You’re invited to the forum
featuring priya sircar!
January 22, 2025 at Community Matters Cafe
Just how creative is Charlotte? Are we truly taking risks and innovating in the arts? What’s next for art and culture in Charlotte? What’s holding us back and how might we move forward?
Priya Sircar has surprising answers.
While many arts practitioners strive for positive change, our communities and leaders are often tied to existing methods, philosophies, and structures even when it’s clear those no longer serve them—or never did. This conversation will address how we can help our communities envision new realities through bold, incremental advances.
This event will explore the dynamics of arts and cultural activity, policy and practice, and the choices we have made and will make that will shape the future of the region.
Priya Sircar is Founder of Road Openers, LLC, whose mission is to help people and ideas achieve their full potential by connecting them to collaborators, resources, and creative energy. Priya has supported arts and culture in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County since 2018, first as Director of Arts at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and then as the City of Charlotte's inaugural Arts and Culture Officer.
Priya has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master's in Arts Administration from Columbia University. She is a dancer-choreographer, poet, and award-winning filmmaker.
Moderated by David ‘Dae-Lee’ Arrington
David ‘Dae-Lee’ Arrington is a Grammy nominated producer, leadership coach, and creative entrepreneur. He is the owner of Bridge Building Consulting, co-owner of Hue House creative agency and host of the Bridge Builder Conversations podcast.
Connect. Consider. Ignite. The program runs from 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM including time for conversation, connections, and Q&A.
The Forum has a three-part structure:
• First third: Participants connect and build relationships in small break-out groups prompted by a question;
• Middle third: Participants consider a presentation that ends with the speaker posing a community-facing question;
• Final third: Participants discuss the question, igniting new ideas and interactions.
THE HUMANITIES | Languages | Literature | History | Philosophy | Religion | And More!
Participate in the important questions of our time. The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings people together to explore challenges and opportunities that affect human flourishing through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
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