You’re invited to the forum
featuring priya sircar!
January 22, 2025 at Community Matters Cafe
Calling all creators and supporters of the arts in Charlotte. It's time for a conversation.
Just how creative is Charlotte? Do we have the right activities and plan in place to support the creative ecosystem of the city? Is there something in the culture holding us back? How might we support new realities for arts and culture in Charlotte?
Priya Sircar has surprising answers.
After the release of a groundbreaking Charlotte Arts + Culture Plan, the city has reverted to familiar methods, philosophies, and funding structures for the arts, even when many artists and supporters maintain those approaches no longer serve the growth and sustainability of the arts—or never did.
Priya is the 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..
She 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.
The Forum will explore the dynamics of arts and cultural activity, policy, funding and practice, and the choices we have made and will make that will shape the future of the region.
Join us for a night of connection and conversation - a night for people who love Charlotte and all of what it can be.
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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