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All convention activities will take place at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, June 19
8:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.	Council and Partner Meetings
9:45 a.m.–10:45 a.m.	Preserving Diverse Cultures Advance Workshop Topic: Grantwriting 101
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.	Preserving Diverse Cultures Advance Workshop Topic: Grafting: Using Non-Arts Delivery Systems
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.	Preserving Diverse Cultures Advance Workshop Topic: Health Insurance
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Advance Workshops: Arts Education Workshop: Better Program Evaluation Arts & Business Partners Meeting The Benefits & Challenges of Shared Campaigns
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Preserving Diverse Cultures Advance Workshop Topic: How Racism Affects the Arts in Contemporary Society
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Networking Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Advance Workshops: United Arts Funds and Cultural Planning: Serving Traditional Arts Organizations and/or a Larger Cultural Vision? Arts & Business Council Chapters Meeting Business Committee for the Arts Affiliates Meeting Business Volunteers for the Arts Partners Meeting
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Preserving Diverse Cultures Advance Workshop Topic: Crossing the Line: Challenging Stereotypes and Making Connections through the Arts
5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.	Registration
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.	CenterStage Reception/Exhibits Open

Friday, June 20
8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.	Registration
8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.	CenterStage and Store Open
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	New Comer Orientation Sessions: No Child Left Behind & Arts Education Living News: Exploring Civic Issues with Youth through Theater Demystifying the Creative Economy Leadership and Connectivity Through the Lens of Culture Culturally Responsive Education: Implications for Education Reform Moving from Policy to Action: An Interactive Discussion on the National Arts Policy Roundtable on Arts and Workforce Development Engaging the Private Sector, Developing Local Volunteers Branching Out: Becoming A Grassroots Arts Advocate Public Art Innovator
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.	Americans for the Arts Annual Report and Federal Update Luncheon
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Sessions: Arts Education Evolution: Think Globally. Act Locally. How Coordinated Efforts Improve Access to Arts Education in Urban Centers & Qualities of Quality Managing a Faculty of Teaching Artists Authentic & Effective Group Facilitation It Works! Applying Creative Economy Principles The Evolution of Leadership and Learning Preserving Diverse Cultures Innovator MetLife Forum/PSA Innovator—New Frameworks for the Changing Face of America: RenGen - The Renaissance Generation and The Rise of the Cultural of Consumer Federal Treasure Hunt Public Art and Economic Development Burden of History: Interpreting and Preserving our Past
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Networking Break
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.	Sessions: Arts Education Evolution: Think Globally. Act Locally. How Coordinated Efforts Improve Access to Arts Education in Urban Centers & Qualities of Quality Models of Teaching Artist Training Innovator: Rob “Biko” Baker Creating a Shared Organizational Vision Using the Technology of Participation What's Working: New Models in the Arts Leadership Innovator Contemporary Native Art: Museums and the Public Realm New Frameworks for the Changing Face of America: RenGen - The Renaissance Generation and The Rise of the Cultural of Consumer Rules of the Road: Individual and Organizational Lobbying in an Election Year Philadelphia's Firsts
6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.	Opening Event–Taste of Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Saturday, June 21
8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.	Registration
8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.	CenterStage and Store Open
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.	Americans for the Arts Action Fund Members Breakfast and PAC Fundraiser
8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.	Morning Meetings: Teaching Artist Studio The Politics of Compromise: Public Art Controversy in San Francisco National Creative Economy Network State Community Development Directors Minding Middlescence Emerging Leader Network Morning Meeting Midcareer Professionals Propose a Session for the 2009 Convention in Seattle! MetLife Program Partners What Do Artists Want? Provoking the Ripple Effect: A Challenge to Public Art
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.	Keynote Address—Road Ahead: Forces Shaping the Coming Decades
12:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.	ARTventures and Walk & Talks
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Career 360 Sessions: Teaching Artists Careers: What’s the Balance between Artistic and Educational Excellence in Teaching Artistry? Multicultural Internship Programs Getting Unstuck Leadership Evolution: Planning for Succession
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.	Career 360 Sessions: Teaching Artist Careers: What’s the Balance between Artistic and Educational Excellence in Teaching Artistry? Building Your Career Brand: Taking the Right Steps Today Developing Multicultural Arts Leadership for the Civic Arena Working Title: Claiming Art as Your Career
6:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.	Evening on Your Own/Receptions
10:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m.	Afterwords Lounge

Sunday, June 22
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.	Registration
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.	CenterStage and Store Open
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.	Sessions: State Community Development Directors Student Advocates for the Arts Morning Meeting Arts in Higher Education Morning Meeting Culturally Specific Organizations National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) Partners Mirror, Mirror: The Power of 15 Seconds of Fame in 'FaceTime' The Evolution of T.I.M.E.—Temporary Installations Made for the Environment Public Art: The Next Generation
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	Sessions: Arts Education Innovator Where’s the Evidence? The Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative Financing the Creative Economy: Create Denver & the Creative Enterprises Revolving Loan Fund Creative Society and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Culturally-Driven Community Investment Framework Governance as Leadership Hip Hop in Your Drinking Water Creative Society and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Culturally-Driven Community Investment Framework So You Want to Start A United Arts Fund: Feasibility and Funding Issues Demystified Getting Money for the Arts: The Top Ten Bloopers Innovator: Pam Breaux Legally Bound: Opposing Perspectives on Public Art Contracts Public View of the Public Artist
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.	Public Art Year in Review Luncheon
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Sessions: The School Administrator's Perspective of Arts Education & The Job of a District Arts Coordinator and a Local Arts Agency Teaching Artist Studio Un/Settled/Pre/Occupied Economic Development Innovator A Foot in Both Worlds Un/Settled/Pre/Occupied Family, Small, and Community Foundation Support for Collaborative and Culturally Specific Programming Corporate Creativity: What It Means for the Arts Small, Community, and Family Foundation Support for Collaborative and Culturally Specific Programming Art. Ask For More. PSA Campaign Update Representational Sculpture in Public Art: The Role of Tradition in the Avant-Garde Manifest Destiny: A Meeting of the Minds on the State of Public Art
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Networking Break
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.	Sessions: Moving from Policy to Action: An Interactive Discussion on the National Arts Policy Roundtable on Arts and Workforce Development Arts, Culture, and Resettlement: Engaging New Immigrant Communities Real Estate Development—The Building and Beyond. Three Nonprofit Stories Leadership Gap: Fact or Fiction? Arts, Culture, and Resettlement: Engaging New Immigrant Communities Finding Your Girl Scout Cookie Get ’Em Young: Engaging Young and Emerging Philanthropists Tapping New State Funding Sources for Local Arts Impact Knowing Your Place: Public Art in Transit Stations
5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.	Closing Event at Philadelphia Museum of Art

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