Building Community Through Arts & Heritage Speaker Series

Our First Conversation February 24th and 25th

The Kingston Arts Council is proud to present the 4th annual Building Community Through Arts & Heritage speaker series. This event kicks off the When Art Meets Business program of conversations and is an opportunity to increase awareness of arts and culture in Kingston while learning new strategies for audience development and public participation in the arts.    

Tuesday February 24th at 7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm

Musagetes is an arts organization that believes in the transformative potential of the arts.  Musagetes’ team, Shawn Van Sluys and Alissa Firth-Eagland will discuss co-created arts initiatives that connect artists and local communities to the world around them.

Musical Performance by Kyoko Ogoda

Musagetes is an international organization that makes the arts more central and meaningful in people’s lives, in our communities, and in our societies. We are interested in how people find meaning in art, renewing and reinventing their worlds through a widespread embracing of the arts. We design and implement programs with artists and communities, often in the public sphere. We’re currently working in Guelph, Canada; Lecce, Italy; and Rijeka, Croatia. Musagetes’ multi-year, city-based programs are experiments into the transformative power of the arts.
 

Wednesday February 25th at 7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm

Creative collaborator, film artist and president of the historic Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Christina Zeidler will share her community based approach for creating arts hubs and how they can provide instant access to local arts scenes.
 
Musical Performance and Film Screenings by Danielle Lennon’s String Theory 

Presentation of the Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development at 7pm 
Christina Zeidler, has been the developer and president of the historic GLADSTONE HOTEL in Toronto since 2003, focusing on the renovation and revitalization of the building through a community based approach. She is the creator of the “Artist Designed Room Project” using local artist/designers to implement individually designed hotel rooms, even creating a room herself entitled “snapshot”. With 37 unique artist designed hotel rooms, a multi-use second floor, a restaurant and two bars, The Gladstone Hotel is more than just a hotel, it is a local hub for the arts which fosters the local community while providing instant access to the arts scene for those traveling to Toronto.
Malting Tower Room, 370 King St. West, Kingston
 
Free Admission!
To register for this event please email us at [email protected]. Please include the number in your party and the day you wish to attend!