California Presenters

Artist Information Exchange Conference

Registration is now open! Take advantage of the early bird rate
and register by March 31.

This year's AIE is taking place at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles, May 30-June 1, 2012. Registration, hotel information and the schedule are now available!

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Professional Development Phone Seminar now posted

The recording of our recent phone seminar with Craig Cheslog, Principal Advisor to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction is now posted.

Following the call, CP was invited by California Arts Council Executive Director Craig Watson to participate in the March convening of Create the State, the coalition of arts and education reformers discussed in the call. The CAC is working closely with Department of Education to keep arts education a part of the school reform movement. We'll keep our members updated on this opportunity.

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Artist Spotlight Applications deadline extended to February 10, 2012

California Presenters seeks proposals for exceptional new performing arts projects for touring in the 2013-2014 season. California Presenters’ Artist Spotlight was launched in 2006 as the New Works Tour Support Program. The Artist Spotlight has evolved as a unique opportunity for artists to engage directly with California Presenter members in a focused, intimate environment that allows for robust conversation and exchange. The Artis Spotlight Session is a pitch process that has independently generated several successful tours as well as developed substantive relationships between artists and presenters.

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California Presenters Receives NEA Grant

California Presenters has been awarded a $15,000 Access to Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the 2012 Artist Information Exchange conference. Nationally, in the Access to Artistic Excellence category, 789 grants out of 1,415 eligible applications were recommended for funding for a total of $24.9 million. More than $88 million was awarded through 1,145 grants to not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide.