BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:298@downtownnj.com DTSTART:20200929T000000Z DTEND:20210727T000000Z DTSTAMP:20200912T001342Z URL:https://www.downtownnj.com/events/creative-placemaking-series/ SUMMARY:Creative Placemaking Leadership Webinars DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nInteractive\, engaging webinars to introduce creative p lacemaking foundational concepts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Placemaking is the next big idea in leading communities through healing and recovery. Ge t the foundation now to forge resilience.\n\nCreative placemaking is susta ined collaboration among people of diverse professional and personal backg rounds who enhance the places they live\, work\, and play through art and creative process.\n\nThe National Consortium for Creative Placemaking is a pioneer in this field and is now offering interactive\, engaging webinars to introduce foundational concepts. NCCP webinars help community leaders engage their own creativity to drive healing\, recovery and resilience. Ch eck out our 2020-2021 lineup of affordable\, monthly webinars.\n\nEvery we binar is from 2 pm to 3 pm EASTERN\, unless otherwise stated.\n\nAfter the webinar\, please join us for a half hour of small group conversations onl ine. There\, you can talk about the topic with other participants and grow your connections.\n\nAll webinars have been approved for AICP certificati on maintenance credits.\n\nAll webinars are recorded for registrants in ca se you cannot attend in real time.\n\nPlease note that the $20/webinar fee supports the work of The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking\, a 501 c (3) nonprofit organization that offers expertise and peer learning to leaders who seek creative placemaking knowledge and skills to foster mo re just\, equitable\, and livable communities through art and creative pro cess.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to Erica Henderson-S mith at erica@cpcommunities.org.\nSpecial: Webinar Bundle - All 12 Webinar s for the price of 10\, a 20% discount!\nDNJ Member Perk: DNJ members get an extra 10% off the already discounted bundle price. Don't know if you're a member\, look it up on our member page.\n[maxbutton id="6" url="https:/ /www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-placemaking-leadership-webinars-registratio n-116926818261?discount=WEBINARBUNDLEDNJ30" ]\nUpcoming Webinars:\nIf you prefer a PDF of the events\, please follow this LINK\n\n\n\n\nSeptember 2 9: Culturally Competent Placemaking: Part 1 - Human Needs Placemaking\n\nS upports: Healing\, Recovery and Resilience\n\nPresenter: Leonardo Vazquez\ , AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The National Consortium for Creative Place making\n\nWhat makes people happy? They want their needs met. In this webi nar\, we’ll explore what psychologists say are six universal human needs \, and how creative placemakers can address them in their work. Understand ing core human needs will help you understand not just what people say\, b ut what they mean.\n\n---------------------------------------------------- ------------------\n\nOctober 21: Culturally Competent Placemaking: Part 2 - Community Engagement and Triple Loop Learning\n\nSupports: Healing\n\nP resenter: Patricia Wilson\, Professor\, University of Texas Austin and aut hor of The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe\n\nArtful place-making requires skillful community engagement. Far more than facilitating question/answer sessions with stakeholders or t he public\, the practitioner must build a partnership of trust and mutual learning. Triple Loop Learning opens the practitioner's awareness to this subjective side of community engagement. It develops the reflective skills to see what is really going on\, what is needed in the moment\, and how y our own expertise may be creating obstacles to change. Dr. Patricia Wilson \, author of The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe\, shares the harvest from her stories of community engage ment in the most challenging of situations. Come explore the art and craft of fostering meaningful dialogue\, learning\, and action.\n\n------------ -------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNovember 17: Building more resilient communities through creative placemaking\n\nSu pports: Resilience\n\nPresenter: Leonardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Di rector\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nResilient com munities don’t just come back from difficult challenges\; they grow bett er. Many communities in the United States face a combination of social\, c ultural\, economic and environmental challenges: flooding\, storms\, disea se\, poverty\, oppression and more. Resilience is more than creative physi cal improvements to withstand storms\; it also connects to a community’s ability to revitalize quickly after disaster. Arts and culture can play a big role in helping communities recover. We will explore examples from Lo uisiana\, New Jersey and Missouri\, and discuss how to connect creative pl acemaking with resiliency in community dialogues.\n\n--------------------- -----------------------------------------------------\n\nDecember 1: Artfu l Urban Design Part 1: Growing your cultural ecosystem\n\nSupports: Recove ry and Resilience\n\nPresenter: Leonardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Dire ctor\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nYou want more a rts and cultural activities in your community? (Of course you do\, otherwi se\, why would you be reading this?) This webinar will help you identify a nd design outdoor spaces that encourage artists and cultural professionals to become more productive\, sell or exhibit their work\; and provide more opportunities for other community members to enjoy art and cultural activ ities.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------- -----------\n\nJanuary 12: Artful Urban Design Part 2: Public art for bett er mental and physical health\n\nSupports: Healing\, Recovery and Resilie nce\n\nPresenter: Leonardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The Nat ional Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nArt in public places can help people move around\, slow down\, feel safer and more valued\, and more. W e’ll explore how to encourage and place outdoor art to achieve these pur poses.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------\n\nFebruary 16: Financing Creative Placemaking\n\nSupports: R ecovery and Resilience\n\nPresenter: Leonardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nThere’s a lot of money available for creative placemaking. Unfortunately\, it’s in a lot of different places\, and can be hard to get. This webinar\, desi gned for people who are new to fundraising\, or seasoned fundraisers who a re new to creative placemaking\, explores different types of funding avail able for your types of projects and programs. You will get tips to develop your fundraising strategy.\n\n------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\nMarch 30: Economic development basics for artists\, designers and makers\n\nSupports: Recovery\n\nPresenter: Le onardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nGood information will help you convince and persu ade public officials\, developers\, grant makers. It will also help you ev aluate whether things are working as expected. There's a lot of data for e conomic analysis. This session will help you focus on the right sources to get the best answers.\n\n------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------\n\nApril 20: Artists as social change agents\ n\nSupports: Healing\, Recovery and Resilience\n\nPresenters: Leonardo Vaz quez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking with additional presenters to be announced\n\nThe arts can hel p make communities better for everyone. But how? This conversation explore s how the arts can change what people know and believe\, and how they enga ge in their communities\, which are fundamental to how communities change. You will explore typical community cultural dynamics\, and why it is so d ifficult to address obstacles such as the tyranny of custom and the comfor t of powerlessness.\n\n--------------------------------------------------- -------------------------\n\nMay 11: Working with artists on creative plac emaking\n\nSupports: Resilience\n\nPresenters: Leonardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\ , Founding Director\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking wit h additional presenters to be announced\n\nFor professionals in government \, community development\, or economic development\, working with artists on creative placemaking can be fun\, frustrating\, comforting\, nerve-wrac king\, eye-opening\, or eye-rolling -- all at the same time. We’ll explo re how to understand and respect different ways of problem solving and how to have more productive relationships.\n\n------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------\n\nJune 15: Ethics and compe tencies in creative placemaking\n\nSupports: Resilience\n\nInstructor: Leo nardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nBetween 2018 and 2019\, participants in Creative P lacemaking Leadership Summits were asked three key questions: What should creative placemakers believe? What should creative placemakers know? and W hat should people involved in creative placemaking do? From the hundreds o f responses\, we identified a shared sense of ethics and desired competenc ies for creative placemaking. This webinar is designed for anyone who teac hes creative placemaking or leads organizations that work in this area.\n\ n------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\nJuly 13: History of Creative Placemaking in the United States P art 1\n\nJuly 27: History of Creative Placemaking in the United States Par t 2\n\nPresenter: Leonardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, Founding Director\, The Nat ional Consortium for Creative Placemaking\n\nThe term creative placemaking was coined only a decade ago\, but it has been happening in various forms in the US since at least the late 19th century. This webinar will explore the earliest work in creative placemaking in America. Participants will l earn about the pioneering work of Charles Mulford Robinson\, Edgar Lee Hew ett and others\, and discover how placemaking through arts and culture has evolved over more than a century.\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter biographies:\n\nLe onardo Vazquez\, AICP/PP\, is the Founding Director of The National Consor tium for Creative Placemaking and Director of Creative Placemaking for New England College. He has worked on social justice issues for more than 30 years as a journalist\, urban planners\, educator\, and creative placemake r. He designed Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits\, the Certificate i n Creative Placemaking\, Community Coaching and many other programs offere d by NCCP. He is the author of Leading from the Middle: Strategic Thinking for Urban Planning and Community Development Professionals and is co-edit or of Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities. He is a co-founder of the Latinos and Planning division of the American Planning Association\, c hairs the Sustainable Jersey Arts and Creative Culture Task Force\, and si ts on the Maplewood (NJ) Arts Council. He is the 2012 recipient of the Ame rican Planning Association’s National Leadership Award for Advancing Div ersity and Social Justice in honor of Paul Davidoff.\n\nPatricia A. Wilson \, Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texa s\, Austin\, teaches civic engagement\, participatory action research\, an d international community development. Her field research in community-bas ed change processes over three decades includes Latin America\, South Afri ca\, India\, and the United States. A past president of Sociedad Interamer icana de Planificación\, she holds a B.A. from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Cornell. About her most recent book\, The Heart of Community Engagement: P ractitioner Stories from Across the Globe (Routledge\, 2019)\, the Journal of Planning Education and Research writes "Easy to read and inspiring\, W ilson is a good storyteller with good stories to tell....A great book for students and scholars of community development or placemaking who want to do more than mere facilitation or 'community outreach.'\n\nWho are they fo r?\n\nCreative placemaking by definition involves people from a variety of backgrounds. We therefore welcome community leaders from a wide range of professions and perspectives\, including the following:\n\nArchitecture\, Arts\, Arts Administration\, Business\, Chambers of Commerce\, Community D evelopment\, Community volunteers/activists/Design professionals\, Develop ers\, Economic developers\, Education/teachers/students\,Food systems/food banks\, Healthcare and Wellness\, Industry\, Justice Systems\, Library sc ience\, Main Street professionals\, Makers\, Museum professionals\, Nonpro fit professionals\, Public officials\, Policy wonks\, Urban Planners.\n\n\ n CATEGORIES:Professional Development END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR