Upcoming Event Making Moves: Akron

With the launch of their second book, Artists on Creative Administration, the Museum is celebrating the National Center for Choreography alongside ArtsNow, The Nightlight Cinema, and Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre.

A panel discussion will showcase local case studies and contributing authors, which will then be followed by a Talking Heads dance party to their 1984 film, Stop Making Sense.

• 6:30-7:45pm panel in Museum’s auditorium
• 8:30-10pm Film screening in Garden

More about the event:

Join NCCAkron for Making Moves: Akron, a panel discussion and book launch event for Artists on Creative Administration (AOCA), featuring regional arts leaders and national book contributors.

• Christy Bolingbroke, Executive/Artistic Director of NCCAkron and AOCA Contributing Author
• Jenn Kidd, Executive Director of The Nightlight Cinema
• Tonya Lockyer, Arts Leader/Cultural Strategist and AOCA Editor and Contributing Author
• Dominic Moore-Dunson, Akron-based Choreographer and AOCA Contributing Author
• David Shimotakahara, Founding Artistic Director of GroundWorks DanceTheater
• Three leaders from the Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture

Artists on Creative Administration will be available for purchase through local bookseller Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre and the first 25 event registrants will receive a complimentary copy, sponsored by ArtsNow. You must attend the event to claim your free copy.

Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography, will be published September 24, 2024, by The University of Akron Press as part of their NCCAkron Series in Dance. Edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer this book features essays from and interviews with 30 artists and advocates from the dance and performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.

Continuing the celebration of creativity and movement, The Nightlight Cinema will screen Stop Making Sense outside in the Bud & Susie Rogers Garden. Stop Making Sense is an independently produced 1984 concert film featuring a live concert performance by Talking Heads. Bring blankets and picnics to sit and watch, or dance the night away! Film screening is weather-dependent.

Free. Registration Requested.