The Arts and Culture Job Track will focus on the skills needed by and the challenges facing arts and culture staff leaders and support staff. This year, we are working to provide an opportunity for new and seasoned professionals to learn from experts in the field, share best practices, so they return to their JCCs invigorated with new strategies to maximize community outreach and impact. The Arts and Culture track will include interactive workshops, discussions, and invited speakers, along with a healthy dose of networking to help build the connective tissue of the arts and culture department at your JCC.
Arts & Culture Job Track Leader: Randy Ellen Lutterman, Vice President for Arts and Culture
Provides support and leadership, communicating with JCCs across the continent, about arts and culture programming, advising on content, growth of programs, and funding opportunities. This includes working directly with JCCs to maximize and share resources, trends and programming ideas, as well as creating signature programming and support materials for JCCs designed to further strategic and program development.
Session 1: Arts And Culture Round Table Share: Who are we, what do we do, and why does it matter?
Speakers: Randy Ellen Lutterman, Vice President, Arts and Culture/Director JCC Maccabi ArtsFest, JCC Association and Shira Lupiansky-Hasson, Boarding Pass Associate, Israel Seminars, JCC Israel Center
Description: Working together, arts and culture track participants will learn about our extended cultural communities, and how we are currently engaging. We’ll share what we do, how we do it, and how we might do it better, more richly and in more saturated ways. We will set the stage for our time together, so we will leave here with new ideas, new friends, new collaborators and partners, and new skills—as well as some new ways of thinking about what we do and how we can effect change in our communities.
Sessions 2 & 3 below will be linked together by our dynamic and inspiring facilitator Assael Romanelli. Please Note: Sessions 2 & 3 are a combined session, and latecomers cannot be accommodated.
Session 2 Title: Stuck and Un-Stuck, Part 1: Bringing Greater Impact to Our Most Important Professional and Personal Relationships
Speaker: Dr. Assael Romanelli, Director of The Potential State for the Helping Professions, Jerusalem, Israel
Description: Arts and culture is perhaps the most collaborative area of programming and outreach. We will clarify what it means to collaborate with diverse groups of people who may have different expectations and different levels of skill, but who all make a difference in your ability to work a at the highest level in delivering cultural engagement experiences to your JCC communities.
Session 3 Title: Stuck and Un-Stuck, Part 2: Bringing Greater Impact to Our Most Important Professional and Personal Relationships
Speaker: Dr. Assael Romanelli, Director of The Potential State for the Helping Professions, Jerusalem, Israel
Description: Using a case study, and secrets from the neuro-linguistic programming and theater worlds, our artists presenters and partners will help us work through our most complex challenges with our staff, lay people and volunteers.
Session 4 Title: JResponse and Our Role As Community Engagers and Supporters
Speaker: Marilyn Levitch Hassid, 35 year veteran JCC Arts and Engagement Professional
Description: Joining us will be Marilyn Levitch Hassid, a 35-year veteran JCC arts and engagement professional. Bringing her experience in Houston through two community floods, Marilyn will be with us as we spend some time learning about preparing for disaster and discussing both preparation and responses for your department and ways in which your department might be able to help another JCC if it were faced with a disaster. We will also work with Marilyn on a sharing of community arts, culture and engagement success stories and strategies that go beyond the walls of the JCC.
Session 5 Title: Strengthening the Work: Personal and Professional Takeaways
Speakers: Marilyn Levitch Hassid and Lenore Naxon with Randy Ellen Lutterman
Description: Joining Marilyn Levitch Hassid and Randy Lutterman will be Lenore Naxon, arts consultant and former JCC arts and culture professional. We will discuss how participation in Jewish cultural events is an exercise in Jewish identity. We will also introduce a Dilemma Protocol to address some of our most challenging questions, and invite you to take this methodology back to your JCCs. And we will review the remaining topics gathered throughout the conference. What has enriched you personally and strengthened you professionally? We will help you identify ways to extend your conference experience.