The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
and Seattle Arts Commission invite you to:
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SAVE THE DATE!
December 6-7, 2011 |
Cultural Space Seattle
A two-day event to help shape policies to keep and create affordable space for artists and arts organizations to work, rehearse and perform in Seattle. Hear from national and local cultural space leaders; discuss policy, funding and program models; and learn about current cultural space projects.
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Keynote address by Theaster Gates, artist and cultural planner.
Panel discussion, Q&A and reception to follow. Free and open to the public.
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Theaster Gates. Photo by Lloyd De Grane/University of Chicago Magazine
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Theaster Gates is an artist, musician, and cultural planner. In his performances, installations, and urban interventions, Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions and perceptions. When not making art for museums, Theaster is committed to the restoration of poor black neighborhoods, converting abandoned buildings into cultural spaces that allow not only new cultural moments to happen in unexpected places, but raising the city's expectations of where "place-making" happens and why. He is president and founder of the Rebuild Foundation, as well as director of arts program development at the University of Chicago.
Build on the evening forum. Dig deeper and determine next steps at a morning working session to inform cultural space policy for the city of Seattle.
This event is free but registration will be required. Details TBA.
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Cultural Space Seattle is a free event open to the public and designed to engage artists, arts and cultural organizations, elected officials, government leaders, arts administrators, creative business owners, investors, real estate developers and brokers, nonprofit organizations and interested citizens.
Stay tuned for more details. For information, call the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs at 684-7171 or e-mail arts.culture@seattle.gov.
Presented in partnership with Town Hall Seattle, Seattle Art Museum and University of Washington College of Built Environments.
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