Invitation to the Party, continued

Donna Walker-Kuhne

On Wednesday, March 8, The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Bank of America Celebrity Series, and Up You Mighty Race Performing Arts Company, co-hosted Invitation to the Party: Strengthening Multicultural Participation in our Arts and Cultural Organizations - A Community Dialogue Event with Donna Walker-Kuhne at the Calderwood Pavilion Rehearsal Hall at the Boston Center for the Arts. Ms. Walker-Kuhne is the author of Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community. Audience members were invited to participate in a dialogue following Ms. Walker-Kuhne’s remarks and to continue that dialogue here.

The following is a list of questions presented at the event, they are presented again here to jumpstart the conversation.

1. What are the concerns you have about building diverse audiences for arts and culture?

2. Why is there a focus on people of color attending different types of cultural experiences beyond their own - and does that make the effort successful?

3. Why is it necessary to craft specific strategies to engage multicultural and younger audiences?

4. How can educators help prepare students to become patrons of the arts?

5. How does a community build an audience development initiative?

6. What can I as an audience member do to influence my peers to patronize the arts?

7. Does an increase in multicultural audiences correlate with an increase in multicultural arts programming?

More information:
Press Release for Strengthening Multicultural Participation in our Arts and Cultural Organizations - A Community Dialogue Event with Donna Walker-Kuhne

Walker International Communications Group web site