Thursday Feb 21, 2019
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Check-in & lunch: 11:30am
Program: 12:00pm - 1:00p
21c Museum Hotel- Main Gallery
200 NE A St, Bentonville, AR 72712
Member ticket $30
Non-Member ticket $40
Brand Sponsor ticket (Member only) $75
Member reserved corporate table of eight $275
Non-Member reserved corporate table of eight $350
Sierra Polk
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34 new people are moving to NWA each day, with Bentonville being one of the fastest growing cities. Investing in quality of life is vital to the growth of our community, there is no shortage of things to do in northwest Arkansas; where nature meets art, meets music, meets food, meets education; so on. These intersections are what make the region so unique.
During this lunchtime discussion, you will hear from business representatives about the growth of Bentonville's entertainment scene and how it impacts your business. We are honored to have representatives from House of Songs, the Museum of Native American History, The Momentary, Trike Theater and Walton Arts Center join us for this panel style event to discuss new & upcoming events, projects, arts, culture and quality of life in NWA. There will be a Q&A session following the panel discussion.
Registration is required. If you have any questions or are interested in sponsoring this informative and exciting lunch, please contact Sierra Polk at the Chamber. 479-273-2841 or spolk@greaterbentonville.com.
Guest Panelist Website Links:
The Museum of Native American History: https://www.monah.us/
Guest Moderator: Charlotte Buchanan-Yale, MONAH Director
Trike Theater: https://www.triketheatre.org/
Guest Speaker - Executive Director - Paul Savas
Paul Savas joined Tricycle Theatre for Youth in September 2017. Savas has been a professional theatre artist and administrator for 20+ years and has worked as an actor (proud member of Actors? Equity Association), director (former member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers), fight choreographer, executive director, and artistic director. He?s even been employed to play the didgeridoo. His work as Executive and Artistic Director of The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville South Carolina was recognized with the Metropolitan Arts Council?s Spirit of Collaboration Award in 2010 and as one of Greenville Business Magazine?s Upstate?s 50 Most Influential People of 2012.
He is proud to now call Northwest Arkansas his home and is the proud father of little Nancy Annalynn Capps Savas. He has very little time for anything other than taking care of Nancy and running Trike! And wouldn?t have it any other way.
The Momentary: https://themomentary.org/
Pia Agrawal is the Curator of Performing Arts at The Momentary, an adaptive reuse project that will transform a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant south of Crystal Bridges into a multidisciplinary space for visual, culinary, and performing arts and an artist-in-residency program. From 2014-18, Pia was the Program Director at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts where she produced the Center?s public programming including the annual Mitchell Artist Lecture and CounterCurrent festival. During her time at the Mitchell Center, Pia worked with artists such as Tania Bruguera, Okwui Okpokwasili, Kevin Beasley, and Jason Moran.
Prior to her work at the Mitchell Center, Pia served as the Managing Director of the Rude Mechs (Austin, TX) and the Programming Director of FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA). She is a graduate of Haverford College with a BA in sociology.
Walton Arts Center - waltonartscenter.org
President & CEO - Peter Lane
Peter joined Walton Arts Center in May 2009. Since then the organization has tripled in size and has grown to become Arkansas? premier arts presenter. More than 340,000 people attend events at Walton Arts Center venues annually, and the organization?s arts education programs reach 45,000 students, teachers and citizens each year. Under Peter?s leadership, Walton Arts Center has built and opened the state?s largest outdoor entertainment venue, the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, one of Pollstar?s 2017 Top 60 best-selling amphitheaters in the country
Peter came to Northwest Arkansas from previous leadership positions with the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. He serves on the board of the Northwest Arkansas Council, is a classically trained bassist who enjoys sailing and biking.
House of Songs: https://thehouseofsongs.org/
Guest Speaker: Troy Cambell
Inspired by his experiences collaborating with Danish singer-songwriter Poul Krebs, Troy Campbell founded The House of Songs in 2009 as a one-year project to bring Danish artists to Austin. In 2016, Campbell's efforts earned him the Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award. He has also won an Emmy, a Telly and several Pollie awards, plus multiple film festival awards, for his live-action and animated productions as co-owner of Collection Agency Films.
Campbell started out as a musician. An album by his 1990s band, Loose Diamonds, made the New York Times' annual top 10 list; a track from his last release, `Long in the Sun,` was a USA Today top-10 pick. In Denmark, his recordings with Krebs achieved platinum- and gold-disc status.
Musical Selection: Willi Carlisle is, according to The Washington Post, "powerful...both down-home and brainy."
With years of collecting folklore, playing or calling square dances, and working in the avant-garde, Willi Carlisle Goehring is a multi-faceted writer, performer, and instrumentalist. Carlisle's musical stories hoot, stomp, and saunter through joys and troubles uniquely southern and timelessly true. Equally comfortable on banjo, fiddle, and guitar, Carlisle has earned accolades for his versatility with performances at the Ozark Folk Center, the Fayetteville Roots Festival, Thacker Mountain Radio, and Fringe Festivals across the country, where he has been lauded with awards like "Best Show" (Orlando Fringe) and the "Meryl Streep Acting Award" (Portfringe).
Carlisle Goehring's debut EP "Too Nice to Mean Much" is available now!