Meeting notes from the February 21, 2005 Arts & Entertainment Roundtable meeting, Peter B Lewis Building, University Circle, hosted by the Case Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI)
Attendees:
Jerome Smith, Poise Entertainment
Dave Stack
Jackie Cleveland Magazine
Nancy Cronin, Civic advocate
Kevin Cronin; arts theater, city wide coalition of arts organization & theatres
Amin Varghai, REALNEO
Betsey Merkel
Susan Althsuler
Review of the Open Source Economic Development Pdf. and the Strategic Learning Pdf.
Points:
The value of many and diverse ideas and perspectives
Technology platforms:
* REALNEO
* Wiki
Review of new ideas:
Jerome Smith: arts & entertainment and the opportunities for certification to accelerate employment in the industry
Frank Fantozzi; review of the Arts & Entertainment Center proposal
The A&E Roundtable can review proposals and ideas. Practice a bi-weekly meeting schedule.
Tim community development, housing and economic development focus. Realizes importance of arts & entertainment are to a successful region, strengthening neighborhoods, public arts
References:
Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Questions to adddress:
* What could an A&E R do?
* Universities Collaborative
* What opportunities do you see?
* Who else would you like to see in the room?
* Who are you collaborating with?
* Who are you not talking to but would like to?
* How can REI assist you in your efforts?
Commentary:
Jerry Smith: Every art venture should pull all people together and pool public art
Cleveland Music School Settlement (CMSS), Rainey Institute: address the birth to death cycle
Innovation Festival T Mulready and J Levine coming this summer.
Susan Miller: identify and strengthen arts education networks
Bringing arts activities to the forefront of conversations
Opportunities for the A&E Roundtable to build a global leader in this industry:
- get the word out about activities to the region via the media
- support creativity everywhere
- promote A & E as a bigger part of business and education
- define the value to the region and educational development
- design a system of higher financial return for artists
- appreciate the value of a 1st time experience
- gather festival leaders together, replicate models and create networks with the arts org/individuals
- incorporate public art into the community and pedestrian settings: ie. Clev Magazine which publishes a gallery as well as a regional performance guide
- NEO needs a BHAG that is diverse and far reaching
Follow up:
- Online versions of discussions
- Consider the University Collaborative as a regional venue
- Internship opportunities
- University Circle, Inc. (UCI) could be a resource for the Universities Collaborative
- Design and implement cool ideas for a NEO Visitor pkg
- Create a special region, diverse, sports, arts & entertainment
- Highlight the importance of public art
- Build a cultural, global attraction and strengthen neighborhoods
- Innovation Festival lead by Cool Cleveland's Tom Mulready & James Levine
- Build awareness about creative dance pre-school/young
- Strengthen arts educ networks
- Gallery hop
- Bringing existing arts activities forward advanced to a new level
- Spin off of an arts events i.e. Sparx in the Suburbs/vignettes
- Create a map plug the ideas into the investment quadrants to get a better view of where the investments are being made
- We need a technology platform
- Plugged In platform Dave to bring a draft framework talk about global models
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