2017 Houston Arts Partners Conference: Better Together: Building Community through the Arts POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE HARVEY/NEW DATES ANNOUNCED!

Houston Arts Partners presents the 2017 Houston Arts Partners Conference: Better Together: Building Community through the Arts.

Due to the impact of Hurricane Harvey, the Houston Arts Partners Conference and the Arts All Around Festival was rescheduled for NOVEMBER 4th, 2017, 9am – 1pm.

This will allow everyone to focus on the hands-on help for families, friends, and our city that is urgently required in Harvey’s aftermath.

If you have any questions, please contact Troy Scheid, HAP Conference Coordinator, at 713-552-9345 or at [email protected].

All children benefit from access to the arts – no matter their background, income level, neighborhood, or learning need.

The HAP Conference puts the tools of arts integration into the hands of all educators. It showcases innovative collaborations between teaching artists, arts organizations, classroom teachers, and district leaders.

At the 2017 HAP Conference, “Better Together: Building Community through the Arts,” these interdisciplinary partnerships unite academic subjects with fine arts disciplines, promote cultural dialogue, create a welcoming school climate, support differentiated instruction, and develop a practice of empathy through engaging in the arts.

At the HAP Conference, all educators have the opportunity to learn about (and help shape) the advocacy tools and arts integration strategies to bring arts access to all children in our region.

EMANUELEE “OUTSPOKEN” BEAN – HAP Keynote Speaker

Performance poet Outspoken Bean was one of only three artists selected for the City of Houston’s Resident Artist Program as part of Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Complete Communities initiative in 2017, the first year of the program.

His focus is serving communities in creating work to share with the public, showcasing diverse cultures and voices, and highlighting the vital role of the Arts – not only in empowering individuals, but also in team-building and community development.

A native Texan, Bean was ranked 9th in the world in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2012 and appeared at TEDxHouston in 2013. Bean coaches the Writers in the Schools youth poetry program, Meta-Four Houston, and he recently co-authored a peer-reviewed article on performance poetry in Children at Risk’s Journal of Applied Research on Children.

Co-Chairs

Chris Hutchison, Brazosport Independent School District
Jonathan Gonzalez, Main Street Theater
Judy Frow and Andrés González, Mercury

Location
Gregory-Lincoln Education Center
1101 Taft St,
Houston, TX 77019

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/outspokenbean