Arts advocates from all disciplines – youth arts educators, community leaders, funders, decision-makers, influencers.
We’re coming together to discuss how we can create, nurture and maintain vibrant and sustainable arts education programs.
Why?
Because youth arts education programs carry a massive value for our communities. Because as financial challenges mount, our resources are cut and our need to find ways to simply survive becomes more urgent with each day. Because we must recognize opportunities to preserve what we have and build upon it for the future.
Where?
With the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center as a backdrop, Thrive invites you to join in the collaboration as we discuss and learn new methods that will build and preserve vital youth arts education programs.
How?
At Thrive, featured experts who live this mission every day will unite to lead sessions detailing how we can:
- Learn to overcome financial and facility challenges
- Discover new approaches to fund development
- Join our peers to learn and adopt new principles and ideas
- Stimulate creative and strategic thinking to solve today’s real problems
- Use performance collaboration to do more with less
Who?
In 2002, Milwaukee’s First Stage Children’s Theater and the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra came together to form a new non-profit organization – the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. The effort would culminate in the 2005 opening of a new facility catering to the collaborative needs of both organizations. It would become a thriving example of how collaboration between organizations of any kind can help position them to flourish and make an even greater impact in the community.
When?
October 14 – 16, 2010.
Join us. Bring your ideas. Inspire each other. Learn collaborative techniques that can enhance, sustain and help grow your organization – all so you can continue to elevate your mission – bringing the finest arts education and opportunities to express, perform and learn to our communities.
