The League of Historic American Theatres presents . . .
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
A New Historic Theatre Forum Focusing On Community & Cultural Development
October 18-20, 2009
Hosted by PROCTORS
Schenectady, NY
The League is pleased to present a day-and-a-half forum using the experiences of Proctors and Schenectady, New York as a lens for investigating the complicated and interconnected work of community and cultural development. Schenectady was once a company town, where General Electric was the employer. But, when manufacturing moved south, then abroad, Schenectady declined, then reached rock bottom about a dozen years ago.
Located in an otherwise stable region and blessed with a partially restored, fairly busy, but never modernized old vaudeville theatre — Proctors — community leaders imagined a redevelopment effort using aggressive expansion plans for the theatre as the core element to revitalize the central business district. Proctors is now a multi-theatre, community performing arts center open year-round offering a wide range of programming and community uses.
Proctors $42 million investment leveraged over $150 million of other private and public expenditures. And the effort was community-wide . . . public planning, meeting and investment . . . private investment . . . tough timetables . . . establishing spaces for artists and commerce.
Join us to celebrate a great success story, learn from Proctors and advise them as they continue on the path of cultural and community renewal.
RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY! REGISTER ONLINE THROUGH OUR SECURE SERVER.
http://www.lhat.org/programs_services/education.asp#tloz
Register by September 18th for Lowest Rates!
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
- It's a great opportunity for you and your team to learn from and share with your peers wisdom, information, techniques and stories about community cultural development.
- Visit a historic theatre and community transformed; learn first-hand from their experience.
- Engage local economic development leaders, elected officials and volunteers of all sorts.
- Identify strategies for “greening” your historic theatre.
- TEAM DISCOUNT! Three or more from same organization receive 20% off registration!
Questions and topics to be discussed include:
- What’s unique about my community?
- Why is my theatre so special that it can save my town?
- It’s Impossible! My community could never do this!
- How do we expand or grow without threatening the historic character of our theatre?
- So, who’s going to use this place?
- Where does the passion come from?
REGISTER TODAY at WWW.LHAT.ORG!
League of Historic American Theatres
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