Creating Change 2025: Meeting the Moment and Building Beyond

SAVE THE DATE!
Creating Change 2025:
Meeting the Moment and Building Beyond
October 29, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Count Basie Center for the Arts
Red Bank, NJ
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.
Registration details to come.
Check out some photos from last year’s Creating Change 2024: Disrupt, Engage, Imagine!
View the all the photos from the event on Facebook!



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); Jessica Gaines (New Jersey State Council on the Arts); Deonté Griffin-Quick (DGQ Culture); 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); Gwen Ricks-Spencer (Ernst & Young); Michael Roberson Reid (Young Audiences of NJ and Eastern PA); Daria M. Sullivan (New Jersey Theatre Alliance); Kayla Kim Votapek (Consortium of Asian American Theatre Artists); 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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