric Lesser, Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development • Vanessa Snow, Manager of Organizing and Policy Initiatives, Hyde Square Task Force
Off to Beacon Hill • Julie Burros, Chief of Arts and Culture, Boston
#Arts Matter March to State House
Meetings with Legislators. Please report back to Room 511.
Tweet before your meeting: Celebrating #ArtsMatter Advocacy Day w/ @MASSCreative & meeting w/ [legislator Twitter handle] to talk about arts & culture in my community! Thank you to our #ArtsMatter Advocacy Day Partners Actors' Shakespeare Project Coolidge Corner Theatre notloB Music Adams-Anthony Center Cotuit Center for the Arts Now and There AHA! New Bedford Cultural Center of Cape Cod Old South Meeting House American Textile History Cultural Organization of Lowell Passim Museum Dance in the Schools Poetry in Edmands Park AQCA Diablo Glass School Project STEP Arlington International Film Downtown Lynn Cultural District Puppet Showplace Theater Festival Drama Studio Raw Art Works Arts | Learning Easthampton City Arts Revels Arts Connect International Eliot School of Fine & Applied Rose Kennedy Greenway Arts Extension Service Arts Conservancy Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Elliot Tailor Simple Gifts Coffee House ArtsBoston Enchanted Circle Theater Solas Nua in Boston ArtsWorcester Falmouth Artists Guild Somerville Arts Council Astonishing Inspirations Festival Creative South Shore Conservatory Available Potential Enterprises Fitchburg Art Museum Speak Up Spoken Word Open Ballets Russes Arts Initiative Fitchburg Artistree Mic Berkshire Creative Fort Point Arts Community StageSource Berkshire Museum Handel and Haydn Society The Ames Free Library Boston Art Dealers Association Hanover Theatre The Art Connection Boston Arts Academy Happy Tonics The Eric Carle Museum of Boston Baroque Harlo Design Studio Picture Book Art Boston Children's Museum HeArtful Theatre Company The Field Organization Boston Dance Alliance HobNob Artists Networking The Hanover Theatre Boston Gay Men's Chorus Holyoke Local Cultural Council The Massachusetts Educational Boston Lyric Opera Hyde Square Task Force Theater Guild Boston Public Schools In the Spotlight The Museum Calendar Boston University Arts Indian Hill Music The Music Box Administration Program Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival The Revolving Museum Boston Youth Symphony Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre The Umbrella Orchestras Joy of Music Tufts BEATS BostonAPP/Lab JP Honk Band UMass Lowell BRAIN Arts Org Judith Davidson Artists Unbound Visual Arts Bridge Repertory Theater Juventas New Music Ensemble Urban Beautification Initiative Brookline Music School KRAUS AND... Urban Culture Institute Brush Art Gallery and Studios Maud Morgan Arts Urbanity Dance BU Arts Initiative Mid-Cape Cultural Council Urbano Project Cambridge Arts Council MOMologues Productions USS Constitution Museum Cape Ann Chamber of Montserrat College of Art Waterfront Historic Area League Commerce Museum of African American (WHALE) Cape Conservatory History Wayland Cultural Council Cape School of Art New Bedford Art Museum/ Wilson-Kindelan School Celebrity Series of Boston ArtWorks! WIREFOREST Central Square Theater New Bedford Local Cultural Worcester Center for Crafts Children's Museum in Easton Council Worcester Cultural Coalition Citi Performing Arts Center New England Museum Young Audiences of City of Pittsfield Office of Association Massachusetts Cultural Development New Repertory Theatre ZUMIX Community Arts Center Newburyport Literary Festival Coolidge Corner Community Northampton Arts Council Chorus Northeast Art