The nation’s first truly combined National Performing Arts Convention (NPAC) will convene in Denver on June 10-14. 3,500 attendees have registered to date. Attendance is open to everyone.
Denver will be particularly alive with performances, with a total of 126 shows being offered by more than 50 theatre companies- including four world premieres and the U.S. debut of European conductor Damian Iorio in The Rape of Lucretia. Every major Colorado performing arts group will be performing. To wrap up the event in style, Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will perform during the closing session on Saturday, June 14.
Nearly 100 arts leaders and visionaries will be presenting at NPAC. Some of the best known names include acclaimed author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Jim Collins, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, Baltimore Symphony music director Marin Alsop, Venezuelan music education phenomenon Jose Antonio Abreu, current and former National Endowment for the Arts chairs Dana Gioia and Bill Ivey, actor (The West Wing, The Practice, Philadelphia, Rent, The American President) playwright and teacher Anna Deavere Smith and artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Bill Rauch – to name a few.
A cornerstone of NPAC will be the 21st Century Town Meeting of the Performing Arts, implemented by AmericaSpeaks. Caucus sessions will be held each day, designed to share ideas and create an action agenda for consideration at Saturday’s concluding Town Meeting, where the ideas that came out of the caucuses will be addressed. Using the latest technologies, topics will be consolidated, discussed and voted upon by all present, each with an individual touch pad, to establish priorities for action toward a stronger future for the performing arts in America.
Arts Town, located in the exhibition hall will house 215 exhibitors, performances, a public library and bookstore, the POP Cyber Café, free coffee and many other services and features.
Registration information, a full list of presenters, performances, sessions, and a list of participating performing arts organizations can be found at http://www.performingartsconvention.org/.
Denver will be particularly alive with performances, with a total of 126 shows being offered by more than 50 theatre companies- including four world premieres and the U.S. debut of European conductor Damian Iorio in The Rape of Lucretia. Every major Colorado performing arts group will be performing. To wrap up the event in style, Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will perform during the closing session on Saturday, June 14.
Nearly 100 arts leaders and visionaries will be presenting at NPAC. Some of the best known names include acclaimed author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Jim Collins, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, Baltimore Symphony music director Marin Alsop, Venezuelan music education phenomenon Jose Antonio Abreu, current and former National Endowment for the Arts chairs Dana Gioia and Bill Ivey, actor (The West Wing, The Practice, Philadelphia, Rent, The American President) playwright and teacher Anna Deavere Smith and artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Bill Rauch – to name a few.
A cornerstone of NPAC will be the 21st Century Town Meeting of the Performing Arts, implemented by AmericaSpeaks. Caucus sessions will be held each day, designed to share ideas and create an action agenda for consideration at Saturday’s concluding Town Meeting, where the ideas that came out of the caucuses will be addressed. Using the latest technologies, topics will be consolidated, discussed and voted upon by all present, each with an individual touch pad, to establish priorities for action toward a stronger future for the performing arts in America.
Arts Town, located in the exhibition hall will house 215 exhibitors, performances, a public library and bookstore, the POP Cyber Café, free coffee and many other services and features.
Registration information, a full list of presenters, performances, sessions, and a list of participating performing arts organizations can be found at http://www.performingartsconvention.org/.
