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DANIELSON — The state Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts (COA), through the new local Northeast Cultural Alliance, is hosting a public forum from 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 14 at Quinebaug Valley Community College.
The forum will be used to communicate its new direction to the arts & cultural community and to engage constituents in a planning discussion regarding the reorganization of programs and services for the next fiscal year. All welcome.
Christopher “Kip” Bergstrom, DECD’s deputy commissioner, and COA staff will be present.
There will be time for Q & A and public comment. Each forum will include small group breakout sessions to exchange ideas about constituent needs.
After consolidation, the state budget for the group will double.
The new strategy will be designed to generate a broader impact through fewer but larger grants to organizations of all sizes, as well as to individual artists, in an open and competitive grant program. Art in Public Spaces, Arts Endowment, HOT Schools, Poetry Out Loud, Peer Advisor Network, and the Connecticut State Troubadour/Connecticut Poet Laureate programs will continue as is.