Emerging Leaders of New York Arts and World Policy Institute present…

STATE OF THE ARTS ECOSYSTEM

A Panel Discussion with
-Caron Atlas, Director, Arts & Democracy Project & Co-Director, NOCD-NY
-Jamie Bennett, Chief of Staff & Director of Public Affairs, NEA
-Paul Nagle, Executive Director, Cultural Strategies Initiative
-Edwin Torres, Associate Director of New York City Opportunities Fund & Innovation, Rockefeller Foundation
-Moderated by: Jacqueline Davis, Executive Director, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Join us for conversation and libations with thought leaders from across the cultural spectrum. This panel discussion will explore recent and emerging trends in arts philanthropy and cultural policy in NYC and across the country. We’ll unpack the complex questions surrounding these important issues, learn about the approaches of various institutions, and examine the roles they play, individually and collectively, in shaping our cultural landscape.

No matter what area of the arts you work in – this conversation affects you! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to engage in a spirited discussion with our panel of experts and your peers.

Thursday, May 16 @ 7pm
Issue Project Room (22 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn)

RSVP at this link:

Free and open to the public.
Suggested Donation $10: SUPPORT ELNYA !

About the Sponsors
ELNYA is Emerging Leaders of New York Arts. We are a New York City-based networking and professional development group that explores new ideas, best practices and challenges in the field of arts management. Our membership includes an evolving group of arts administrators in our 20s and 30s who empower ourselves with hands-on leadership opportunities and programming that elevates our field. http://www.elnya.org

The World Policy Institute is an ideas incubator focused on emerging global challenges, thinkers, and solutions. The World Policy Institute understands that policymakers and opinion leaders need creative ways to catalyze innovation and engage wider coalitions in solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.  By working with artists focused on the same issues, the Arts-Policy Nexus seeks to build a new, collaborative model for social change.

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arts-policy

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Come celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with ELNYA for a special May edition of Creative Conversations!

ELNYA and the Asian American Arts Alliance have joined forces for an action-packed discussion event, bridging ELNYA’s Creative Conversations and the Alliance’s Brainstorm! event to examine best practices, challenges, and needs when it comes to producing in the big bad city.

Discover how the THAI ARTISTS ALLIANCE developed and produced Mindfulness, an experimental dance piece inspired by the Buddhist term Sa-Ti. Dancers from the THAI ARTISTS ALLIANCE reflected an individual’s inner struggle towards clarity of mind in NYC through their performance Mindfulness. This project was featured in the Asian American Arts Alliance’s 2012 Locating the Sacred Festival.

Join us as the THAI ARTISTS ALLIANCE presents their pieces from the festival and takes us behind the scenes with thoughts on what inspired them to create this work, the process of developing it, and where it’s going next.

Afterwards, come mix and mingle with ELNYA/Alliance artists and arts administrators just down the street at 169 Bar!!!
Program:
6:30-8 pm at Chen Dance Center
Chen Dance Center – 70 Mulberry Street – New York, NY 10013

Moderated by William Penrose, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Post-Event Reception:
8:30-10 pm at 169 Bar
(5 dollar Beer + Shot Special!!!)
169 Bar – 169 East Broadway  – New York, NY 10002

Tickets:
5 dollars for ELNYA Members [DISCOUNT CODE: ELNYA 2013]
www.brainstormwiththaiartistsalliance.eventbrite.com

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Join us at our next Culture Club!
Symphony Space Presents:
Selected Shorts: Etgar Keret & Gary Shteyngart

2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC
Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30pm

 Strange situations, kooky misunderstandings, the world turned around and upside down and just the way it is. Stay tuned for some hilarity when these friends and fellow comic writers team up. Readers include Willem Dafoe (The English Patient, Spider-Man 3), Parker Posey(Price Check, Louie) and Alex Karpovsky (HBO’s Girls, Rubberneck). Hosted by BD Wong. Read more and buy tickets!

 Tickets: $15 with code ELNYA (special discount off full price tickets) 

Come early or stay late to enjoy cocktails, snacks, and small plates at Bar Thalia.

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Join ELNYA for our spring happy hour where we’ll be raising a glass to warmer weather or drowning our sorrows because it’s still freezing–either way we’ll be having a blast because we’ll be in the fantastic borough of Brooklyn!

Here are the details:

What: ELNYA Brooklyn Happy Hour
When: Tuesday, April 23
Time: 6:30-8pm
Where: 61 Local–61 Bergen St. (between Smith St. and Boerum Place). F or G to Bergen.
RSVP HERE so we can give the bar a head count.
*** CASH ONLY ***

61 Local was recently dubbed one of NYC’s best new beer bars by TimeOut New York!

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Join The Municipal Art Society of New York on Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 PM, for “Building Resilience through the Arts,” an Arts Forum discussion hosted in collaboration with the World Policy Institute. The panel will consider the roles artists and the arts play in creating and defining resilient, livable and vibrant communities.

Richard Flood, New Museum director of special projects and curator at large, will moderate a conversation with Kemi Ilesanmi of The Laundromat Project; Artist Dustin Yellin; Martin Rosengaard, artist and Wooloo.org co-founder; and Lisa Kim, cultural affairs director for Two Trees Management.

Registration is required for this free event to be held at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

About the Arts Forum
Produced since 1990, the Arts Forum series has brought the best and brightest in arts innovators in all disciplines to an audience that is dedicated to the cultural field, advocacy, policymaking and groundbreaking arts leadership. These convenings provide an opportunity to hear from cultural leaders and innovators from around the world. MAS is pleased to continue the long tradition of the Arts Forum, which is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

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Get tickets to see Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra this spring!

Click here for full details and tickets.

• Do you love jazz performance?
• Are you eager to connect with other arts professionals in NYC?
• Would you like to participate in an exclusive evening at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?

Join the Emerging Leaders of New York Arts (ELNYA) this spring for an evening with Wynton Marsalis and conductor Alan Gilbert.  We are offering discounted tickets to this highly sought after event.  Buy tickets to meet new people, enjoy music, or as a gift for the special person in your life!

May 30, 2013 at 6:45pm
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Avery Fisher Hall

Click here for full details and tickets.

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Save the date! The next ELNYA Winter Happy Hour will take place on Tuesday, February 26th.

When: February 26^th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST

Where: Pazza Notte (http://www.pazzanotte.com/)
1375 6th Ave,  btwn 55 and 56 (F and NQR trains nearby)

Happy Hour Special: 2-for -1 wine and martinis & full dinner/appetizer menu

Join us for some mid-winter cheer and informal networking with your ELNYA peers. See you there – we’ll have booths at the front of the lounge!

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2012-13 ELNYA Fellow Todd Lester is convening a two-part Culture Club event on January 9 and 10, in Manhattan (287 Spring) and Brooklyn (Brooklyn Museum) respectively. This set of events is a part of a five-year project focused on the city of Sao Paulo and the role of artists as agents of change in complex urban environments. The project is called Lanchonete.

1. Meet the author of The Gentrification of The Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Sarah Schulman, and talk to her about the book while visual artists Brian Halloran and Niki Singleton respond through performance and installation to an issue that all New Yorkers contend with … gentrification.

Wednesday, January 9th 7pm at 287 Spring.
RSVP for event and sign-up for book club at saopaulolanchonete@gmail.com.

In her memoir, Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight – replaced by mainstream consumerism – as a consequence of the AIDS crisis.

2. Gentrification and Globalization, a panel at the Brooklyn Museum at which representatives of FUREE, 596 Acres, and the Laundromat Project will join Sarah Schulman in conversation; Moderated by Todd Lester

Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
Click here for more details and RSVP

See an interview with Todd Lester on the making of Lanchonete.

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Don’t forget to kick off your holiday season with your ELNYA peers tomorrow night at the ELNYA Holiday Happy Hour at Tromba!

Join us from 7 pm to 9 pm for $5 drink specials and complimentary Italian aperitivo at Tromba Ristorante and Bar (121 Ludlow St., between Delancy and Rivington).

Feel free to bring your industry friends or colleagues.

See you tomorrow!

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