NEXT WEEK: ArtServe Michigan's Virtual Arts & Culture Advocacy Conference - Register Today!

The 2009 Virtual Arts & Cultural Advocacy Conference is a revolutionary new tool, designed to help organizations through these challenging times by connecting members of Michigan’s arts & cultural sector with the critical information they need regarding advocacy, communication, mobilization and sustainability. View the presentations live next week or with fresh “on-demand” content being generated everyday by new presenters, you have the option to view the archived presentations from national experts and dynamic speakers based upon your own availability, whenever and wherever you want, via the highly-interactive and media-rich interface provided by Expos2.

Don’t have time to view every single breakout session next week? NO PROBLEM – your registration entitles you to unlimited access for all of the archived presentations and materials all the way through April 3, 2009! REGISTRATION is only $30.00 and THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO REGISTER so REGISTER TODAY and come join your peers from all over the state at the Virtual Arts & Cultural Advocacy Conference for the tools, insights and inspiration you need to take your community’s advocacy efforts to the next level.

* Keynote Speech

PHIL POWER, Founder and President of The Center For Michigan.

* The Michigan Picture

MIKE LATVIS, Director of Public Policy, ArtServe Michigan

* The National Picture

JAY DICK, Director of State & Local Government Affairs, Americans for the Arts

* Strategic Communications: Target Audiences, Framing, and Messaging

EMARI DIMAGIBA, Program Director, The SPIN Project Communications Leadership Institute

* Arts Education Policies That Lead To Student Success - A Look Around the State and Nation

ANA CARDONA, Consultant for Arts Education, Office of School Improvement, Michigan Department of Education.

* $how U$ the Money: Using Federal Title Monies for Arts Education

DR. CHARLOTTE TABEREAUX, Mississippi State University

* Building Community Support for Arts Education

LAURIE SCHELL, Executive Director, California Alliance for Arts Education

* The Benefits of Branding, Design or Social Media in These Challenging Times

TIM SMITH, President of Skidmore Inc.

* Distributing Event Listings in a Fragmented News Environment

WARREN ARMSTRONG, Lead Developer, Publicdrum.org