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2018 Winter Member’s Meeting: Advocacy Edition Wrap-up

Submitted by: DC Collaborative Team February 12, 2018

More than 75 people attended The DC Collaborative’s Winter Member’s Meeting on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at GALA Hispanic Theatre. This meeting focused on advocacy and followed the theme of:

PowerPoint 

Agenda (Winter Member’s Meeting Agenda Recap is the third section down... Keep scrolling! We had lots of info to cover!)

Attended? Take the Post-Meeting Feedback Survey

DC Council Hearing Schedule

All of the presenters at the Winter Members Meeting focused on important dates coming up this advocacy season! Please download the the full DC Council hearing schedule and see relevant dates for arts and humanities education advocacy below. DC Alliance of Youth Advocates also has a lot of advocacy resources in their most recent blog.

Calling All Teachers: Bring your students to perform and/or have them share why arts and humanities are important to them!

Calling All Members: Testify and make sure the importance of arts and humanities education are part of your testimony. Mention that you are a member of the DC Collaborative!

Education Committee

To testify: sign up here or call 202-724-8061  

Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education and Public Charter School Board Performance Oversight: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 11 am in Room 123 Budget Hearing: Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 10 am in Room 123 

State Board of Education Performance Oversight: Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 10 am in Room 120 Budget Hearing: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 10 am in Room 120

Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) Performance Oversight: Thursday, February 27, 2018 at 11 am in Room 500 Budget Hearing: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 10 am in Room 412

District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) - Public Witnesses Only Performance Oversight: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 11 am in Room 412 Budget Hearing: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 10 am in Room 412

District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) Performance Oversight: Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 11 am in Room 123 Budget Hearing: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 10 am in Room 120

District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) - Government Witnesses Only Performance Oversight: Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 11 am in Room 500 Budget Hearing: Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 10 am in Room 500

Committee on Finance and Revenue

To testify: contact Sarina Loy at sloy@dccouncil.us or call 202-724-8058

Commission on the Arts and Humanities Performance Oversight: Monday, February 26, 2018 at 10 am in Room 120 Budget Hearing: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 10 am in Room 500

Other Important Dates Discussed

In addition to the DC Council hearing dates presenters discussed other advocacy opportunities as well as opportunities to review the DC Cultural Plan Working Draft. Organizations and individuals should provide comments to DCculturalplan@dc.gov by February 28. The DC Office of planning will be holding an open house on February 20 and the DC Collaborative will be holding a review focused on our arts and humanities education lens on February 21. More info about each event is in our Agenda Recap. Keep scrolling!

DC Cultural Plan:

DC Living Heritage Network: Cultural Plan Meeting- Wednesday, February 14, 4:00-5:30 PM | Northeast Neighborhood Library.

DC Office of Planning: Open House on the DC Cultural Plan- Tuesday February 20, 5:30-7:30 PM | 441 4th Street, NW (Old Council Chambers).

DC Collaborative: Collective Impact Committee- Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:00-5:00 PM | DC Collaborative Offices 923 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20004. RSVP Here Cultural Plan review and drafting group comments.

DC Living Heritage Network: Cultural Plan Meeting- Thursday, February 22, 4:00-5:30 PM | Southwest Neighborhood Library.

DC Cultural Plan Working Draft: Public Comment due- Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Send to DCculturalplan@dc.gov. Questions? email Sakina Khan- sakina.khan@dc.gov.

Grant Opportunities:

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: FY19 General Operating Support Grants Due- Friday, March 2, 2018. More Info.

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: FY19 Public Art Building Communities Grants Due- Friday, April 6, 2018. More Info.

National and DC Arts Advocacy Dates:

Americans for the Arts: National Arts Advocacy Day and Nancy Hanks Lecture- Monday, March 12, 2018 and Tuesday, March 13, 2018- More Info.

ArtsAction DC: DCArts Advocacy Training Day- Monday, March 5, 5:30-7:30 PM | Arena Stage Event Info Here.

ArtsAction DC: DC Arts Advocacy Day- Wednesday, March 14, 10:00 AM | John A. Wilson Building Event Info Here.

Conferences and Community Events:

DC Public Schools, Arts: Honor Ensemble Concert- March 17, 5:00-6:00 PM | Duke Ellington School for the Arts.

National Guild for Community Arts Education: Conference for Community Arts Education Session Proposal Deadline- April 16, 2018.

DC Public Schools, Arts: DCPS Music Festival- May 21-23, 2018 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM | Kennedy Center Millennium Stages.

National Guild for Community Arts Eduction: Conference for Community Arts Education- November 14-17, 2018 | Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel.

DC State Board of Education meets twice a month. Their meeting schedule can be found here.

DC Collaborative: Any Given Child Collective Impact Survey- Fill out the survey by February 28 to be entered to receive tickets to Choral Arts Society spring concerts!

Winter Member’s Meeting Agenda Recap

Thanks to everyone for your interest in the 2018 Winter Members Meeting: Advocacy Edition!

Missed the meeting? View the PowerPoint and Agenda!

Attended? We want to hear from you! Give us your feedback in the brief Post-Meeting Feedback Survey!

Host Welcome- Rebecca Medrano, Co-founder and Executive Director, GALA Hispanic Theatre. We really appreciate GALA Theatre and thank them for hosting us and providing refreshments!

DC Collaborative Call to Order- Linda Harper, President, DC Collaborative Board of Directors. Thanks to our board president, Linda Harper! She leads the organization beautifully. As our emcee, Linda made sure we stuck to the agenda and got out on time- almost!

Guest Speaker- David Grosso, Chairperson, Committee on Education, Council of the District of Columbia. Councilmember Grosso spoke to members about why arts, culture and the humanities are so important and told us about some important hearing dates and activities at the Wilson Building. We are most appreciative that he was able to take time out of the demanding February hearing schedule and prioritize speaking to us about why the arts matter.

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Update- Arthur Espinoza, Jr., Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Thank you to Director Arthur Espinoza for teeing-up the Cultural Plan Working Draft presentation and providing some updates on upcoming grant deadlines for General Operating Support grants and Public Art Building Communities. View more info on the Current Grant Opportunities section of CAH’s website.

DC Cultural Plan Update- Sakina Khan and Ryan Hand, DC Office of Planning. DC Office of Planning went through their timeline and processes for the cultural plan development and discussed points specific to education throughout the recently released DC Cultural Plan Working Draft.  The working draft is open for public comment through February 28. The theme running through the plan is “All Infrastructure is a Stage & Every Resident is a Performer” and discussed the framework of Space, Creator, Consumer and how education is woven throughout these three areas. They also discussed their recommendations specific to youth which can be found in the PowerPoint. Our community needs to download the plan and provide feedback! 

Advocacy and Collective Impact Update- Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe, Executive Director DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Lissa discussed the important dates coming up for the DC Collaborative Members to participate in feedback to the DC Cultural Plan Working Draft.  RSVP Here for the Collaborative’s Collective Impact Committee meeting. We will review the plan together with an arts and humanities education lens and write our public comments. In addition, Lissa shared the DC Living Heritage Network’s meetings reviewing the DC Cultural Plan Working Draft through the humanities lens. She also discussed opportunities for the community to provide testimony at relevant Education and Finance and Revenue hearings, (See the ‘DC Council Hearing Schedule’ section above for a full list.)

In the spirit of “We Accomplish MORE When We Work Together,” Lissa reminded the attendees to fill out the Any Given Child Collective Impact Survey. Fill it out by February 28, to be entered to win a pari of tickets to Choral Arts Society spring concerts!

As a steering committee member, Lissa gave an update for ArtsAction DC and promoted their Arts Advocacy Training Day on March 5 and local DC Arts Advocacy Day on March 14. 

ArtsAction DC has helpful directions for Cultural Plan Working Draft review:

Download the plan here. 

Read it! 

Then comment to the Office of Planning via email to DCculturalplan@dc.gov. Please cc ArtsAction DC artsactiondc@gmail.com with your comments.

DC State Board of Education Update-John-Paul Hayworth, Executive Director, DC State Board of Education gave an update regarding the ESSA implementation including new report cards. He also talked about his personal connection to the arts and shared the DC State Board of Education Meeting Schedule with attendees.

DC Public Schools, Arts Update- Nathan Diamond, Director, DC Public Schools, Arts discussed the Honors Ensemble Concert and the DCPS Music Festival coming up this spring.

DC Collaborative Member Feature- Mauricio Pita, Director of Education, GALA Hispanic Theatre summarized GALA Hispanic Theatre’s education programs including the Galita Student Matinee program and the Paso Nuevo Youth program. Contact Mauricio at education@gala.org.

Federal Update- Jeff Poulin, Arts Education Manager, Americans for the Arts gave a national updates and discussed the recent arts policy successes and challenges. He also encouraged members to sign up for National Arts Advocacy Day. Our Executive Director, Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe is the DC State Captain for Arts Advocacy Day.

National Guild for Community Arts Education Update- James Horton, Director of Learning & Leadership Development, National Guild for Community Arts Education introduced attendees to what National Guild for Community Arts Education does:

Develops Tomorrow’s Leaders

Strengthening Organizations

Advocating for Community Arts Education

James also discussed 2018’s Community Arts Education Conference in November 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore. The Session Proposal Deadline (April 16th) and let attendees know that he wants DC’s input in the shape of the conference and that there will be a DC planning meeting in March. Date TBA!

Quick Links

Winter Member’s Meeting PowerPoint 

Winter Member’s Meeting Agenda

Winter Member’s Meeting Post-Meeting Feedback Survey

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Current Grant Opportunities

DC Cultural Plan Working Draft

DC Collaborative Cultural Plan Review- Collective Impact Committee Meeting. RSVP Here

DC Collaborative Any Given Child Collective Impact Survey

ArtsAction DC Website

ArtsAction DC- DC Arts Advocacy Training Day- March 5

ArtsAction DC- Arts Advocacy Day DC! March 14

DC Council Education Committee Hearing Sign-up

DC Council full hearing schedule

DC State Board of Education Meeting Schedule

Register for Americans for the Arts’ Arts Advocacy Day

GALA Hispanic Theatre 

National Guild for Community Arts Education

Community Arts Education Conference