NPAC INFORMATION
To guarantee a discounted room for Conference you must register at the NPAC site and book accomodations by May 8th. Many area hotels are already full! Don't be left without an affordable place to stay in Denver! Act now!
Exhibitors please register here
Three new presentations been added that are open to all League members:
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This summer in Denver something extraordinary is happening….
The 63rd annual Conference of the League of American Orchestras takes place in Denver, Colorado, June 10 through June 14 this year. As always, the League’s annual Conference is a place to connect – to greet old colleagues and make new friends, to discover new and innovative ideas or to be reintroduced to tested and true techniques, and to relax, refresh and renew. Now, imagine this: you get all you expect from the Conference plus the chance to interact with a national community of artists, administrators, volunteers, boards and funders from music, dance, chorus, opera, theatre and more.
All this, and more, is planned for the League Conference 2008/National Performing Arts Convention – Taking Action Together, this June. All your League constituency meetings will take place as usual, but time is also set aside for all of us to get together at general sessions, in breakouts and workshops and, not least, in caucuses that build to a final 21st century Town Meeting on Saturday where we will vote on an agenda for the performing arts to take action together.
The League is one of the primary conveners of NPAC 2008, jointly with Chorus America, Dance/USA, Early Music America, OPERA America and Theatre Communications Group, Representatives from the American Composers Forum, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Chamber Music America, Meet The Composer. Over 20 other performing arts organizations will also be there.
The National Performing Arts Convention will be held at the beautiful Colorado Convention Center, which is located in downtown Denver at 700 14th Street.
Plan to come early to take in one of three outstanding programs put together by National Arts Strategies just for the Convention. And plan to stay through Saturday morning in order to make your voice heard at the innovative Town Hall meeting.
Here are some of the outstanding events you can expect this June:
On Tuesday, June 10, attend programs organized by National Arts Strategies that will provide insight and tools for building partnerships, funding opportunities and negotiating skills. Click here for detailed information.
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. 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 six half-day OLA seminars available; one of them is likely to be just right for you. Click here for more details.
As usual, meetings with your orchestra peers are planned throughout the week. Details will follow as each group sets its agenda.
For those in the know, the Luncheon is one of the “places you need to be” during Conference. Sit down with colleagues in a convivial atmosphere and find out what’s happening at the League and what the League is doing for the field.
The ever popular post concert League get together will take place after the concert by the Colorado Symphony. Click here for details.
There’s something going on in Denver’s arts community every night, some programs specially designed just for the Convention. Take advantage of performances, dine-arounds, late-night events, breakfasts, lunchtime meetings in the Exhibit Hall, and more to catch up with colleagues and expand your personal network.
Thursday, June 12
8:00-9:30 am OR
Friday, June 13 8:00-9:30 am
Nine senior orchestra marketing professionals and the firm Oliver Wyman joined forces to study churn—that revolving door of ticket buyers that has a significant impact on your bottom line each year. Learn how to better understand this phenomenon, minimize the impact of churn, and develop flexible strategies to retain more of your new customers.
Friday, June 13
3:15-4:30 pm
Michael Bronson and Joe Kluger report on electronic media activities in US orchestras, based on their recent survey of electronic media activity in Group 1-8 orchestras.
Friday, June 13
4:45-6:00 pm
You are invited to hear José Antonio Abreu in a special session just for the League. Señor Abreu will discuss his vision and his challenge to us: What can our country and our orchestras learn from the achievements of El Sistema? And what can we do, now and in the future, to bring this miracle to our communities?
You'll find inspiring and informative General Session each day. Open up your view of what is possible. Speakers from the performing arts community and from the world beyond will share experiences, insights, and ideas.
Topics will include a session on art and community building, hosted by the brilliant actress and social observer Anna Deavere Smith; best-selling author and business guru Jim Collins (Good to Great and Built to Last) talks about “Good to Great and the Social Sector,” and José Antonio Abreu, founder and head of “El Sistema,” the groundbreaking Venezuelan music education program and other arts visionaries talk about “Radical Ideas from Beyond the Border,” moderated by Marin Alsop. Click here for General Session information.
Wednesday through Friday three caucus sessions will be held, designed to cull ideas and create an action agenda for consideration at Saturday’s Town Meeting. Facilitators will work with tables of ten, to identify and discuss core questions that impact the future of the arts. Responses of 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.
On Saturday, June 14, plan to stay for the Town Meeting, which is not to be missed, where the ideas that surface at the caucuses the previous three days will be addressed at a 21st Century Town Meeting®. Using the latest technologies, topics will be consolidated, discussed and voted upon by thousands of your peers, each with an individual touch pad. Results will be projected on large video screens in order to identify and hone an agenda to be ratified by this newly unified performing arts community.
At this concluding session, you will help set the agenda for how the arts will be perceived now and in the coming years: by our communities; by national, state, and local governments; by our supporters; and by our audiences. Click here for more information.
On Thursday, you’ll have your choice of sessions to attend, either three hour workshops that tackle topics in-depth, art-making workshops or 75-minute breakout sessions on dozens of topics. These sessions are an expanded variation on Toolboxes and Perspectives. (Click here for a breakdown of sessions available by constituent group.)
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. Click here to learn about In-Depth Sessions.
Looking for a practical approach to a specific problem? Then these rounds of shorter, topic-specific breakout sessions will appeal to you. Click here to learn about Breakout Sessions.
Regardless of the kind of role you play on a daily basis, you're in the arts and attending this Convention because of your devotion to the art itself. Stretch your creative wings and take a master class with an artist from your own discipline or another—and take home something you create yourself! Workshops are open to anyone at the Convention, whether novice or expert. Click here to learn about Art-Making Sessions.
League Early Registration deadline: April 21, 2008. This year because of the participation of our fellow national service organizations, registration deadlines will be strictly followed, prices WILL increase Tuesday April 22.
Don’t delay!
Exhibitors please register here
All programs subject to change.