The Annual Meeting is a network-wide gathering infused with plenary sessions, workshops, video screenings, performance showcases, an exhibition and social events designed to provoke discussion and exchange. NPN Partners, VAN Partners, performing and visual artists, and colleagues come together to articulate issues, debate alternatives and develop policies that shape the local and national presenting context in the performing and the visual arts.
The Annual Meeting is a vital national forum for:
- Increasing awareness of the host city’s artist communities
- Providing peer dialogue and professional development opportunities
- Facilitating discussion about co-commissioning and touring opportunities for artists
- Generating challenging dialogue about cultural policy issues, particularly those important to artists
- Presenting new NPN program guidelines
- Conducting the annual NPN business meeting
- Opportunities to make NPN Partners aware of new artists ready to tour
The Annual Meeting is held in a different city each year, and is hosted by local partners in collaboration with the NPN National Office. This year’s meeting will be back in New Orleans from December 12-16, 2013. The Annual Meeting mini-site will go live in summer 2013.
Information from the following past meetings is still available on line:
- Annual Meeting 2012: Philadelphia, PA
- Annual Meeting 2011: Tampa, Florida
- Annual Meeting 2010: Dallas, Texas
- Annual Meeting 2009: Knoxville, Tennessee
- Annual Meeting 2008: Seattle, Washington
- Annual Meeting 2007: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Annual Meeting 2006: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Annual Meeting 2005: Miami, Florida
- Annual Meeting 2004: Los Angeles, California
