October 20, 2000

8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration (registration is open until 5 p.m. every day)

8:30-10:00 a.m. Breakfast Roundtables - Every table will be supplied with placemats depicting the counties of Kentucky. Attendees will discuss cultural tourism highlights in their communities as a means to introduce themselves over a light breakfast. Every discussion of a new community will handsomely reward the table with the most geographic diversity. 9:00-

9:45 a.m. Welcome - Bill Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (invited) Richard Taylor, Poet Laureate of Kentucky

9:45- 10:30 a.m. Partnerships and Collaborations - William Strickland, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

10:45 - 12:15 p.m. Break Outs and Best Practices - Partnerships and Collaborations

• Grassroots Collaborations in Urban and Rural Communities
• Business and Arts Allies: More than Money
• Partnerships Between Artists
• Unlikely Partners
• Beyond the School Wall: School-Community Partnerships

12:30- 2:15 p.m. Luncheon Change - Dudley Cocke, Roadside Theater

2:30- 4:00 p.m. Break Outs and Best Practices - Change

• Lay of the Land: Chasing Demographics
• Our Information Age: Keeping Pace with Technology
• Managing Personal Transitions
• Managing Organizational Change
• Public and Private Support for the Arts

5:30-6:00 p.m. Board Buses for Reception and Night on the Town

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 Midnight Kentucky Sampler
A special after dinner treat of arts entertainment from Northern Kentucky in the Hotel Ballroom. Cordials cash bar and Coffeehaus.

Saturday Agenda Continued...

11:45- 1:15 p.m. Advocacy Luncheon and an Introduction to Kentucky Stakeholder's Master Plan for Arts Advocacy- Tom Birch, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and Cecelia Wooden, Executive Director, Kentucky Citizens for the Arts

1:30- 2:30 p.m. Strategies of Support for the Plan and a Call to Action in Breakout Groups

• Educators
• Arts Leadership/Arts Supporters
• Community Arts/Arts Workers
• Individual Artists and
• Craftspeople Non-traditional Stakeholders

2:30- 3:00 p.m. General Assembly of Arts Stakeholders United in purpose and strategies, participants will bring the advocacy plan to life through their reported commitments and action steps to construct a strong advocacy network for Kentucky's arts infrastructure.

3:00- 3:30 p.m. "Make a Joyful Noise for the Arts" This artist led drum-in and be-in will unify our conviction and empower us to create better communities through the arts in the 21st Century. Throughout the conference, the instrument making room will be open for attendees to create their own percussion instrument, with the help of artists, to use in this closing session.

3:15 p.m. The Grand Door Prize

It's Saturday Night, Why Not Stay a Littler Longer?

8:00 p.m. Jazz in Northern Kentucky Stay a little longer for an unforgettable evening of Emmy Award-winning jazz vocalist Kathy Wade Live at the Carnegie.

October 21, 2000

8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Conference Registration (registration is open until 5 p.m. every day)

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Roundtables- an informal networking opportunity to link teachers with artists, arts organizations and other community members.

9:00 - 9:45 a.m. Arts Education - Mimi Flaherty, Wolftrap Foundation for the Performing Arts

10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Best Practices in Arts Education • Early Childhood Development and the Arts
• After School Arts Programs for At-Risk-Youth
• The Artist-Teacher Relationship
• Intergenerational Arts: Building Community Bonds