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APAP JazzConnect Session: Platforms that Move Jazz Forward @ Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers: January 8

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The Association of Performing Arts Presenters features jazz—its leaders, masters and music—at annual performing arts industry conference in New York City.

Topic
Platforms that Move Jazz Forward

Where
Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
Ballroom East, 3rd floor
New York, NY
212-581-1000

When
Sun, January 8, 2012
3-4:30 PM

Admission
Free

About the event

Looking for platforms and tools to help define, connect and provide structure? Want to define the workforce and audiences? Want community? Let Marty Ashby, Executive Producer of MCG Jazz and Administrator for the Jazz Commons, Michael Ricci, Founder and Publisher of AllAboutJazz.com and Jean Cook, Director of Programs for the Future of Music Coalition show you some tools to help put those pieces in place. The Jazz Commons, a database that pulls together presenter, promoter, artist and audience information in one-stop learning center for jazz, and Money for Musicians, a multi-method research project to assess how musicians' revenue streams are changing in this new music landscape, are examples of what the arts community, both within and outside Jazz, can do when sharing resources.

About the Association of Performing Arts Presenters

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters, based in Washington, D.C., is the national service and advocacy organization dedicated to developing and supporting a robust performing arts presenting field and the professionals who work within it. Our 1,400 national and international members represent leading performing arts centers, municipal and university performance facilities, nonprofit performing arts centers, culturally specific organizations, foreign governments, as well as artist agencies, managers, touring companies, and national consulting practices that serve the field, and a growing roster of self-presenting artists. As a leader in the field, APAP works to effect change through advocacy, professional development, resource sharing and civic engagement. APAP is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization governed by a volunteer board of directors and led by President & CEO Mario Garcia Durham. In addition to presenting the annual APAP|NYC conference—the world's leading forum and marketplace for the performing arts (January 6-10, 2012)—APAP continues to be the industry's leading resource, knowledge and networking destination for the advancement of performing arts presenting.

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