For Immediate Release:
June 30, 2010 Contact: Sean Anglum KENNEDY CENTER PRESIDENT MICHAEL KAISER -- Only Colorado Appearance Scheduled for Tuesday, July 13 -
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is taking part in a 50 state national tour for Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative. Presented jointly by Imagination Celebration, COPPeR (the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region) and Colorado Creative Industries (CCI, formerly Council on the Arts), Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser is scheduled to appear in the SaGaJi Theatre at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center on Tuesday, July 13 at 9:00 a.m. Kaiser will address the challenges facing non-profit performing arts organizations today through such areas as fundraising, building more effective Boards of Trustees, budgeting, and marketing.
Mr. Kaiser's presentation will be in an interview format, with a trio of Colorado arts leaders joining him on stage to ask questions. Together they will engage the audience in a dialogue concerning the common ground and challenges facing Colorado’s local and regional cultural communities, in addition to hearing Mr. Kaiser’s national perspective. The Colorado representatives will be Bettina Swigger, Executive Director of COPPeR; Elaine Mariner, Executive Director of CCI; and Maurice LaMee, Executive/Artistic Director of the Creede Repertory Theatre.
Since the initiative's launch in early 2009, the Kennedy Center has participated in symposia and arts community conversations in major cities across the country. The tour's final dates, which include the Colorado Springs stop, will continue to extend Kaiser's arts management expertise and personal support. "Each locality is dealing with its own unique and specific challenges, and there is no better way to understand each region than through in-person visits," says Kaiser. "Communicating in person allows us to be more effective in advising organizations in need."
Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is a response to the emergency facing arts organizations throughout the United States. The program, open to non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts organizations, provides free and confidential planning assistance in areas pertinent to maintaining a vital performing arts organization during a troubled economy.
Michael Kaiser has been dubbed “the Turnaround King” for his work at numerous institutions, including the Royal Opera House (London), American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the Kansas City Ballet. Kaiser, who has earned international renown for his expertise in arts management, also serves as a Cultural Ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. He advises performing arts organizations around the world, working with arts leaders in over 60 countries.
In 2001, Michael created the Kennedy Center Arts Management Institute to provide advanced training for young arts administrators and has developed a series of programs to help train others in the field. He created a Capacity Building Program for Culturally Specific Arts Organizations, which offers mentoring services to the leaders of African American, Latino, Asian American and Native American arts groups from across the United States. His fourth book, The Art of the Turnaround, was published in September 2008.
Imagination Celebration connects people to the brain-stimulating, community-building, life-enhancing power of creativity by inspiring artistic and intellectual curiosity; instigating community collaborations; and promoting life-long experiential learning that helps us thrive in a changing world. Since its inception in 1986, Imagination Celebration is a non-profit organization serving the Pikes Peak Region as a national partner with the Kennedy Center.
COPPeR, the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, serves as the lead organization for centralizing and coordinating information about cultural services in the community. COPPeR creates strategic partnerships to ensure that the arts - all of the arts - are rightly positioned as vital to economic development, education, civic life and a sustainable future.
Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the state Office of Economic Development, is a merger of the state Council on the Arts, Office of Film, Television and Media and Art in Public Places programs. The Creative Industries division promotes, supports and expands Colorado’s creative sector to drive economic growth, increase jobs, and improve our quality of life.
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