Arts Midwest

The arts face the same legal and business challenges that any other businesses do, but getting the answers and clarifications you need can be challenging and frustrating. Languish no more -– from contracts, copyrights, and licensing to visas and taxes, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, practices, and management, Brian will answer your questions, concerns, quandaries, and consternations in this lively forum, where you’ll get important updates and be amazed, and after which you’ll leave entertained, enlightened, and empowered.

Clowes Memorial Hall and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra have developed best practices for using the power of the Internet and mobile media to attract audiences, expose artists to the marketplace, and create commerce. During this session, presenters will learn how social media is currently being integrated into traditional marketing campaigns; how to use Web site analytics to evaluate effectiveness; and how to develop contact strategies and coordinated marketing campaigns that utilize social media, conventional media, Web sites, and e-mail.

Can our industry take a more collaborative approach to programming? To finding new paradigms in making deals? To seeking more interaction between agents, managers, artists, and presenters in marketing the product? Join in the dialogue as we seek solutions for this ever-changing environment.

Organizing support for this session provided by NAPAMA.

As agents, managers, and artists, you’re already on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter; you have your own Web site; and you probably have a blog, too. So, how do you put these tools to use in a more effective manner and build your network of fans and clients? This session will explain how to create a social media marketing campaign and put it to work to grow your network and accomplish your specific goals.

Open to presenters only.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Open to consortium members only; block-booking discussion.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Membership meeting of the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents.

Open to consortium members only; block-booking discussion.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Open to consortium members only; block-booking discussion.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Open to members only; block-booking discussion.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Open to presenters only; block booking discussion.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Open to presenters only; block booking discussion.

Note: Also meets 9/14/10 from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

By embracing the current, unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime economic conditions as a catalyst and opportunity for renewal, reinvigoration, and reinvention, how can arts organizations capitalize on the creative possibilities in the emerging landscape and become powerful engines of innovation and prosperity in our communities? By owning our personal and organizational creative resources, we can envision and empower our communities through the creativity engendered by a new 21st-century role for the arts. This workshop will offer constructive and practical ways to reinvent your role in the community and prosper in a difficult time.

Our IT communication gadgets are chatting away, but what about our ears, eyes, and voices? The arts experiences that our organizations offer occur between live human beings, and live communication is also vital for the health and creativity of our organizations, partnerships, and communities. This workshop will offer group and interpersonal dialogue methods, followed by discussion between the panel and attendees about what works and what is needed to keep us communicating – human to human.

As a presenter of performing arts events, do you wonder how to package and sell jazz events? Ticket data provides some information about attendees – but why do they come? Discover the latest knowledge about how and why consumers choose to participate in nonprofit and for-profit jazz venues from a recent study funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which focuses on the behaviors and attitudes of people who listen to and attend jazz events. Session attendees will gain valuable knowledge about how to broaden, deepen, and diversify your audiences and fans, for jazz events and beyond.

When you book an artist, are you hiring the artist or the manager? When you represent an artist, who is the client? What does it really mean to be an agent? When is someone an independent contractor or an employee? Who really should be getting a 1099 tax form? These issues impact everything from contract liability and tax obligations to licensing and ethical duties, and should be understood by artists, presenters, and managers/agents alike. This session promises to pull back the sheets and reveal all!