Reflections on Plan NH's 2019 Conference on Placemaking - Planning, Community, Arts

Reflections on Plan NH's 2019 Conference on Placemaking - Planning, Community, Arts

On October 17th and 18th I had the pleasure of attending Plan NH’s annual conference, which focused on Placemaking. I was invited to lead the closing session, which was a hands-on activity to explore personalities and processes of creative placemaking. Leading up to the closing I had an incredible learning experience with some high-powered movers & shakers in the creative placemaking world - Leo Vazquez, the Executive Director of the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking; Alexander Goloub, a dynamic artist who leads projects that transform communities and spaces; and Ben Stone, the Director of Arts and Culture at Smart Growth America.

Arts Spotlight: The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville

Arts Spotlight: The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville

Our spotlight is on The Loom! Rebecca Kaiser Gibson is founder of The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville, which is bringing contemporary poets, their poetry and the local audience into a vibrant relationship. The Loom presents accomplished, published poets to the community at special events throughout the year. They also sponsor a Favorite Poem Reading event by the community. Learn more about this great project from Rebecca.

Radically Rural: Reflections on the Mixers!

Arts Alive! coordinated the Arts Track of the Radically Rural Summit - beyond the learning sessions, there were opportunities to connect and meet and learn about other opportunities and resources for the creative economy and creative communities. There were mixers on the following topics: Makerspaces, Fine craft and climate change awareness, and resources from New England Foundation for the Arts.

Radically Rural is an annual two-day summit that brings together hundreds people who are passionate about creating vibrant, robust rural communities and eager to learn, connect and lead change. Broad shifts in demographics, communications, technology, economic development, and personal values are generating creative responses from innovative thinkers, change-makers, entrepreneurs, and community-builders who love their towns and know their advantages. Not only do we have inspirational learning sessions, but there are fun ways to mix up learning and networking throughout the Summit:

Radically Rural: Notes on Burning Man

Radically Rural: Notes on Burning Man

Arts Alive! coordinated the Arts Track of the Radically Rural Summit. Radically Rural is an annual two-day summit that brings together hundreds people who are passionate about creating vibrant, robust rural communities and eager to learn, connect and lead change. Broad shifts in demographics, communications, technology, economic development, and personal values are generating creative responses from innovative thinkers, change-makers, entrepreneurs, and community-builders who love their towns and know their advantages. Here is a rundown of our Crazy Good session about Burning Man, events on protected land, and the culture that makes land stewardship possible during large scale events.

Radically Rural: Notes on the Clemmons Family Farm

Radically Rural: Notes on the Clemmons Family Farm

Arts Alive! coordinated the Arts Track of the Radically Rural Summit. Radically Rural is an annual two-day summit that brings together hundreds people who are passionate about creating vibrant, robust rural communities and eager to learn, connect and lead change. Broad shifts in demographics, communications, technology, economic development, and personal values are generating creative responses from innovative thinkers, change-makers, entrepreneurs, and community-builders who love their towns and know their advantages. Here is a rundown of what we learned in our second session presented by sound healer and Clemmons Family Farm artist in residence, Amber Arnold.

Radically Rural: Notes on the Magical History Tour

Radically Rural: Notes on the Magical History Tour

Arts Alive! coordinated the Arts Track of the Radically Rural Summit. Radically Rural is an annual two-day summit that brings together hundreds people who are passionate about creating vibrant, robust rural communities and eager to learn, connect and lead change.

Broad shifts in demographics, communications, technology, economic development, and personal values are generating creative responses from innovative thinkers, change-makers, entrepreneurs, and community-builders who love their towns and know their advantages.

Here is a rundown of what we learned in our first session with Keene Walldogs project leader Peter Poanessa who co-founded the Magical History Tour project with Judy Rogers.

Arts Spotlight: Antioch's Dance Movement Therapy Program

Kimberley Burden & Tomoyo Kawano share the story of Antioch New England’s Dance Movement Therapy training program, and how it is building partnerships across the community.

“As dance/movement therapists, we believe that dance is life-affirming and that a person’s lived bodily experience and relational bodily action is the primary agent of change. The American Dance Therapy Association defines dance/movement therapy (DMT) as the psychotherapeutic use of dance and movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual, for the purpose of improving health and well-being. Dance and movement have been utilized throughout history for communication, rites of passage, ritual, entertainment, ways of knowing, learning, and so much more.”

Arts Spotlight: Electric Earth Concerts

Arts Spotlight: Electric Earth Concerts

This month we put a spotlight on Electric Earth Concerts! The Monadnock Region is a hotbed for chamber music and professional classical ensembles - from Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music to Ashuelot Concerts to Monadnock Music to all the incredible resources and ensembles at our local schools and colleges. On the eastern side of our region, Electric Earth Concerts gives affordable public concerts in the Monadnock Region that are meant to inspire, educate, and entertain, often looking beyond music to its connections to the other arts.

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