Items with an asterisk (*) indicate advance registration and/or additional fee required.
Tuesday, June 109:00am-5:00pm
Location TBA
Cost: $225 per person
On Tuesday, June 10 programs organized by National Arts Strategies (NAS) will provide insight and tools for building partnerships, funding opportunities and negotiating skills. Registration for these seminars is open to all attendees on a first-come, first served basis. Click here for more detailed information about NAS, the programs, and the faculty. Open to all. Registration and additional fee required. The Art (and Science) of Negotiation is still open for registration.? The other two sessions have closed.
Professor Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
Professor Margaret Neale, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Negotiation is an art—and a science. Even the most experienced leaders get surprised by the complex psychology and group behaviors that drive negotiations. Enhance your ability to create negotiated solutions that support healthy long-term relationships; achieve your goals, negotiate successful coalitions, and learn to work together to "grow the pie." Professor Neale is a leading expert in negotiation. Click here for more information and faculty bio.
Professor Kash Rangan, Harvard Business School
5:00pm-Onward
Evening Activities TBA
Wednesday, June 11The Exhibits at ArtsTown in the Colorado Convention Center is open from 9:00am to 5:30pm.
8:00am-12:30pm
Hyatt Regency Convention Center Hotel
Cost: $165 per person through April 11; $190 thereafter
ORCHESTRA LEADERSHIP ACADEMY Seminars from the League of American Orchestras
Let us help you invest in the future! The League of American Orchestras is committed to recognizing and encouraging effective and visionary leadership in the orchestra profession and for the performing arts. A healthy and growing talent pool of well-trained, dedicated professionals is critical to maintaining institutional vitality and future growth. And, those who work for the arts in America need enhanced skill sets to undertake the complex tasks needed to ensure our collective success.
There are two half-day OLA seminars open to all delegates; one of them is likely to be just right for you. Click here for complete program information, including agendas and faculty bios.
Everyone thinks they have a brand, or need one—but most people aren't quite sure what a brand actually is. Discover how brand-building is wider and deeper than identity, and how every communication—print, digital, environmental, conversational—can work hard to build your brand.
Faculty: Roger Sametz, president, Sametz Blackstone Associates, Brandon Walsh, strategist, Sametz Blackstone Associates
A great opportunity for women conductors to share their experiences and establish a powerful professional leadership network.
Faculty: Rayona Sharpnack, founder, Institute for Women's Leadership and author of "Trade Up: 5 Skills for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out"
9:00am-Noon
The National Center for Voice and Speech,
1101 13th Street, Denver (within walking distance)
Cost: $95 per person
Pre-Convention Seminar presented by Chorus America and OPERA America
Ingo Titze, Ph.D., executive director, The National Center for Voice and Speech
We've arranged for a special session to discuss the science behind the voice and current trends, issues, and discoveries about vocal health for singers of all ages. The session will also feature a tour of this fantastic facility, to see vocal health strategies in action. Open to all. Additional fee required. Click here for more details. (Click here should link this session description on the Programming page)
NOTE: Additional seminars will be available on Wednesday, June 11 offered by our partner service organizations for their own membership. Please check your own organization's registration page or website for details.
Exhibitors Area is open from 9:00am to 5:30pm.
1:00pm-1:30pm
All attendees are strongly encouraged to come to this orientation, designed for veterans and first timers alike. This brief orientation will help you avoid being overwhelmed by the scale of NPAC and help you make the most of your participation. You will gain an understanding of special convention features, such as the AmericaSpeaks process for the caucuses and Town Hall meeting, and learn more about events planned by your National Service Organization (NSO). Please check with your NSO for the location of your orientation.
Chorus America
Composer Organizations
Dance/USA
League Of American Orchestras
OPERA America
Theatre Communications Group
General NPAC Orientation
2:00pm-3:30pm
Wells Fargo Theater, Colorado Convention Center
Join host Anna Deavere Smith to celebrate the performing community and share exciting visions of what the future of the performing arts could be.
Hear inspiring stories of successful community-building with the arts, from three distinct and compelling perspectives: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch talks about creating performance in partnership with community; and Denver's Mayor John Hickenlooper and Cultural Affairs Director Erin Trapp, present Denver's deeply researched and carefully crafted vision for a healthy performing arts future in 2028.
Don't miss this exciting session. It will lay the foundation for ideas that will be discussed and challenged throughout the Convention. These views and an action plan will be voted on and formalized at the final session led by AmericaSpeaks on Saturday—a plan that will send the performing arts community out ready to take action together.
Click here for more details.
4:00pm-5:30pm
Add your voice to facilitated cross-disciplinary conversations identifying goals and action steps designed to create a vital performing arts future. Today's conversation is the first of three discussions, one each day, concluding at Saturday's Town hall meeting. We urge you to participate in as many of these sessions as possible.
Convention participants will be organized into round tables of ten. Each table will engage in an interchange of ideas tied to a core question and a specific outcome. Responses from all of the tables will be compiled every day and shared with the full convention to form the basis of the following day's work. Sit down with strangers to forge a new arts community; you'll stand up with colleagues.
The National Performing Arts Convention has engaged AmericaSpeaks to lead this process of caucuses culminating in a Town Meeting, using methods and technologies that they have refined in over a decade of work nationwide helping citizens Be heard on important issues. You'll find a level playing field where every voice is equal, where all ideas are written down and considered.
Join the discussions—let your ideas, opinions and hopes help shape the ideas, opinions and hopes of others.
Your room assignment is provided to you on the back of your name badge. If you are unsure of where you should report, please proceed to the Korbel Ballroom foyer for assistance.
5:30pm-7:00pm
Sponsored by Target
The Galleria of the Denver Performing Arts Center
Expand your personal network as you mingle with many new faces from all over the performing arts universe, as well as orchestra colleagues, presenters, and business partners at the opening reception. Refreshments and cash bar available. Open to all.
With additional and deeply appreciated support from Center Plate
5:45pm-7:00pm
Seawell Ballroom
Trustees from diverse performing arts disciplines are invited to a reception featuring cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, offering the opportunity to meet and share common interests. The reception is hosted by trustees from Denver's premiere performing arts organizations.
Evening
Please check your national service organization (NSO) or click here for events in Denver.
9:00pm and beyond
Thursday, June 12The Exhibits at ArtsTown in the Colorado Convention Center is open from 9:00am to 6:45pm.
8:00am-9:15am
Please check with your own organization
10:15am-11:30am
Add your voice to facilitated cross-disciplinary conversations identifying a shared vision, common opportunities and challenges, and shared strategies designed to create toward a vital performing arts future. Today's discussion examines the most important opportunities and challenges facing the performing arts community. Missed yesterday's session? Join in today!
The National Performing Arts Convention has engaged AmericaSpeaks to lead this process of caucuses culminating in a Town Meeting, using methods and technologies that they have refined in over a decade of work nationwide helping citizens. Be heard on important issues. You'll find a level playing field where every voice is equal, where all ideas are written down and considered.
Join the discussions—let your ideas, opinions and hopes help shape the ideas, opinions and hopes of others.
Your room assignment is provided to you on the back of your name badge. If you are unsure of where you should report, please proceed to the Korbel Ballroom foyer for assistance.
Convention participants will be organized into round tables of ten. Each table will engage in an interchange of ideas tied to a core question and a specific outcome. Responses from all of the tables will be compiled every day and shared with the full convention to form the basis of the following day's work. Sit down with strangers to forge a new arts community; you'll stand up with colleagues.
Noon-1:00pm
Best-selling author Jim Collins discusses his groundbreaking theory on what makes the difference between a "good" organization and a "great" one, and how to achieve superior performance in the social sector. Click here to read selections from the monograph From Good to Great and the Social Sectors.
1:15pm-2:30pm
The Exhibits at ArtsTown and SmART Bar Consultations
Grab some lunch in the exhibit hall and explore all amenities within.
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Opera Colorado and Central City Studio artists will perform excerpts from recent premieres that have received funding through OPERA America's Opera Fund. This is your opportunity to hear some of the latest opera and music-theater works from North American composers and librettists! This exciting performance will include excerpts from Elmer Gantry by Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein, A Flowering Tree by John Adams and Peter Sellars, Frau Margot by Thomas Pasatieri and Frank Corsaro, Hannaraptor by Allan Gilliland and Val Brandt, and Kirke Mechem's John Brown.
New Works Sampler admission is FREE for all National Performing Arts Convention attendees. For your convenience, you can pre-order lunch for an additional cost when registering. If you have already registered but would like to add a lunch order, please contact Paul Gosselin at PGosselin@operaamerica.org
2:00pm-2:30pm
Convention Center
Chairman Dana Gioia Introduces the NEA Opera Honors
Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), will lead a conversation about the NEA Opera Honors—the agency's first new award in 25 years to honor lifetime achievement and individual excellence. Chairman Gioia will speak about the significance of creating the nation's highest award in opera, those who will be honored in this inaugural year of the awards and details associated with the fall 2008 awards celebration. Joining him will be representatives from the partner organizations for the 2008 NEA Opera Honors: Mark Weinstein, executive director of Washington National Opera and Marc A. Scorca, president and CEO of OPERA America.
2:45pm-5:45pm
Sponsored Sessions, Breakout Sessions, In-Depth Workshops, and Art-Making Workshops
For this three-hour period you will have your choice of three different kinds of session(s) to attend, running concurrently. A variety of In-Depth Workshops run for three hours and provide you with an opportunity to hear thoughtful presentations and engage in active problem-solving. Art-Making Workshops also last for 3 hours and allow you to select an extended master class with an artist from your own discipline or another. You can also fill your afternoon with two shorter Breakout sessions, starting at 2:45pm and 4:30pm, offering practical approaches to over 35 topics, presented in 75-minute sessions. (Please note that some breakouts will be held twice, some only once, so please schedule carefully.)
Some of our sponsors will be providing useful and informative sessions on a number of topics and that are open to all. Click here for a full description of these sessions.
Ten 3-hour comprehensive sessions on a range of topics are yours for the choosing. Hear thoughtful presentations from experts on big issues, engage in active problem solving and exploration in small groups, and, in many cases, create take-away plans and ideas to inform your work back home.
Locations TBA
Take a master class with an artist from your own discipline or another. Workshops are open to anyone at the Convention, whether novice or expert. Take home something you create yourself! Most of these sessions repeat Friday afternoon.
2:45pm-4:00pm and 4:30pm-5:45pm
Locations TBA
Looking for a practical approach to a specific problem? Then these rounds of shorter, topic-specific breakout sessions will appeal to you. Because these breakout sessions will be multi-disciplinary, participants will be able to learn from experts and from one another in ways that are not available at regular annual conferences. Choose two!
5:45pm-6:45pm
Mingle with colleagues, presenters, and business partners at the opening reception. Refreshments, hors d'oeuvres and cash bar available. Open to all.
Evening
Please check your national service organization (NSO) or click here for events in Denver.
6:45pm-??
Make new friends and enjoy Denver's fine restaurants at a Dine-Around this evening. Sign up for the restaurant or group that appeals to you, then meet in the hotel lobby at the time specified on the form. Dine-Arounds are pay-your-own-way.
7:30pm-10:00pm
9:00pm and beyond
Friday, June 138:00am-9:30am
Please check with your own organization
9:30am-4:00pm
The Exhibits at ArtsTown in the Colorado Convention Center will be open.
10:00am-11:30am
Add your voice to facilitated cross-disciplinary conversations identifying goals and action steps toward a vital performing arts future. Find out the results of yesterday's discussions and identify strategies for advancing the vision for the performing arts sector. All are welcome to participate in this final discussion that leads to tomorrow's town hall meeting.
The National Performing Arts Convention has engaged AmericaSpeaks to lead this process of caucuses culminating in a Town Meeting, using methods and technologies that they have refined in over a decade of work nationwide helping citizens Be heard on important issues. You'll find a level playing field where every voice is equal, where all ideas are written down and considered.
Join the discussions—let your ideas, opinions and hopes help shape the ideas, opinions and hopes of others.
Your room assignment is provided to you on the back of your name badge. If you are unsure of where you should report, please proceed to the Korbel Ballroom foyer for assistance.
Convention participants will be organized into round tables of ten. Each table will engage in an interchange of ideas tied to a core question and a specific outcome. Responses from all of the tables will be compiled every day and shared with the full convention to form the basis of the following day's work. Sit down with strangers to forge a new arts community; you'll stand up with colleagues.
11:45am-1:15pm
The Exhibits at ArtsTown
Grab some lunch in the exhibit hall and explore all amenities within.
1:30pm-3:00pm
Location TBA
Artists:
José Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema
Germaine Acogny, founder, Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dances
Performance by the Colorado Children's Chorale, Debbie DeSantis, music director
Moderated by Marin Alsop, music director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Meet two extraordinary leaders who have created innovative programs that are changing the way performing arts are perceived in their countries and building powerful relationships with their communities. These pioneers will inspire you as they offer dramatic models of what is possible.
Click here for more program information.
3:15pm-6:00pm
Please check with your own organization
Most of the art-making sessions repeat today. Please check your program book for details. Take a master class with an artist from your own discipline or another. Workshops are open to anyone at the Convention, whether novice or expert. Take home something you create yourself!
6:00pm-7:00pm
Make new friends and enjoy Denver's fine restaurants at a Dine-Around this evening. Sign up for the restaurant or group that appeals to you, then meet in the hotel lobby at the time specified on the form. Dine-Arounds are pay-your-own-way.
7:30pm
Please check your national service organization (NSO) or click here for events in Denver.
9:00pm and beyond
Saturday, June 148:00am-9:30am
Please check with your own organization
10:00am-12:30pm
Korbel Ballroom, Colorado Convention Center
Facilitator: Daniel Stone, senior associate, AmericaSpeaks, Washington, DC
Reflections: Eric Booth, consultant and teaching artist, New York, NY
The Town Meeting on the Performing Arts is the culmination of three intensive days of small-group caucus meetings held against the backdrop of an extraordinary array of performances, workshops, meetings and social time. Immersed in the richness of our entire sector we have explored common challenges, considered a vision for the arts in America and distilled our most pressing priorities. At today's town meeting, delegates representing all performing disciplines will set an agenda for the future of the performing arts in America.
Guided by AmericaSpeaks and aided by the latest technology, thousands of arts professionals will identify, consolidate, discuss and vote on strategic priorities for the arts. Each participant will participate in the discussion through an individual touch pad; responses will be projected on large video screens. The process will allow a newly unified performing arts community to articulate and ratify a shared agenda.
Let your voice be heard, and your vote count, so that we can speak with one voice and together ensure a vital future for the performing arts.Pre-eminent jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves is to perform at the close of NPAC.? Denver-born Reeves will make a special appearance to salute the delegates attending the Convention before they head home armed with a new vision and ideas for supporting the performing arts in their communities.?
12:30pm and beyond
Please check with your own organization
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Enjoy the rest of your stay in Denver!