Subject: Director's Desk: E-Buzz/WAG Reminder + AEP6 + Opportunities

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AUGUST "SPOTLIGHT" NOW ON SOUNDCLOUD
THE LEVITT PAVILLION 
+ OTHER GREAT FREE MUSIC CONCERT SERIES
If you missed our August “Spotlight” interview show on WPKN, catch the podcast at https://bit.ly/SpotLevitt. This month, we spoke with Freda and Carleigh Welsh, who have been the driving forces behind The Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Westport for decades. We also heard from the promoters of other great free music concert series here in our region: Bennie Wallace with The Greenwich Jazz Festival, and Paul Frucht with The Charles Ives Music Festival in Ridgefield. 
REMINDER
eBUZZ DEADLINE:
Monday, August 15, 12PM
Post all your events for E-Buzz, WPKN broadcast, Hamlet Hub, and Social Media consideration for the week covering:

Wednesday, August 17 - Tuesday, August 23
WAG MAGAZINE DEADLINE:
Monday, August 15, 5PM 
Please post your September events to be considered for the next issue of WAG Magazine
FOR ALL POSTS:

PLEASE READ POSTING GUIDELINES & CHECK YOUR PROFILE

IMPORTANT:
We recommend that you read posting guidelines carefully and check your profile

DESCRIPTIONS:
Please be descriptive and enticing here. This is your "pitch" to get an audience excited about coming to your event.

IMAGES:
Enter into TWO IMAGE BOXES - Featured Image and Background Image. Size as indicated with little or no text overlay.

YOUR EVENTS
Post in the Events Section on your Dashboard

YOUR NEWS
Post in the Members News Section on your Dashboard

CALLS FOR ARTISTS, AUDITIONS, JOBS, & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Post in the Opportunities Section on your Dashboard

If you have questions or need guidance, feel free to contact Lorie atmarketing@culturalalliancefc.org


COMING VERY SOON
The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is pleased and honored to announce that we are partnering again with Americans for the Arts for Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6), the sixth national study of the economic impact of the nonprofit arts and culture industry. (See our webpage on the 2015 AEP5 study here). Our local nonprofit arts and culture organizations have been and will continue to be critical to our economic recovery. With your help, this new study will give us the data we need to prove the arts and culture continue to mean business in Fairfield County!
 
We will soon be inviting you to assist us by collecting audience-intercept surveys from your event attendees - our goal is a total of 800 surveys by April 2023. Stay tuned!
OPPORTUNITIES
AUGUST 31 DEADLINE FOR
LEADERS OF COLOR FELLOWSHIP

The Leaders of Color Fellowship is a leadership development program for Black, Indigenous and people of color leaders who are committed to the advancement of cultural equity in the arts.

Using a cohort structure, the program emphasizes experiential learning, community building, and service to the field. This is an eight-month fellowship to be held online from October 2022–May 2023. Applicants are strongly suggested to receive pay from their employers for hours spent engaging with this fellowship opportunity. 

This opportunity is open to those working in any type of arts organization. Candidates should meet the following criteria:
  • Self-identify as Black, Indigenous and/or a person of color; 
  • Self-identify as an early, emerging or mid-career leader in the field of arts and culture; 
  • Is an arts administrator or a significantly arts-interested member such as a volunteer or a public official; 
  • Current resident of the United States, including U.S. Jurisdictions (American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands); and
  • Have not participated in or have participated in limited amounts of high-quality professional leadership development opportunities.
  • LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, disabled people, low-income and individuals residing in rural, remote, or frontier areas are encouraged to apply.
Connecticut Humanities' Partnership Grants, of up to $100,000 per year, support Connecticut organizations and their projects in areas currently not served by CT Humanities and which have a strategic statewide, regional, or national impact in the humanities for the public.

Successful partnerships will address topics in areas including (but not limited to):  
  • Improving the capacity of Connecticut museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations to bring the humanities to the public and their communities; 
  • Supporting K-12 educators in teaching CT social studies and humanities topics in ways that connect to CT State Standards and CT museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations’ collections; 
  • Presenting a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable Connecticut story by connecting to local communities, organizations, and collections; 
  • Integrating and/or providing content across organizations, platforms, communities, etc. to improve/increase public access to the humanities;
Through Partnership funding, CTH seeks to create a collaborative relationship with grantees that will result in resource sharing, co-creation, or co-direction of content. Successful grantees will join CTH’s other Funded Partners in working to craft a coherent vision and compelling case for the humanities in Connecticut and will produce tangible, measurable goals and objectives aligned with the funding priorities, mission, and strategic plan of CT Humanities. Deadline: October 7.
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