CAAP Faculty Returns for One More Interactive Workshop, Engaging Community in Creative Ways, 8/10

Broward County Cultural Division invites artists and creatives, community and cultural workers to learn techniques for Engaging Community in Creative Wayson Saturday, August 10, 2013, 9 am - 4:30 pm, at the Historical Commission in the Historic West Side Grade School, 301 Harmon (S.W 13th) Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.

Presented by Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Animating Democracy Co-director, this experiential and interactive workshop is focused on techniques for cultivating good partners and partnerships, conducting focus groups and interviews, mapping exercises, leading meetings, story circles and facilitating dialogues. Discover the power of the arts that can be harnessed to help groups of residents and stakeholders imagine better, more meaningful projects.

Leading arts advocate Barbara Schaffer Bacon co-directs Animating Democracy, a program ofAmericans for the Arts that inspires, informs, promotes, and connects arts and culture as potent contributors to community, civic and social change. Schaffer Bacon has written, edited, and contributed to many publications including Trend or Tipping Point: Arts & Social Change Grantmaking; Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture: Findings from Animating Democracy; The Artistic Imagination as a Force for Civic Dialogue; and The Cultural Planning Work Kit. She has worked as a consultant in program design and evaluation for state and local arts agencies and private foundations nationally. In 2011 Barbara was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

There is no fee for the workshop; please RSVP online; and bring a bag lunch. For more information, contact Grace Kewl-Durfey at 954-357-7869; or visit the Broward Cultural Division website.

Directions:
FROM I-95:
East on Broward Boulevard to River Highlands (SW 14) Avenue. Turn right (south) on River Highlands (SW 14) Avenue to Middle River Street (SW Second Court).
Turn left (east) on Middle River Street (SW Second Court) to Harmon (SW 13) Avenue.
The two-story building will be on your right.

FROM US 1:
West on Broward Boulevard to SW 11 Avenue.
Turn left on SW 11 Avenue to West Las Olas Boulevard.
Turn right on West Las Olas Boulevard to Harmon (SW 13) Avenue.
The two-story building is at the very end of West Las Olas Boulevard.

Street parking in UNNUMBERED spaces is allowed.

This Project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment of the Arts

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