The Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs Sustainability Committee, with sponsorship by United Arts of Central Florida, is excited to invite you to our “Tuesday Arts Talks” where you will be given the opportunity to learn from national experts and discuss with local leaders.

Join us for an hour of Zoom, watching a session from the recent Americans for the Arts virtual convention (45 minutes) followed by 15 minutes of conversation about applications for Central Florida.

All sessions will begin at 7:00 p.m. More detailed information about each session below.

USING THE ARTS TO WEAVE COMMUNITIES BACK TOGETHER
Join New York Times columnist and author David Brooks in exploring what it means to connect in this moment, and how the arts can be part of weaving us all back together. He will do this through the lens of Weave, a “cultural movement renewing America’s social fabric” that he has launched with the Aspen Institute which sets out to repair a social fabric that is badly frayed by distrust, division, and exclusion—and using arts and culture as a central strategy to doing just that. Following his speech, he will be joined on stage by Jessica Solomon, Vice President of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, for a closing dialogue and Q&A.
SPEAKERS: David Brooks, New York Times and Jessica Solomon, Robert. W. Deutsch Foundation
 
DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WHILE SOCIAL DISTANCING
In this session, attendees will hear and discuss different ways to engage with community stakeholders, artists and others while practicing social distancing. Through this session attendees will work with an expert in community engagement to identify methods to engage the public in the development of public art projects and programming.
SPEAKERS: James Rojas, Place It!
 
RE-IMAGINING HOW WE SUPPORT GIG WORKERS
The majority of the workforce in the creative economy is made up of gig workers and independent contractors who are, in various ways, less advantaged and less protected by both governmental policy and, in many cases, the internal policies of the organizations and agencies with whom they work. In this facilitated dialogue, let’s talk about how we can do better for this backbone of the creative sector—some of the most impacted by the pandemic and likely to have one of the longest and most painful roads to recovery. Our sector can’t exist without them—so how can we ensure they thrive on the other side of this crisis?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
·         Talk about how to get creative workers working again.
·         Explore both creativity- and non-creativity-based opportunities for employment that are likely to come back first.
·         Discuss how we can ensure that creative workers will thrive on the other side of COVID-19.
SPEAKERS: Kristy Edmunds, Center for Art & Performance, UCLA