Creating Change 2024: Disrupt, Engage, Imagine
The Creating Change Summit is an annual in-person gathering of the New Jersey arts and culture community focused on learning, inspiration, and action as we move together toward a more just, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist arts sector.
Creating Change 2024: Disrupt, Engage, Imagine
October 23, 2024 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
This annual in-person gathering of the New Jersey arts and culture community was held at Count Basie Center for the Arts on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. This summit was focused on learning, inspiration, and action as we move together toward a more just, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist arts sector.
Thank you to everyone who attended for helping to create such a memorable day.
Steering Committee
Donna Walker-Kuhne, Chair (New Jersey Performing Arts Center); Rachel Aponte (Visual Arts Center of NJ); Donia Salem Harhoor (The Outlet Dance Project); Vince Hall (ArtPride New Jersey Foundation); Deonté Griffin-Quick (Arts Management Consultant); Chase Jackson (Ocean City Arts Center); Sharnita Johnson (Victoria Foundation); Marshall Jones, III (Rutgers University); Eyesha Marable (New Jersey Performing Arts Center); John McEwen (New Jersey Theatre Alliance); Elizabeth Murphy (Gathering Ground); Erica Nagel (New Jersey Theatre Alliance); Adam Perle (ArtPride New Jersey Foundation); Michael Roberson Reid (Young Audiences of NJ and Eastern PA); Alysia Souder (The Institute of Music for Children); Sheldon Steele (Arts Advocate); Daria M. Sullivan (New Jersey Theatre Alliance); Talia Young (Newark Symphony Hall).
The Creating Change Network is a program of New Jersey Theatre Alliance in partnership with ArtPride New Jersey, with a mission to build a more equitable, just, accessible, and anti-racist arts community in New Jersey.
Guided by a steering committee of arts professionals and social justice leaders, the Creating Change Network offers ongoing opportunities for learning and collaboration to move the arts sector forward. The Creating Change Network is committed to the long-term endeavor of shifting culture, empowering leaders, sharing strategies, ensuring accountability, and sustaining hope so that individuals and organizations can progress in this work.
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