New Brunswick Cultural Center to host reception for New Brunswick artists and creative sector workers

The New Brunswick Cultural Center, which is working with Arts Build Communities to develop a new set of creative place making strategies in the city of New Brunswick (NJ), is hosting Arts Reception 2012 for artists and creative sector workers who live or work in the city.  The event will be May 30, 2012, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick.

Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick. 

Painters, sculptors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, designers and other artists who live or work in the city are welcome to attend.  Also invited are people who work in creative sector organizations, such as galleries, theaters, art schools or arts councils in New Brunswick, or New Brunswick residents who work in creative sector organizations outside the city.

This is the first of what is expected to be an annual.  gathering of creative people in New Brunswick.  Participants will  also learn about the upcoming launch of Arts New Brunswick, a community-guided process to create a new vision and plan for arts development in New Brunswick.  The Arts New Brunswick initiative is being led by a partnership of the New Brunswick Cultural Center and Arts Build Communities of Rutgers University.

New Brunswick Cultural Center will also host a community meeting on July 11, which will be open to all people who live or work in New Brunswick. Ben Cameron,  Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Foundaiton,  will give a keynote address that  highlights the importance of the arts in the lives of individuals and communities.

To RSVP for the May 30^th reception, please send an email by Thursday, May 24 to newbrunswickarts@gmail.com

Photo credit: http://nb.rutgers.edu/student-experience/beyond-campus

 Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP

Director, Arts Build Communities