Neighborhoods Task Force

Meeting - 4/7/04

• Arts and cultural activities are an intrinsic part of the design and activities of community life in neighborhoods
• Music in the Parks-type concerts in all neighborhoods, including those who don’t normally get such services; free cultural events for all ages in the neighborhoods
• Genesee County Art Fair—demonstrate community and school art activities
• Proactive programs to reach into neighborhoods with arts and culture (bring arts and culture to the neighborhood and bring people to existing programs)
• [#4--Lots of interest around various goals related to increasing access to arts events and activities in the neighborhoods]

• Public art in every neighborhood
• Art parks, murals, annual events—ongoing presence of arts and culture to build ownership and sustain interest
• Youth activities/opportunities
• Opportunities exist for youth to participate in the arts in the neighborhoods—create a place for expression
• Every school has art and music taught in the school and has money available for artists’ residencies

• Local artists in neighborhoods recognized and used for proposed activities
• Every neighborhood has someone who is linked to art world and serves as a communications link—(non-traditional means of communication identified and used)
• Create a network that supports neighborhood endeavors and connects them with community-wide arts and culture resources
• Neighborhood leadership involved in planning and dialogue around arts and culture

• Neighborhood outcomes are positioned as equally important to those in other sectors in plan
• Implementation is accomplished, not just articulated in a plan

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