Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris announced at a Crain's "Future of New York" conference on Wednesday a series of five new initiatives to support new exhibition and performance space in New York City. Details forthcoming, but Crain's wrote up the announcement on its website yesterday.
A special half day conference -- "New York's Performing Arts at a Crossroads" -- will be presented by Crain’s New York Business and The Columbia University School of the Arts.
The financial crisis and severe economic downturn in New York have presented unprecedented challenges for the city’s performing arts organizations, with declines in both attendance and fundraising. This conference, part of the Crain’s Future of New York City series, examines what is happening, how arts organizations are coping with the economic squeeze and how they are planning to survive and thrive in the future.
The event will begin with a keynote address by Patricia Harris, first deputy mayor of the city and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s closest aide. This will be followed by three breakout sessions looking at how the above-mentioned issues affect the perspective of the city’s largest and most prominent arts groups, the theater sector and small arts groups. The audience will then reassemble for a final session on the outlook for fundraising with a panel.
When: September 30, 8:30 AM - 12:45 PM (tentative)
Where: Columbia University campus centered on Miller Hall, Broadway and 116th
Cost: $59 for reserved auditorium seating, $39 unreserved seating
Information, including full roster of scheduled speakers, or tickets: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/section/future_of_new_york_city