FoCo Creates: Arts and Culture Master Plan

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

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

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.

Ethnic festivals/Street fairs

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

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/

Nothing controversial!

Nothing controversial! Because it divides! Do something that EVERYONE will enjoy!

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.

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. /

Local Artists Work Wrapped on Transfort Busses

This is a program already active in several cities across the country (I just saw it in Raleigh, NC). This program would be much like the Transfromer Cabinet and Pianos About Town program. Artists would submit a visual image of their work (this could include sculpture, photo, fiber, and many other media that are not allowed for the Transformer and Piano programs) to be wrapped around a city bus. Local non-profits such as FCMOA, C4FAP, and the Museum of Discovery could also submit images to publicize upcoming exhibits,

Culture Night -- Annual culture night out

Host an annual Culture Night. It could be based on the Culture Night model in Belfast and around the world. It is Belfast's largest, most exciting and inclusive cultural celebration. Culture Night brings together over 300 free events across 150 locations in Belfast City Centre in a single day. The event attracts over 85,000 visitors from Belfast, Northern Ireland and beyond. We attended in 2016 and it was one of the most amazing events I've ever been to!

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.

Organized volunteer effort to encourage the private sector to fund arts & culture.

If we're going to use city funds to increase funding for arts & culture in Fort Collins, we should put the funding towards an organized effort to raise money from the private sector.

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!