2025 Conference

Creative Capacity: Cultivating Capability in Arts & Culture

 

Please note the following is a draft agenda and is subject to change. The final agenda will be sent to registered attendees in early September. Panelists and additional presenters will be announced in July/August

BAY COLLEGE, ESCANABA, MI

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

9:00am · Registration opens, coffee/refreshments, networking time

10:00am · Welcome and opening remarks

10:15am · Christine Delaney: Keynote Address

11:00am · Panel: (Historic Theaters, Sarah Rice moderating)

11:45am · Lunch with Table Topics

• History
• Tourism
• Fundraising

12:30pm · Breakout 1

1. Amy Quinn: Strategic Planning for People Who Hate Strategic Planning
2. Philip Rice: Marketing 101 for Arts and Culture
3. Amy Pobanz: MI Creative Potential: Equitable Access to Quality Arts Education

1:15pm · Breakout 2

1. Sarah Rice: Art Supplies in Rural Areas
2. Jane Lynch: Midday Music, Meaningful Collaboration: Lessons Learned from Live on the Lawn at Lunch (A Summer Music Series)
3. Panel: Community Theatre in Rural Communities (Philip Rice moderating)

2:00pm · Networking break

2:30pm · Breakout 3

1. Philip Rice: Starting a New Nonprofit
2. Growing Your Organization (Roundtable, Sue Roll moderating)
3. Amelia Pruiett: Building Trust: Strategies for Respectful Collaboration with Native American Tribes in Arts and Culture Development

3:15pm · Closing remarks