Activate Rural Virtual Workshop: Courageous and Compassionate Creative Places
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Date + Time: Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 12PM - 1:30PM CDT
Join Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) for our 2nd Activate Rural Virtual Workshop, Courageous and Compassionate Creative Places, to hear from two rural artists and activators transforming established creative places, a theater and art gallery, into courageous and compassionate spaces for their communities. Participants will learn how each project is navigating community engagement, funding resources, and structures for stewardship and operations. Be inspired by the activation of the two building spaces during a panel discussion moderated by Sarina Otaibi, Activate Rural Program Director, DoPT, with the following panelist speakers:
Bethany Lacktorin is the Board Chair and Director of the Little Theatre Auditorium in New London, MN (pop. 1,282). The Little Theatre is an arts based, artist-led nonprofit organization working to amplify the storytelling of artists and culture-bearers, those from our immigrant communities and those identifying as BIPOC and LGBTQ2IA+.
Nancy Stewart is the Executive Director of the Kaddatz Galleries in Fergus Falls, MN (pop. 14,187). The Kaddatz Galleries aims to maintain and grow their high-impact programming for kids and adults, pursue broader artistic representation for area artists and introduce more challenging and culturally responsive work to their audience.
This virtual workshop is free, but registration is required. For workshop and registration questions, please contact Benjamin Domask-Ruh, Activate Rural Program Coordinator, at benjamin@publictransformation.org.
This workshop is a part of the Activate Rural Public Workshop Series, workshops and sessions designed to offer support, peer learning, and resources to creative entrepreneurs, artists, organizations and small business owners with creative physical places of connection based in rural Minnesota communities and the Native nations that share this geography, with a population of 20,000 or less. This program is supported, in part, by the State of Minnesota through a grant from The Office of Small Business Development, Department of Employment and Economic Development.