Update on All-Member Meeting

As previously announced, we will not be going forward with the meeting at BRIC on Monday and are exploring other options. Those options have narrowed to focus on scheduling a time when we can have a representative from Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council participate in a virtual meeting or conference call with the focus on COVID-19. I will be in touch with DCLA about scheduling as soon as a meeting is confirmed.

Please join us for DBAA’s Early-Spring All-Member Meeting:

Agenda

• Vote to Approve New DBAA Members

• Welcome by BRIC

• Presentation & Q+A with Bahia Ramos, Director of Arts at the Wallace Foundation on their “Building Audiences for Sustainability” Initiative

• Member Feature: Marcia Ely, Executive Vice President at Brooklyn Historical Society on their “Unpacking the Census” Series

• COVID-19 + Cultural Organizations - Speakers TBC

• DBAA Updates

As always, we’ll also have lunch, surveys, and time to socialize and network with colleagues.

Post-Meeting: Join us for a tour of the UrbanGlass Studios (upstairs) with DBAA Board Member and UrbanGlass Executive Director, Devin Mathis.

About the presentation
Audience development is an important topic for arts and cultural organizations in Downtown Brooklyn, from navigating the challenges of attracting audiences in Brooklyn, on tour, and online, to developing strategies for engaging new Downtown Brooklyn residents as audiences and supporters, to grappling with issues of racial and economic equity amid changing neighborhood demographics.
 
Since 2015, the Wallace Foundation’s groundbreaking “Building Audiences for Sustainability” initiative has focused on developing practical insights into how arts organizations can successfully expand their audiences. Bahia Ramos, Director of Arts will speak about the Foundation’s work in this area, including how they are approaching questions around building, diversifying, and sustaining art audiences and their findings on what works, what does not, and where there are still questions.

Quorum at All-Member Meetings is required to vote in new members and approve corporate business items. All members are urged to send a representative. All staff of DBAA member organizations are invited to attend.

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