Not enough money.
Making our creative community even better will take more than just finding more money for the effort. But, it is a lot about finding more money from the public and private sector.
Thank you to all who attended last night's Creative Capacity Townhall. Over 350 people attended the event, representing many of the established and emerging businesses and arts organizations in the region.
Our discussion was an important starting point for forging the creative community into an effective advocacy group.
Thank you for your collective enthusiastic response to this call to action. Keep your ideas coming below. If you're looking for the powerpoint presentation, you can download it here (as a PDF [0] or PPT [0]). In the coming days we'll get the whole townhall uploaded here for you to view.
We will invite you to the next Creative Capacity Townhall in the fall after we have completed public opinion research and a series of smaller group discussions about specific topics.
In the meantime, get your colleagues, friends and patrons to sign up at: CreativeCapacity.org [1].
A tremendous thanks to the Regional Arts and Culture Council [2], Northwest Business for Culture in the Arts [3], and the Portland Development Commission [4].
Click for responses from the Creative Capacity Town Hall Exit Survey [4]
Special thanks as well to our hosts last night: The Gerding Theatre at the Armor [5]y and Vibrant Table [6].
To action! To advocacy! To art!
Sam