Are You a Part of a Cyber Cultural Community?

The Cultural Alliance held a workshop last month on "Building High Tech and Cyber Cultural Communities."  Todays changing cultural environment presents challenges and important opportunities for the arts to contribute to the livelihood  of local communities.  We value the traditional audiences but we need to be looking beyond them to embrace their needs, interests, and spending habits. Shannon Bowman discussed the WHRO THE SCENE in Hampton Roads--truly a cyber community in the Hampton Roads area.  Tom Powell, founder and Creative Director of the Addison Group, Suffolk, covered basic points to increase our audiences and how to establish and support our company's brand.  Susan Branch Smith, Basecamp Productions, Williamsburg,  discussed the development of the web-page--for without an effective webpage, our cyber community will not grow!

I encourage you to check out their upcoming blogs.  They will give you some of the pointers that they gave us at that workshop. 

CULTURAL ALLIANCE'S MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

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Use your Cultural Alliance Member benefits today!

Previous blogs have talked about the benefits members receive from the Cultural Alliance.  Arts and cultural organizations, as well as individual artists, can reap the rewards of the membership benefits when they join the Cultural Alliance. 

Programs and workshops, which offer discount fees to members, are geared to their needs.  This year, the programs include a Help Desk with Virginia Tourism during which arts organizations can have a private meeting with the representatives from the Virginia Tourism office to discuss how to grow and market their organization or business in Virginia; a SCORE workshop with the business representatives of SCORE (Society of Retired Executives) to assist with the business side of the organization (finance, marketing, technology, etc.) and an arts conference for individual artists focusing on the Business of Being an Artist! 

As an advocacy group, the Alliance is working to help our state's elected officials see the value of the arts; but we also find that much work is needed by local arts and cultural organizations and individual artists in  this effort.  Therefore, the Alliance is sponsoring an Advocacy workshop in September to help arts groups develop strategies and procedures for meeting with and talking with the elected officials and presenting them their "stories" and how they impact on the arts in our state.

Additional benefits such as our website--on which members can add their activities, job openings, and any information that they want the public to know; use of the bulk mail permit when doing large mailings to their patrons and subscribers and the awards program that pays recognition to those in the arts.

Join the Alliance today by visiting our website and start using the membership benefits today! 

JUNE IS JAZZ MONTH! CELEBRATE WITH THE CULTURAL ALLIANCE

June Jazz Fundraiser sponsored by

the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads

 

If you are looking for a great evening out to enjoy friends, eat cuisine that complements major jazz cities, dance to the music of two bands, you must plan to attend JUNE JAZZ!  It will be held on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at the Botanical Garden, Norfolk, VA and is starts at 6:00 p.m. and we enjoy the evening until 10:00 P.m.  This is the only fundraiser sponsored by the Alliance and we really look to our friends, family, and arts advocates to come out and support our organization, to come out and have fun--an evening to be remembered.  You can check the website, www.culturalli.org/june.jazz.html.  Get your tickets early--they are $65 in advance and $75 at the door!