• Overview Advocacy Updates

2010 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

• Sustain 2010-11 biennium budget recommendation for North Carolina Arts Council grants funding
   
• Secure House approval of Senate Bill 66, requiring one credit in dance, music, theatre, or visual arts for high school graduation

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Attend ARTS Day 2010 - Register Now
   
• Pass a resolution in support of a high school graduation requirement. Use the Arts Education Resolution Template and submit on organization letterhead. Include a listing of your Board of Directors following the resolution. All resolutions will be compiled and submitted to House Representatives.
   
• Join the ARTS North Carolina advocacy mailing list by sending an e-mail to info@artsnc.org

SUPPORTING MATERIALS

• ARTS Day 2010 Handout
• Creativity Means Business
   
• North Carolina Arts Council and ARTS North Carolina Arts Education White Paper
   
• Arts Education Requirement Q&A
   
• Full text of Senate Bill 66 (Arts Requirement)

ADVOCACY TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Call ARTS North Carolina for details: 919/834-1411

 

• Winston-Salem: November 10, 2009
   
• Asheville: December 3, 2009
   
• Fayetteville: March 2, 2010
   
• Charlotte: March 17-18, 2010
   
• Elizabeth City: March 22-23, 2010
   
• Cherokee: April 14, 2010
   
• Raleigh: April 16, 2010
   
• Fayetteville: April 22, 2010
   
• Greenville: April 26, 2010
   
• High Point: April 28, 2010
   
• Greensboro: April 28, 2010
   
• Durham: April 30, 2010

ADVOCACY MATERIALS

• North Carolina Arts Council Creative Economy
   http://www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=319
• Americans for the Arts
   http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/advocate.asp
• National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
   http://www.nasaa-arts.org/
• Kennedy Center Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit
   http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/kcaaen/resources/ArtsEducationAdvocacyToolkit.pdf
• Arts Education Partnership
   http://www.aep-arts.org/resources/advocacy.htm
• Keep Arts in Schools
   http://www.keepartsinschools.org/

ARTS EDUCATION ADVOCACY MATERIALS

ADVOCACY PRESENTATION:
SPEAK FOR THE ARTS

Click here to download this presentation
[PDF document].

A NEW FOCUS

An Advocacy Plan is the “new” Strategic Plan. It’s hard to do business without one. Consider this: without an organized process for advocacy, how can the arts possibly compete in an environment of authentic scarcity? If this is true on the state political scene, how is it any less true in your community? We need strong advocacy practices in good times, but an intentional and focused plan is an imperative in 2010.
 
This Spring:

• Form an Advocacy Task Force
• Get up to speed on elections – forums and debates, candidates and their positions
• Meet with City Council, County Commissioners, and School Board members and take someone who supported their campaigns – financial records are available from the Board of Elections
• Answer this question in your way – how are the arts part of the solution?
• Weave the arts into every community meeting – show up and speak for the arts
• Write your Legislator – www.ncleg.net

Secretary of Cultural Resources Linda Carlisle and Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco at ARTS Day 2009

Live Expectantly.
 
Be Prepared.
 
Take Action.