Cultural Connections Program Announcement

Program Announcement

Serving New Audiences: Wallace Grantees Tell Their Stories
Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Contemporary Jewish Museum

Join our panel of museum and cultural professionals to learn about their efforts to reach new audiences through their participation in the Wallace Foundation's Excellence Awards Program. Facilitator John Killacky, Arts & Culture Program Officer at the San Francisco Foundation, will lead a discussion about lessons learned and larger issues/themes raised in the collective work. Together we will explore strategies for how to reach new audiences and apply Wallace trends, research or evaluation data to our own work.

Slides from the presentations are available at slideshare:

Speakers:

Julie Charles, Associate Curator, Education, SFMOMA
Michella Rivera-Gravage, Director of Digital Media, Center for Asian American Media
Janine Okmin, Manager of Family, Youth and Community Programs, Contemporary Jewish Museum
Sheila Pressley, Director of Education, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Polly Springhorn, Director of Development for Institutional Giving, San Francisco Girls Chorus

Moderator:

John Killacky, Arts & Culture Program Officer, San Francisco Foundation

Program

2:00 - 2:30	Check in for program at Sala Webb Education Center, first floor. Look for a Cultural Connections board member in the lobby for your admissions ticket and to direct you to the Education Center.
2:30 - 4:00	Presentations
4:00 - 5:00	Networking, snacks and tours of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum (2 tours will be offered at 4:30 PM--an architecture tour & a tour of Dateline 09)
Program Fee	Free for Cultural Connections members $10 for non-members Please RSVP for this program to ccprograms@yahoo.com
Inquiries	Email info@cultural-connections.org
Location	Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street (between Third and Fourth streets) San Francisco, CA 94103 415-655-7800
Directions and parking	For directions to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, go to: http://www.thecjm.org and click on Visit (on top, left of page) and select "Map, Directions, Hotels & Parking." Admission fees to the Museum will be waived.

Starting at 4:30 PM, participants are encouraged to select one of two special tours being offered to Cultural Connections participants: an architecture tour or a Dateline 09 exhibition tour. The architecture tour will focus on Daniel Libeskind's design, the symbolism found in the building, and the historic 1881 building. Dateline 09 inaugurates a new series of exhibitions that provide a forum for the Museum to respond to the latest developments in today's rapidly changing world. The exhibition will feature presentations of work by two of today's leading artists--photographer Adi Nes and video artist Yael Bartana. Dateline 09 is on view from January 30, 2009 to March 17, 2009.

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Save the Date for our Next Program:

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Wallace Foundation's San Francisco Excellence Awards