9:00AM – 10:00AM

Ballroom Foyer, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

9:30AM – 5:00PM

Capitol Terrace South, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

10:00AM – 5:00PM

Capitol Terrace North, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

8:30AM – 9:00AM

Ballroom Foyer, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

8:30AM-4:30PM

Creekside, 2^nd Floor (below Lobby Level)

Breakfast and Lunch Provided

The Annual Meeting is the site of the second gathering of the LANE Partners.  During this meeting, the cohort members will deepen their story telling capacity strengthening the ability to advocate for themselves and others. Cohort members, consultants and initiative partners will discuss frameworks for accountability, evaluation, recovery and communication.

This is a closed session for LANE Cohort members only. Information may be shared with other Partners as requested.

10:00AM – 12:00PM

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Welcome NPN/VAN’s new Partner organizations! Stanlyn Breve, National Programs Director, will walk you through everything you ever wanted to know about NPN/VAN Partnership in 2 hours! You’ll have a chance to find out more about each other, and the great work that you are doing!

12:00PM – 6:30PM

Ballroom Foyer, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

1:00PM – 4:00PM

Capitol View Terrace, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

VAN Partners Only

Lunch Provided

This meeting is an opportunity for VAN Partners to catch up with their peers and colleagues, to learn the results of the 2016 VAN Assessment, and discuss the ongoing development of the program.

2:00PM-5:00PM

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor, Sid Richardson Hall (SRH) 1.208, 2300 Red River St, UT–Austin

Cultural workers from Austin, as well as from Latin America and the Caribbean, including members of La RED de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, will strategize on how to increase cultural exchange across the hemisphere.

5:30PM – 6:30PM

CB’s Lounge at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q

801 Red River St.

Exit the hotel and turn left onto 11^th Street; turn left onto Red River Street for 2 and a half blocks—Stubb’s is on your left. 

Welcome AM Newbie! We’re so glad you picked Austin to make your first Annual Meeting acquaintance. It’s a first AM for more than a third of attendees this year, so you’re in good company. NPN/VAN Staff, Board, Partners and Artists want to assist you in breaking the ice, making new connections, and generally get a better sense of what you’ve gotten yourselves into!

6:30PM – 8:30PM

CB’s Lounge at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q

801 Red River St.

Directions: Exit the hotel and turn left onto 11^th Street; turn left onto Red River Street for 2 and a half blocks—Stubb’s is on your left.

We all need something to celebrate together, so come and join in with the awesome NPN/VAN family of Austin, national and international Partners, Artists, Colleagues. If drinks, refreshments and friends are not enough, check out Austin’s Quick Draw Photo Booth for their “portraiture performance!” Be prepared for silly hats, karaoke, and souvenirs.  www.quickdrawphotobooth.com #quickdrawphotobooth

Austin has some of the most amazing restaurants! Check the Guidebook App for a list of suggestions.

8:00AM – 5:00PM

Ballroom foyer, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

8:00AM – 8:45AM

Bickler, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Bonnell, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Through the LANE program, Partners will have access to individual 45-minute sessions with the Nonprofit Finance Fund during the Annual Meeting. Partners can seek advice on organizational financial matters such as cash flow projections, mergers, expansions and communicating your financial story. Pre-registration is required.

9:00AM–12:00PM

Capitol Ballroom, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Continental breakfast available at 8:00am

9:15am: Welcome: President & CEO Caitlin Strokosch and the NPN/VAN Board Chair Abel

9:45am: Who We Are 

10am ArtBurst: Ebony Stewart, Austin – Hunger (excerpt)

10:30am: Onward! Disruption, Change, and New Measures

In this catalytic moment of social and political turmoil, we will investigate what’s at stake and identify individual, organizational, and collective action, both urgent and long-term, necessary for radical survival and change.
Organized by Lauren Ruffin, Vice President for External Relations, Fractured Atlas; with co-facilitators Madison Cario, Director, Georgia Institute of Technology Office of Arts and Sixto Wagan, Director, University of Houston Center for Art & Social Engagement.

11:50am ArtBurst: Chris Schlichting, Minneapolis – Inside Wrinkles Study B

12:00PM – 2:00PM

1710 Lavaca Street

This event is by invitation only

Meet in the Sheraton Lobby at noon sharp to take a shuttle to Women & Their Work.

Hosts: Louise Martorano, RedLine; Myrna Anderson-Fuller, Hammonds House Museum; Chris Cowden, Women & Their Work

VAN Partners and visual artists will visit Women & Their Work to have lunch and view Ana Esteve Llorens’ exhibition Studies for Future Objects. Warning: Lively discussion will occur!

Check the Guidebook App for a list of suggested restaurants within short walking distance.

12:15PM-1:00PM

Bickler, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Bonnell, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Through the LANE program, NPN/VAN Partners will have access to individual 45-minute sessions with the Nonprofit Finance Fund during the Annual Meeting. Partners can seek advice on organizational financial matters such as cash flow projections, mergers, expansions and communicating your financial story. Pre-registration is required. 

2:00PM – 3:30PM

Multiple Locations @ Sheraton Austin (Choose One)

Download Idea Forum descriptions (pdf)

Debt can be Your Friend

Capitol Ballroom B, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Participants: Claire Knowlton, Director, Nonprofit Finance Fund; Beth Doreian, Manager, Nonprofit Finance Fund

Many arts nonprofits have used debt to purchase or renovate a facility, upgrade equipment, or temporarily smooth cash flow to meet day-to-day operating needs. Join NFF as we explore the typical types of loans available to arts nonprofits, what lenders look for from potential borrowers, and when debt is the right tool for the job. Plus, learn more about the Mellon Loan Fund: a no fee, no interest bridge loan of up to $150,000 for which any NPN Partner may now apply (a network-wide benefit of the LANE Initiative).

HYBRIDs of Visual and Performing Arts

Capitol View Terrace North, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Moderator: Xandra Eden, Executive Director & Chief Curator, DiverseWorks

Participants: Neil Barclay, Director and CEO, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans; Philip Bither, McGuire Director and Senior Curator, Performing Arts, Walker Art Center; Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Artist; Ill Weaver/Invincible & Sage Crump, Artists, Complex Movements

This panel will examine the ways that performance and the visual arts overlap to create hybrid forms. These include live performances that take place in a museum or gallery context; performing artists who work from a visual arts perspective; visual artists who cross over into the performing arts and/or work with performing artists to create their work; and visual artworks that are created to serve as props or sets for performance or that come about as a result of a live performance.

We have all observed and benefitted from the many rich correspondences between the visual and performing arts, but recently, those overlaps have raised new issues connected to the longstanding definitions and histories of particular disciplines and differing understandings of the protocols and necessary context for each field of practice. This panel will push forward the dialogue surrounding current hybrid artistic practices and the new areas of creative exploration they offer for artists and audiences.

Joining Forces: An Exploratory Model for Artists, Nonprofits and Foundations

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Moderator: Louise Martorano, Executive Director, RedLine Contemporary Art Center

Participants: Gary Steuer, President/CEO, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation; Tatiana Hernandez, Arts Director, Hemera Foundation; Rontherin Ratliff, Artist; Ann Kaufman, Executive Director, Adeline Edwards Foundation

Joining Forces will explore different partnership models between artists, funders and NPN/VAN Partners to advance shared goals. This session will dive into opportunities and examples that exist for partnerships with communities to explore cross-sector and socially-engaged work.

Art Making In And With Community

Capitol Ballroom D, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Facilitators: Allison Orr, Artistic Director, Forklift Danceworks and Krissie Marty, Associate Chorographer, Forklift Danceworks
Participants: Don Anderson, Driver, Capital Metro (former employer Austin Sanitation Dept.); Robert Lorea, Forestry Technician, City of Austin Parks & Rec, Urban Forestry Program; Allen Small, Director of Distribution, Austin Energy

Join Austin’s Forklift Danceworks choreographers for a conversation on community-based social practice with a panel of city employees who have performed in the company’s large-scale civic spectacles. Topics will include collaboration, the creative process and impact these projects have had on them personally and on their work environments. Artists and city workers will offer insights and advice on about art making that addresses issues of race, class, culture and “artistic privilege” (who gets to make art and where). Panelists include a former sanitation worker, a City of Austin forestry tech and utility employee.

Trends and Opportunities in Asia – Who’s Doing What, How and Why?

Capitol View Terrace South, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Moderator: Michael Orlove, Director of Artist Communities, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Director, and International Activities Coordinator, National Endowment for the Arts
Participants: Yusuke Hashimoto, Program Director of Kyoto Experiment, Kyoto, Japan; Kaori Seki, choreographer/dance artist, based in Tokyo, Japan; Darrell Jones, choreographer/dance artist, based in Chicago, IL  (Live from his studio in Chicago.)

There’s a lot going on in Asia! Our curatorial The Asia Exchange Project partners based in Japan will share with us their expert knowledge on the latest trends, opportunities and contexts in different parts of Asia. We will also hear from the two artists who are participating in a unique residency program that implements a ‘process collaboration’ to create new works that will tour in both Japan and the U.S.

Pieces of the Pie: How Artists And Partners Leverage NPN/VAN Programs To Make It Work

Capitol Ballroom C, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Moderator: Michèle Steinwald, Community Engagement Consultant, The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts

Participants: Leticia Bajuyo, Visiting Asst Professor of Art, University of Notre Dame; Ananya Chatterjea, Artistic Director Ananya Dance Theatre; Rosy Simas, Choreographer; Jono Vaughan, Assistant Professor Tenure Track, Bellevue College; Ric Salinas, Culture Clash

We see how historically, NPN relationships can span an artist’s career. And yet we know that NPN, and now VAN, subsidies are only one piece of the pie to be able to support the touring and creation of new work. Panelists discuss what it takes to leverage NPN/VAN support at different stages in their careers while involving other funding structures in order to complete the pie.

Founders’ Forum

Bickler, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Come find out why NPN/VAN exists and how it has survived and adapted over time from two individuals whose catalytic leadership and engagement span the history of the organization.  For this session, former NPN/VAN leaders MK Wegmann and David White (founding director) will dialogue on the history, values, and intentions of the NPN/VAN and its significant contributions to the touring infrastructure for artists in the U.S. and worldwide. Their discussion will be facilitated by artist-activist-scholar Elliat Graney-Saucke and videotaped. This dialogue is part of a two-year research project led by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez to document and analyze NPN/VAN’s role in the field and plan its future. All interested observers are welcome!

Transitioning into New Leadership Models: Orgs & Field

Creekside 1, 2^nd Floor (below Lobby Level)

Participants: James Kass, Executive Director, Youth Speaks; Keryl McCord, Director Operations, Alternate ROOTS; Steffani Clemons, Local Program Specialist, NPN/VAN; Harold Steward, Manager, South Dallas Cultural Center

In order to meet a radically changing America, the performing arts field needs to radically change. The way for radical change is to have radically different leadership in place. This forum will look at transitioning leadership, on an organizational and field-wide level. Discussion points include generational leadership transition, as well as long-term strategies to make sure that future leadership of organizations and the field looks like and is the future we want in organizations and the field.

We’ve heard from younger, non-founding staff about their concerns around succession and their changing attitudes about work. And we’ve heard from founding leaders who are transitioning out of their organizations. This peer-to-peer session will look at different organizational leadership models that are gaining traction in our field, and how to make sure that equity, access, and opportunity are centered in this work.

3:45PM-4:30PM

Bickler, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Bonnell, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Through the LANE program, NPN/VAN Partners will have access to individual 45-minute sessions with the Nonprofit Finance Fund during the Annual Meeting. Partners can seek advice on organizational financial matters such as cash flow projections, mergers, expansions and communicating your financial story. Pre-registration is required. 

4:30PM – 6:30PM

First buses leaves from the Sheraton at 4:15pm

Take a tour through Central East Austin, a hotbed of Austin’s visual art scene. Central East Austin is an historic neighborhood that dates back to the mid-Nineteenth Century. Over the years, it’s seen the growth of artists’ spaces and galleries due to the availability of affordable spaces and a community of young creatives. The stops on this tour will provide you with a unique sampling of the Austin contemporary art scene that you won’t find on a tourist map.

SprATX
2400 East Cesar Chavez
spratx.com

Established in 2013, SprATX is a collective of more than 20 established Austin artists dedicated to increasing awareness of the positive power of street art, and generating economic opportunities for artists.

Artpost
4704 E Cesar Chavez St,
artpostaustin.com

With 20+ studio and exhibition spaces in 7 converted industrial buildings on a 3 acre campus, Artpost has been a creative hub in East Austin for 8 years. When ownership changed and resident artists were priced out of their studios, founding Artpost resident Court Lurie Fine Art began a dialogue with look.think.make, a public relations and branding agency that resulted in reimagining Artpost as an innovative creative destination.

Topology
1805 East 6th
http://t.opolo.gy

Housed in a 4,000 sq ft warehouse, Topology provides an artistic community co-working space and gallery where creatives can make connections and develop collaborations across artistic disciplines.

Austin has some of the most amazing restaurants! Check the Guidebook App for a list of suggestions.

8:30PM – 10:30PM

Stateside Theater at the Paramount

719 Congress Ave

Walking Directions: Exit the Sheraton and make a left onto 11^th Street; walk 4 blocks and make a left onto Congress; walk 3 blocks—the Stateside Theater is on your left (15 minutes).

#LiveAndOnStage

Livestreamed @ www.livestream.com/newplay

Featured Artists:

Soomi Kim: Chang(e), New York, NY

Charles O. Anderson/Dance Theatre X: (Re)current Unrest, Austin, TX

Proyecto Teatro: Por Los Mojados, Austin, TX

The Seldoms: Power Goes, Chicago, IL

Kindly arrive on time, and make sure you have your name badge for theater entry.

8:30AM-4:00PM

Ballroom Foyer, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

9:30AM – 11:00AM                                                        

Capitol Ballroom, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Continental breakfast available at 8:30am

Livestreamed @ www.livestream.com/newplay

Moderator: Carra Martinez, Director of Community Engagement, Guthrie Theater

Panelists: Ron Berry, Artistic Director, Fusebox; Celso Curi, President, La RED; Maria Luisa Flores, Chair, Austin Arts Commission; Gayle Isa, Executive Director, Asian Arts Initiative; Betelhem Makonnen, Artist

How do we grow our cities in a way that is forward-looking while also honoring the history and culture of a place? Austin has been one of the fastest growing cities in the country for years, leading to a variety of opportunities and challenges for the city. In particular, this tremendous growth has led to the displacement of many long-term residents, the working poor, and communities of color. Austin artists are also being impacted by issues pertaining to displacement, with artists of color disproportionately affected.

The challenges of displacement in Austin resemble those in many rapidly growing cities across the globe including deepening economic segregation and the eradication of culture. In this participatory session, we will investigate the issue of displacement, artists’ roles in it, and how we might shift our thinking to imagine bold responses and actions with a focus on how the issue is impacting communities locally, nationally, and globally.

10:50am ArtBurst: Rontherin Ratliff, New Orleans

11:30AM – 1:00PM

Multiple Locations @ Sheraton Austin (Choose One)

Download Idea Forum descriptions (pdf)

The Artist Citizen: Practicing Community (Conversations about Holding Together)

Capitol View Terrace South, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

In our country’s ongoing climate of divisiveness, reactivity and fear, we assert that art-making must be marked by its refusal to concede to the forces of hate at work in our world. This Idea Forum asks: How can our work as artists effectively (and aesthetically) bring people together? Can artists model a practice of coming together with our differences and listening to each other through our creative processes? Our 90 minutes will be spent creating a living compendium of strategies and experiences through discussion, sharing, and improvisational practice as an immediate means to both understand and solve questions we bring with us into the room.

Co-Moderators: Katie Pearl, co-Artistic Director, PearlDamour and Ananya Chatterjea, Artistic Director, Ananya Dance Theater

Reclamation

Creekside 1, 2^nd Floor (below Lobby Level)

In response to ongoing crises of displacement and disenfranchisement across the nation, Reclamation offers a counterpoint. Visual artists Yvonne Buchanan, NY and Steve PrInce, PA will lead a presentation and discussion about a new artist-led project that will encompass the work and perspectives of multiple artists. The final results of this project will be revealed at the NPN/VAN Annual Meeting in San Francisco, December 2017.

Borderlessness Now: 10 Righteous and Ready Projects from the South

Bonnell, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

What kinds of artists are making exciting tour-ready work in Latin America and the Caribbean that can be presented in the U.S.? Presenters and arts organizers from throughout Latin America present 10 performing arts projects in dynamic show-and-tell format that shares a wide range of inspired and culturally specific contemporary works by artists from Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, among other regions.

Moderated by: Elizabeth Doud, Coordinator, Performing Americas Program and La RED
Presenters: colleagues from Latin America and the U.S.; Hosted by NPN’s Performing Americas Program and La RED (Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean).

Culturally-Specific Artistic Practices and Arts Organizations – Roles, Challenges and Impact

Capitol Ballroom E, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Co-Moderators: Abel Lopez, Associate Producing Director, GALA Hispanic Theatre; Maria López De León, President & CEO, National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC)
Participants: Priscilla Hale, Executive Director, allgo; Samuel Valdez, Artistic Director, CARPA San Diego; Moses Goods, Artist; Jaamil Kosoko, Artist

As our field addresses issues of diversity, inclusion and equity, what has been and is the role of culturally-specific artistic practices and organizations in the nation’s arts ecology? How do we differ from our peers in the arts community? What are the challenges we face and how do we impact the evolving “American” culture at home and abroad? Taking a broad and intersectional view of equity and what it means to be culturally-specific, join in an exploration of this topic with artists, administrators, and leaders from across the country.

Organizational Mergers, Strategic Alliances, and Transformation

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Participants: Shay Wafer, Executive Director, 651 Arts; Alvan Colón-Lespier, Associate Artistic Director, Pregones Theater; Tom Guralnick, Founder & Executive Director , Outpost Productions; Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director, 516 Arts

What happens when two arts organizations attempt a merger? How do equity, power dynamics/differentials, and access to resources come into play? Each alliance brings a unique set of challenges. Get perspective from organizatons who have gone through mergers, and those who are in the midst. What did organizations learn and what do they wish they would have known before undergoing transition?

Next Gen: Researching Arts Leadership Pasts/Futures

Creekside 1, 2^nd Floor (below Lobby Level)

Moderator: Harold Steward, Manager, South Dallas Cultural Center
Participants: Ashley Walden Davis, Programs Director, Alternate ROOTS; Elliat Graney Saucke, Evaluation Research Consultant, NPN/VAN

Next Generation National Arts Network has been doing exciting movement and peer network building since 2013 around our shared realities of next generation arts leadership. This session will actively address the need, as well as desire, by next gen arts leaders to actively research and investigate/invest in intergenerational knowledge exchange, resulting in tangible action items / visions for the future of arts leadership!

Telling Our Stories: Documentation and Archiving

Bickler, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Moderator: Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Participants: Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theatre and Performing Arts, Harry Ransom Center, UT-Austin; Stephanie McKee, Artistic Director, Junebug Productions; Laurel Raczka, Executive Director, Painted Bride; Sixto Wagan, Director, Center for Arts and Social Engagement, University of Houston

At a time when the NPN/VAN is reflecting on, documenting, assessing and archiving its 31 years of work, this session asks how artists, Partners and colleagues can be a regular part of the archiving and documentation process to their own benefit, to the benefit of the NPN/VAN, and the greater fields of performance and visual arts. How do we tell our story? Who gets to tell the story? How do we develop a living practice of storytelling, archiving and documentation?

The Role of Artists in Equitable Creative Placemaking

Capitol Ballroom D, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Moderator: F. Javier Torres, Director of National Grantmaking, ArtPlace America
Participants: Taylor Payer, Assistant Curator, All My Relations / Native American Community Development Institute; Jess Solomon, Executive Director, Art in Praxis; Juna Rosales Muller, Experiential Educator & Social Practice Artist

Join us for a dynamic conversation with concrete examples for how artists are advancing equitable placemaking practices. We will dive deep into how artists are addressing the many forms of involuntary displacement often pervasive in community development work.

1:30pm-3:00pm

Capitol Ballroom, 3rd Floor (Lobby Level)

1:00pm: Box lunches available in Ballroom Foyer only to those who indicated in registration!

Slide Jam: Performing & Visual Artists 

2:15pm ArtBurst: Katie Pearl, Brooklyn OK OK OK (excerpt)

4:00PM – 6:00pm

#LiveAndOnStage

Livestreamed @ www.livestream.com/newplay

Stateside Theater at the Paramount

719 Congress Ave

Walking Directions: Exit the Sheraton and make a left onto 11^th Street; walk 4 blocks and make a left onto Congress; walk 3 blocks—the Stateside Theater is on your left (15 minutes).

Featured Artists:

Zell Miller: Oh snap my alien children are trying to kill me, Austin, TX

Meg Wolfe: New Faithful Disco, Los Angeles, CA

Dahlak Brathwaite: Spiritrials, Long Beach, CA

Graham Reynolds: Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, Austin, TX

Kindly arrive on time, and make sure you have your name badge for theater entry.

6:30 – 8:30pm

419 Congress Avenue

Refreshments

Directions: Mexic-Arte is 0.2 miles south of the Stateside Theatre on Congress Avenue.

Join us for a visit to Mexic-Arte Museum after Saturday’s Live & On Stage performance. Located just two blocks from the Stateside Theatre, Mexic-Arte Museum is dedicated to cultural enrichment and education through the collection, preservation and presentation of traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art.

On view in the main gallery is Icons & Symbols of the Borderland, a group exhibition guest curated by Diana Molina and organized by the Juntos Art Association. And you won’t want to miss Nacimientos: Traditional Nativity Scenes from Mexico in the back gallery. Have a glass of wine with us before you head off to dinner and the rest of your evening!

Meet your dining companions in the Main Lobby of the Sheraton

We made your dinner plans for you! If you are looking for dinner companions, sign up at Registration to share an intimate dining experience with other AM attendees. Each group will be escorted by one of our awesome AM Austin Host Committee Members, who will take you to their favorite local haunts. Interesting conversation will be required.

Austin has some of the most amazing restaurants! Check the Guidebook App for a list of suggestions.

9:00PM – 11:00PM

Museum of Human Achievement

916 Springdale, East Austin

Shuttles available for return to hotel

Join your Austin NPN/VAN Partners at the Museum of Human Achievement–one of our favorite artist spaces in the entire city–for an eclectic and electric night of performance. Free show + cash bar + shuttles back to the Sheraton = ideal Saturday night in Austin, TX.

Featuring Performances By:

• Dancer, singer, filmmaker, and very confused boy Little Ruckus (Dom Rabalais)
• Wicked-smart percussion trio Line Upon Line
• The 2016 Funniest Person in Austin, comedian, actress, producer Lashonda Lester
• New media & electronic music collaboration Limited Hangout
• The fabulous and provocative art, dance, and Vogue collective House of Kenzo

8:00AM-10:00AM

Capitol View Terrace, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Breakfast Provided

10:30am-1pm

Multiple Locations @ Sheraton Austin (Choose One)

This year, we have 4 amazing Peer-2-Peer sessions, developed by and for attending artists. Please note: start times may be different. Space for “Artists as Presenters” is limited—sign up at Registration.

10:30am-1pm

Soul-ution Session

Creekside 1, 2^nd Floor (below Lobby Level)

Facilitator: Dasha Kelly, Mpact Communications, is a writer, artist and creative consultant living in Milwaukee. Dashakelly.com

Artists often leverage our craft to prompt examinations of our culture and humanity or to expand conversations around social justice. The Soul-ution Session is a peer-to-peer discussion about approaching projects, adopting best practices, respecting the dialogues of communities we enter, preserving the integrity of our art and voice, and being diligent about our own self-care beneath the weight of hoping to make the world better. In addition to talking about the why and how of the work, we’ll generate a slate of new work ideas for all attendees to source and share.

11:00am-1:00pm

Peer-2-Peer Workshop For Artists

From Success to Satisfaction: Whose Vision Are You Fulfilling?

Tannehill, 4^th Floor (above Lobby Level)

Facilitator: Yuliya Lanina, multimedia artist living in Austin. yuliyalanina.com

This workshop is designed for artists of all disciplines and at any stage of their career. Discussions will focus on the meaning of success in art as well as various ways of achieving it, as well as identify opportunities for career development, visibility, and financial success. Each participant will have an opportunity for self-reflection and group work. We will discuss challenges and come up with solutions both personal and collective.

11am-1pm

Peer-2-Peer Workshop For Artists

Artists as Presenters

Capitol View Terrace South, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Space is limited—sign up at Registration

Facilitators: Daniel Singh, Artistic Director, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company, Washington, DC; Emanuelee “Outspoken” Bean, Performance Poet and Writer, Houston.

This session looks at how a network of artists can co-present each other nationally and develop a support system that is not dependent on traditional presenting relationships. Given the dearth of adequate creation, presenting, and critical press review opportunities for artists “Artists As Presenters” hopes to achieve three goals: 1) Establishment of an artist-driven network for co-presentation by artists across the US, 2) Broadening of the geographic reach of artists through this peer-to-peer network, and 3) Cultivation of online previews, reviews, interviews, and longer feature style press articles about projects created through this network.

11am-1pm

Peer-2-Peer Workshop For Artists

Open Discourse: National Check-in for Artist of Color and Marginalized Artists

Capitol View Terrace North, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Facilitators: Raquel Almazan (New York) and Octavio Campos (Miami), Artistic Directors, La Lucha Arts

Artists are invited into a conversation and report-back about the national landscape for artists of color. Is your region moving towards equitable representation of people of color and marginalized communities? What are the challenges artists face nationally and locally, and what is useful to recognize when we’re touring our work. In order to break into white institutions, is it always dependent on our race when we enter these spaces? Are we challenging the spaces as artists, activists and advocates in the arts and social movements? Let’s try to flip the script, and build a collective strategy on revealing the untapped resources and alternate spaces in our communities.

10:30PM-1:00PM

Capitol Ballroom, 3^rd Floor (Lobby Level)

Annual business meeting and regional breakouts for NPN and VAN Partners, NPN/VAN Board and Staff.

Check the Guidebook App for a list of suggested restaurants within short walking distance.

2:45PM – 5:30PM

There will be 4 docent-led groups: the first group leaves the hotel lobby at 2:45pm SHARP; last group leaves at 3:10pm

The tour will guide you through several key cultural venues, ending at the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center for the PANEL. Walking distance from beginning to end is under a mile, or about a 15-minute walk. A shuttle bus is available for those who prefer not to walk, and will be available for returning to the hotel after the PANEL.

Six Square, Austin’s Black Cultural District, is the nexus of thriving Black arts and culture in Central East Austin, celebrating its African American heritage and preserving cultural assets in the District. As an independent nonprofit organization, Six Square re-animates cultural spaces, connects community, and honors the past, present, and future of Austin’s Black Cultural District.

Stop #1:

Dedrick Hamilton House

912 East 11th Street

William T. Dedrick was the first to inhabit the House, and family member James Hamilton was the last to reside there. The little yellow house at 912 East 11th Street was built about 1880, and anchors the African American Cultural and Heritage Facility, a City of Austin-owned property.

Stop #2:

Six Square Office and The District Gallery

1152 San Bernard

Stop #3

George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center

1165 Angelina St

The Carver is dedicated to the collection, preservation, research and exhibition of African-American historical and cultural material. The museum offers gallery exhibits, programs, classes, spring break and summer camps, theatre productions and a genealogy center.

4:30PM-5:30PM

PLENARY

Livestreamed @ www.livestream.com/newplay

Moderator: Carra Martinez, Director of Community Engagement, Guthrie Theater

Panelists: TBD, soon

Continuing our conversations from the opening plenary and throughout the Annual Meeting, we will narrow our focus on issues around displacement to the experiences of artists working in Austin and the community hosting the next NPN/VAN Annual Meeting: the San Francisco Bay Area.

Austin has some of the most amazing restaurants! Check the Guidebook App for a list of suggestions.

8:00-11:00pm

Mexican American Cultural Center

600 River St.

Hosted Bar & Dessert

Shuttles available for return to hotel

We are thrilled to bring you to The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center for the closing dance party. The MACC is dedicated to the preservation, creation, presentation, and promotion of the cultural arts of Mexican Americans and other Latino cultures. And while you soak in the stunning architecture, you’ll be tearing it up to PELIGROSA, a collective of DJs, producers and visual artists reenergizing the sights and sounds of Latin Americas past, present and future.