Broward Cultural Division Hosts 'Building Healthier Communities Workshop' Today

Broward Cultural Division, in partnership with Broward Municipal Services District and The Partnerships for Transforming Our Community's Health (TOUCH) Initiative, has invited an award-winning artist Marty Pottenger, to lead a workshop that will be offered on two occasions.

Building Healthier Communities: Improving Government, Human and Social Services Through the Arts will be available today, March 1st, 10AM - 2PM and Wednesday, March 2nd 10AM - 2PM at Reverend Samuel Delevoe Memorial Park, Multipurpose Room, 2520 Northwest 6th Street in Fort Lauderdale.

This is a must-attend event for representatives of health and human service agencies and organizations; juvenile justice and law enforcement; municipalities; non-profit organizations; transit; and urban planning.

Marty Pottenger will lead this workshop on how to strategically employ the arts to leverage workforce talents and foster a culture of collaboration that produces healthy, equitable and economically vibrant communities. "Creative engagement is a powerful resource to generate innovative solutions for complex challenges facing public sector agencies, organizations and the communities they serve," says Broward Cultural Division Arts Administrator Grace Kewl-Durfey.

Pottenger is award-winning artist who leads the arts non-profit Terra Moto, Inc.. Terra Moto, Inc. created Art At Work which has been nominated for a National League of Cities Best Practices award and has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts' national Our Town initiative. Pottenger will use the Art At Work premise to inform this effort to integrate the arts in Broward County Healthy Community Zones through this workshop. This national initiative has successfully demonstrated that artmaking is a valuable, cost effective, sustainable tool to both address intransigent municipal problems; deepen cross-cultural understanding among public service workers; improve police force morale and raise public awareness and appreciation for the role of government.

Broward Cultural Division is one of several Broward County departments and 25 community organizations and coalitions involved in The Partnerships for Transforming Our Community's Health (TOUCH) Initiative.

RSVP Online. For more information, contact Grace Kewl-Durfey at 954-357-8488; or Brittany Martin at 954-357-4795.

Broward Cultural Division is a local arts agency, one of thousands across the U.S. providing financial, technical and marketing assistance to artists and arts organizations. Broward County has more than 1.8 million residents, 13.4 million visitors, 10,000 artists, 6,291 arts-related businesses employing 23,498 people, 823 not-for-profit cultural organizations and 31 cities, some of which operate their own arts councils and public art programs. For more information about the Broward Cultural Division, call 954-357-7457. Visit the website and follow on Twitter @BrowardArts and Facebook.

A county-wide collaborative effort to reduce disparities and improve the well-being of residents, commuters and workers of Broward County. TOUCH is funded under the United States Department of Health and Human Services Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH) Grant.

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