Throughout the summit, sessions will run in three formats – plenaries, workshops, and seminars – each providing a different learning opportunity.
PLENARIES
Ideas and Inspiration
Organized around pressing topics and leading voices, you’ll hear from leaders across the country who are addressing key community issues and moving the field of creative placemaking forward.
WORKSHOPS
Tools and Techniques
Designed to supply practical tools on specific issues, choose your own adventure based on the skills
you want to develop. Workshops will include practical information on diverse ways to fund your work, as well as tips on understanding and measuring your impact. You’ll find workshops to help you tell compelling narratives about your work and capture them on video for broader audiences. Facilitated peer-to-peer discussions will help you address common challenges in creative placemaking that no toolkits have tackled. We also invite you to dig in with us on field-wide discussions about knowledge and resources.
SEMINARS
Connect and Reflect
The Aspen Institute Executive Leadership Seminars use moderated, text-based dialogue to allow leaders from all sectors to step back from day-to-day concerns and reflect more generally on the core values by which they lead. What do we believe, and why do we believe it? Why do we do what we do? What does a good society look like, and what is our role in helping create it? Aspen Institute Executive Leadership has crafted a special program for the ArtPlace Summit with the aim of deepening our reflection, synthesizing what we learn in other sessions, and strengthening the connections among us.
OVERVIEW
Monday, May 21
| 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Registration |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Pre-Summit Sessions |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Welcome Plenary: What's Next for ArtPlace? |
| 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Dinner & Seminar: Session I: Home? |
| 6:15 PM | Depart for The Kentucky Center for the Arts |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | ArtPlace & Theater of War Present: Addiction Performance Project |
| 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Post-show Cocktail Reception |
Tuesday, May 22
| 7:00 AM - 7:30 AM |
Power Walk led by Sarah Calderon (optional – meet in lobby) |
| 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
Breakfast Plenary: Making & Keeping Place in Kentucky |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Break |
| 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
Seminar: Session II: Belonging? Groups 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM |
Break |
| 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM |
Plenary: You're not the Boss of Me: What Happened to the Public in Public-Private Partnerships? |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Lunch / Break |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
Workshops: Please select your session onsite, Groups 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM |
Break |
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM |
Plenary: Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey into the Heart of America |
| 4:45 PM - 6:30 PM |
Break |
| 6:30 PM |
Depart for ArtPlace Party (shuttles provided – depart from lobby) |
| 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
ArtPlace Party, Kentucky Center for African American Heritage |
| 10:00 PM | Final Shuttle Departs KCAAH |
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
| 7:00 AM - 7:30 AM |
Power Walk led by Sarah Calderon (optional – meet in lobby) |
| 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
Plenary Breakfast: Creating Safe and Beloved Communities |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM |
Break |
| 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Seminar: Session III: Healing? Groups 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Workshops: Please select your session onsite, Groups 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | |
| 1:00 PM | Summit Concludes |
Our hashtag throughout the summit is #ArtPlaceSummit. For more details and live updates go to the ArtPlace Summit Guidebook App.