FoCocreates: Arts and Culture Master Plan

On the Carnegie Center: Great opportunity to have a black box performance space within a building that can serve the local makers and Foco.

It can serve as: performance space, education center for grants etc, research and collaboration within the science and artistic community, a place for ideas to percolate and grow, ability to house residencies and so many other things.

showcase on public access tv

Did you know FC has a public access TV station in the Carnegie building? - use it to showcase your art -have your non-profit partner for informative videos

Love the focus on equity and inclusion not only as a goal, throughout document.

Provide support for attending arts and culture conferences

Our artists and cultural entrepreneurs need to have access to the latest ideas and developments in order to play their full part in contributing to a thriving arts and culture scene in Fort Collins. Yet few can afford to cover the necessary travel, accommodation and fees. Fort Collins should launch a travel fund that can expand city-wide access to the trends and business practices that are equal to improving the health and fuel the growth of our sector.

The City should work with the arts organization to pass the Scientific and Cultural District similar to Denver. It would help them greatly

Pop Up Performance Fleet

Instead of expecting the people to come to the arts, bring the arts to the people. A modest fleet of shipping container stages could provide enrichment to underserved neighborhoods and peoples. This could also provide expanded performance opportunities for marginalized and ethnocentric artists (dancers, musicians, actors, performance artists, spoken word artists, etc.) https://www.isospaces.co.uk/portfolio/boxpark-popup-stage-shipping-container/

Ethnic festivals/Street fairs

Literally, in the streets of different neighborhoods with music, dancing, food, etc.

Tagline Ideas

To help jump-start our brainstorming for taglines, here are some rough ideas: One Town, Many Voices. / Living Together, Working Together, Creating Together. / Where Culture Has Lease. / Collectively Creating The Future. / Creating The Future Together. / A Tapestry Of Possibilities. / A Tapestry Of Purpose. / Living Art. / The United States Of Creativity. / The United States Of Artistry. / The United States Of Possibility. / Evolve. Emerge. Expand. / Becoming. /

Foster and subsidize diverse cultural expression from immigrant populations and minority groups

Fort Collins has a considerable foreign population from a wide range of countries. They all bring their unique ways of cultural expressions through language, visual arts, music, dance, literature and gastronomy. Fostering and, most importantly, subsidizing cultural events (such as seasonal festivals, talks/discussions, publications, etc) following a well-structured plan involving many sections of the community in order to all residents to be exposed to this rich and diverse part of the Fort Collins could bring a more interesting cultural life to the city. Immigration is an important pilar of this country's history and it still is a big part of the US' reality as immigration still happens in big numbers. At the same time, making these City actions as inclusive as possible to racial, social, gender and sexual minorities in practical terms would only enrich the cultural life of the city, provide visibility to these groups and social awareness to Fort Collins residents, as diversity in its entirety is often underrepresented in town.

Create options for young adults (+19) with disabilities to participate in theater productions year round

Theater is one of the proven ways to build social skills and friendship for young adults with disabilities. Individuals with a disability that are over the age of 21 have few to no options for social development outside of paid service providers. This would help our community at large and those who are looking for belonging in our community.

FC was a cultural capital of the Native American genocide + cultural erasure. We can instead contribute to the regeneration of culture.

We can undertake a systemic analysis of our placenames and momuments to ensure we are not honoring participants in genocide or hanging on to painful names. We can imagine a vocation for our city as regenerators of culture and heritage. We can advance native american art and creativity without appropriating it.

24hrs of Art

A festival that is contained in a 24hr period. Example. Breakfast starts at 8am on a Sat with chamber music in the Oak street plaza. Then onward to the FCMoa for a show or event. Then at say 10am there is a band in the square with local artists plein air painting all around town. Then maybe a dance troupe at the Azatlan Center, etc. Overnight Hodies or the Aggie or both could have a free show. Overnight maybe the discovery center could be open. Ending with the symphony playing for breakfast in Library Park. Each group would bring their clientele along and would be responsible for marketing to their people. The groups would be responsible for their own set up and take down and their own costs. Now that we have another downtown hotel this would become a destination style enterprise. A lot of the needed products, (food, marketing, printing) could be traded for sponsorship's. Imagine all the different groups that would participate, dancers, musicians, museums, painters, sculptors, actors and more!

Global Village Museum belongs downtown

The GVM's location at 200 W. Mountain ensures positive use of city-owned space. This unique cultural asset needs a long-term lease at non-profit rates.