2020 GIA Convening Schedule Available Online!
The full list of sessions for the first-ever GIA Virtual Convening, Power, Practice, Resilience | Remixd, this November is now available online. This year’s convening features 25 sessions ranging across a diverse array of topics within GIA’s focus areas and others including racial equity and racial justice, systems change, collaborative grantmaking, arts education, impact investing, and community building. Check out the full list of offerings over the five days of convening and register at conference.giarts.org.
“The Future We Want”: New in our President’s Blog series
In the last of a series of blogs titled “The Future We Want,” Eddie Torres, GIA president & CEO, reflects on the importance of racial and disability justice. Click here to read.
Next Week! “Arts and Health: Driving us towards stronger communities”
Join GIA’s upcoming webinar on October 27, 2pm EDT/11am PDT in which David Fakunle (DiscoverME/RecoverME), Tasha Golden artist (Johns Hopkins Medicine), and Jamie Hand (ArtPlace America), authors of the white paper on the Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America initiative, will share the findings of the field scan, the strength of their cross-sector collaboration, and suggestions for what arts and culture funders should consider when funding at the intersection of arts and health in 2020. Details and registration here.
From the GIA Reader
In “Supporting Southwest-Based Latinx Dancemakers: Reflections on Dance in the Desert 2019,” part of the Summer 2020 issue of the GIA Reader (Volume 31, No. 2), J. Soto reflects on the annual convening of Dance in the Desert, in which Arizona-based dancers and choreographers gathered to dive into Latinx choreographic practices and aesthetics, and examine what support would be needed to enrich dance in the American Southwest. Click to read.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced it will make a $1,000,000 investment in a National Folklife Network to develop new folklife infrastructure in spaces where it does not currently exist and will also expand its Folk Arts Partnerships to all 62 states, territories, and regions of the country for the first time in the program’s history, according to Mary Anne Carter, chair of the NEA…
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion recently to adopt the Arts for All Children, Youth, and Families: Los Angeles County’s New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, which aims to bring arts education to young people throughout LA County…
The Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched Disability Futures, the only financial award in the US for disabled creatives from all disciplines, according to the announcement…
