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? What’s holding us back and how might we move forward?
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. This conversation will address where we've been and what we might do to support new realities for arts and culture in Charlotte.
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.
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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