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Summit Summary
Priority
Vision Element Chart from February 10, 2007
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Thank
you to all who participated in the Charles
County Arts Survey. Over 350 people
responded and provided comments that will be
very useful to the Arts Vision 2020 Team!
Thank you for your input!
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Arts
Summit
Followup
Meeting
Held
on June 23, 2007
Action Teams met on Saturday, June
23, 2007 from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon in the conference
room of the United Way building (10250
La Plata Road, La Plata, MD) for their final
meeting. Each team worked on finalizing goals,
recommendations, and strategies to be incorporated
into the Arts Vision 2020 document that the writers
will work on over the summer and beginning of the
fall. The next gathering should be a perusal
of the Arts Vision 2020 document.
Thank you to all Action Team members who worked
for many months meeting, brainstorming, and
gathering data for the sake of the future of the
Charles County arts community!
Thank
you also to all who participated in the Charles
County Arts Survey.
We received over 350 responses, about 1/3 of
which included comments: suggestions for
improvements; recognition of improvements already
seen; and some heartfelt expressions of
discouragement and dissatisfaction. We sincerely
appreciate all
these comments, the positive, encouraging ones as
well as those that expressed frustration, for
together these comments will assist the Arts Vision
2020 Team in sensing the pulse of the Charles County
Arts Community.
Survey results will be posted to the CCAA
website in the near future.
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Arts
Summit
Followup
Meeting
Held
on MAY 12, 2007
On Saturday, May 12, 2007, members of the Arts Vision 2020 Team met for a
fourth time since the Arts Summit. ACTION TEAM
members reviewed all past and new data gathered to
date, continually referring to the original goals
established at the Arts Summit and in the earlier
meetings of the ACTION TEAMS. Two writers from
each team were "selected" and all members
left the meeting with new data gathering
assignments. Each team should return in June with a
rough draft of their team's goals, strategies, and
recommendations as we begin the writing stage of
this strategic planning exercise.
Public information survey coming soon!
Please participate when it is available
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Arts
Summit
Followup
Meeting
Held
on APRIL 14, 2007
On Saturday, April 14, 2007, members of the Arts Vision 2020 Team met for a
third time since the Arts Summit. The majority
of the three-hour meeting was spent in ACTION TEAMS
as members took a look at the current state of the
arts in Charles County, reviewed goals for their
particular action team, looked at data collected to
date, and made assignments and plans to collect data
that still needs to be gathered.
A survey to gather information from any/all
citizens will be published soon. It will be
available online and in print. Please check
back and participate in the survey when it is
available.
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Arts
Summit
Followup
Meeting
Held
on March 3, 2007
On Saturday, March 3, 2007, members of the Arts Vision 2020 Team met for a second time since the Arts Summit. This time the four Action Teams (I-Arts Development; II-Arts Education; III-Arts Programming; and IV-Arts Venues and Facilities) revisited the
priorities that were set last month, and made team member assignments for data collection that will establish and support any recommendations the Team makes in its strategic plan for the arts for Charles County.
All arts stakeholders are reminded that their participation is most welcome in this continuing effort to document our vision for the arts in Charles County! The next working meeting of the entire Arts Vision 2020 Team will be held on Saturday, April 14, 2007 in the meeting room of the United Way building on Route 488 in La Plata. For more information, please call the CCAA office at 301-392-5900.
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Arts
Summit
Followup
Meeting
Held
on February 10, 2007
On Saturday, February 10, 2007, about forty people came together
to participate in the first followup meeting to the
Arts Summit that was held on October 21, 2006.
I am confident that those in attendance would
agree that a genuine excitement filled the air: lots
of energy focused on developing a strategic plan for
the arts in
Charles
County; attitudes that emanated a "can do" spirit!
 After
an initial refresher of the summit and a review of
the data that came forth from it, all in attendance
broke out into 4 action teams, selecting that one
area about which an
individual was most passionate, or with which he/she
had the most experience:
I. Arts Development, II. Arts Education, III.
Arts Programming, and IV. Arts Venues and
Facilities. Each
team then prioritized the vision elements and
reported the top six or so when we all regrouped for
a closing plenary session.
The Action Teams
will continue to meet over the next six months,
sharing ideas and research, making plans and
developing strategies, all the while honing in on a
visionary document: Arts
Vision 2020, a Strategic Plan for the Arts in
Charles
County
,
Maryland
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It is not too late
to be a player in this visioning process.
The next meeting will be held on Saturday,
March 3, 2007 from
9:00 am
-
12:00
noon
in the Meeting Room of the
United
Way
Building
in
La Plata
,
MD.
Please
let us know if you will be in attendance.
Respond by
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
, either by email (info@charlescountyarts.org)
or telephone (301-392-5900).
If it appears that our numbers will preclude
us from using the assigned meeting room, we will
inform you of a change of venue to a larger
location, if available.
Please download a copy of the Summit Summary at http://charlescountyarts.org/Arts_Summit_Summary.pdf
if you would like more details.
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Delegate Peter Murphy joined the Summit
Followup Meeting, as did County
Commissioners Sam Graves and Gary Hodge.
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Charles County Arts Summit Followup Meeting:
Saturday,
February 10, 2007
Several
times over the past year, and most recently at the
first-ever Charles County Arts Summit in October
2006, Charles County residents and arts stakeholders
brainstormed and shared ideas about the future of
the arts in Charles County - a process entitled Arts
Vision 2020.
At the Arts Summit, these ideas were
discussed in more detail and categorized under
several general headings.
A summary document of the results of the
summit was then drawn up and, although not yet a
plan for the arts, it is available for public
viewing at the link above.
The Charles County Arts Alliance's Arts Vision 2020 Committee
now invites Charles County citizens who are
interested in proceeding with this visioning process
to attend the first Arts
Summit Followup Meeting on Saturday, February
10, 2007 from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon (snow date:
February 17) in the Meeting Room of the United Way
building, 10250 La Plata Road (Route 488 - beside
the Charles County Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center) in La Plata.
It is time to focus in on these categories
that summarize our goals, and to develop a strategic
plan to bring them to fruition.
To make the Arts Vision a reality, your time,
energy, and participation is needed!
Please let the Charles County Arts Alliance know if you will
be in attendance.
Respond either by email
or telephone (301-392-5900).
Thank you for your continued interest in Arts
Vision 2020.
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