Midsummer is in its full glory and we Minnesotans are soaking it all up as we know so well how to do. The RACC teams are no exception, with many of us taking advantage of summer's offerings and focusing on those current joys. There are a few updates to pass along however:
The input survey team finished collecting responses July 1st and are collating results. From that information, they are working up the next stage as concerns an Arts and Cultural Center in whatever form or venue that may end up in. They will still take input (send it to raccnews@gmail.com) but they are moving forward in their process. More to come on that and on the Mayor's ideas for a kind of Chateau Theater use study as the Spaces teams gathers details.
News from the Policy team is that the Public Art Master Plan consultancy project with the Greater Rochester Arts and Cultural Trust and Forecast of St Paul will be confirmed soon. We look forward to sharing their next steps when we have more complete information.
The Finance team, headed by Cassandra Buck, is working with Rochester Area Foundation staff to learn more about options and avenues of funding and financing. Let us know if you'd be interested in working with Cassie on this team.
Public Art and Programming team, lead by Mary Ellen Landwehr, continues to make progress in its Art4Trails public art project for 2016. They are finalizing the submission process, have a good partnership going with the Parks department, and hope to begin fundraising in early August. Keep your ears open for updates on how you can participate in this exciting new public art opportunity!
As you may have discovered, there is a plethora of sources for information on all the happenings in and around our region. For a fine overall community (although primarily arts) information aggregator, check out ReVerb.mn. Among other options, you can download RochesterNow and Marquee Rochester apps for your phone, follow the 507 Magazine from the PB, submit and find events on the PB events calendar, KTTC/Fox community calendars, the Convention and Visitors bureau and the Rochester Downtown Alliance online calendars, calendars of other arts organizations such as the Rochester Music Guild and the Greater Rochester Arts and Cultural Trust - there are many ways to keep up to speed so bookmark your favorite! We'll keep sharing things on our Facebook and Twitter feeds as we are able, and feel free to post on our page with any arts and culture news you want to let the community know about.
We welcome any and all to come under our big collaborative tent and work with us. For example, would you like to be on a communications team to consider how to streamline all of these calendars? Do you know something about finance or policy and want to contribute to the work of those teams? You don't have to be an artist or an arts or cultural group administrator or a community leader - you just have to think it sounds interesting and fun. RACC is grassroots - it is YOU reading this newsletter, and we say come on in and join us!
