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Transforming: Community Relationships

Culture in My Neighborhood: Bringing the Arts To Every Community and Every Library

Saturday, June 24, 2023
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Location: McCormick Place, W186
CPL, in partnership with DCASE and the Chicago Park District (CPD), is creating cultural hubs in libraries and parks throughout the City. Learn about the first-ever Artist in Residence at the newly renovated Legler Regional Library on the west side, and hear how libraries and parks are connecting with the community to bring year-round arts opportunities to children, families, and adults. Working with library teams, libraries, are bringing a range of cultural offerings to connect with their community from local dance groups to concerts to the theatre. Library, park, and cultural leaders will highlight how arts are prioritized and infused at the neighborhood level.

Learning Objectives:

  • Design a comprehensive cultural initiative for their library system and/or their location.
  • Understand how to partner with other civic and cultural leaders to bring arts programming to communities.
  • To develop an artist in residence to infuse arts programming into the day-to-day programming of your location.