Connections

Community Connectors

The more ways people participate the more likely they are to engage in other activities that support community life.
Here are some ways you can participate in arts and culture and become a Community Connector right here in your own community:

· attend programs and events (click here for our Calendar of Events)

· encourage their children to participate (click here for our Children and Youth Theatre Program)

· make art as amateurs (click here for our Art Program)

· perform art as amateurs (click here for our Theatre Program)

· support the arts through donations
of time and money (click here to become a member of the Community Arts Connection)

When community builders recognize arts and cultural participation as a form of civic participation and as a potential part of engagement to other forms of civic participation, new possibilities for engaging people take shape. Arts and cultural events attract people in ways that some other types of community activities do not, and they attract people who might not participate in other types of community activities.

- Chris Walker
“Arts & Culture: Community Connections”

For most people who participate in arts and culture, the experience involves community connections with particular people or acquaintances in their communities; through community organizations that are important to them; or at places that are familiar, friendly and accessible. These community connections represent “paths of engagement,” and a deeper understanding of how those everyday connections can open new opportunities for arts and cultural organizations to build participation for those who participate infrequently in arts and culture or not at all.