• Overview Advocacy Updates

ARTS DAY 2010

May 18-19, 2010

ADVOCACY TRAINING WORKSHOPS

• Winston-Salem: November 10, 2009
• Asheville: December 3, 2009
• [Check back soon for future workshop dates and locations]

ADVOCACY PRESENTATION:
SPEAK FOR THE ARTS

Click here to download this presentation
[PDF document].

ADVOCACY MATERIALS

• North Carolina Arts Council Creative Economy
   http://www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=319
• Americans for the Arts
   http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/advocate.asp
• National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
   http://www.nasaa-arts.org/
• Kennedy Center Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit
   http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/kcaaen/resources/ArtsEducationAdvocacyToolkit.pdf
• Arts Education Partnership
   http://www.aep-arts.org/resources/advocacy.htm
• Keep Arts in Schools
   http://www.keepartsinschools.org/

ARTS EDUCATION ADVOCACY MATERIALS

A NEW FOCUS

An Advocacy Plan is the “new” Strategic Plan. It’s hard to do business without one. Consider this: without an organized process for advocacy, how can the arts possibly compete in an environment of authentic scarcity? If this is true on the state political scene, how is it any less true in your community? We need strong advocacy practices in good times, but an intentional and focused plan is an imperative in 2010.
 
This Fall:

• Form an Advocacy Task Force
• Get up to speed on elections – forums and debates, candidates and their positions
• Meet with City Council, County Commissioners, and School Board members and take someone who supported their campaigns – financial records are available from the Board of Elections
• Answer this question in your way – how are the arts part of the solution?
• Weave the arts into every community meeting – show up and speak for the arts
• Write your Legislator – www.ncleg.net

Secretary of Cultural Resources Linda Carlisle and Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco at ARTS Day 2009

Live Expectantly.
 
Be Prepared.
 
Take Action.