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Addressing Learning Loss With Your Arts Curriculum

Addressing Learning Loss With Your Arts Curriculum Students everywhere have struggled to keep up with learning during COVID. In this landscape, embodied learning through the arts is a powerful tool to help students catch up. More than ever, administrators and grantors are considering supplemental programming and partnerships based on their ability to align with core academic standards. In this training, we will walk through how to academically align your arts curriculum using Common Core standards. Through guided exercises, collaboration, and modeling, you’ll leave this training with the ability to more fully integrate artistic and …

Development On Draft

Development On Draft Join your fellow development staff from Chicago area performing arts companies for a drink and industry conversation. These informal gatherings encourage networking and resource-sharing between performing arts development professionals from organizations both large and small. This is a great opportunity to meet new development colleagues and to discuss topics such as: What types of support do you need from your industry peers? What are challenges you are facing, both pre and post-pandemic? What are others in the industry hearing about changes at foundations and new sources of funding? What …

Useful Frameworks for Strategic Planning

Useful Frameworks for Strategic Planning The aim of this seminar is to introduce organizational leaders and department heads in the Chicago Theatre community to a few easy to construct and useful strategic frameworks for building and scaling successful organizations. These tools will help organizations find clarity related to their strategic priorities. The seminar will introduce the “Business Canvas Model” and an impact measurement framework called the “Balance Scorecard.” We will explore the fundamentals of these frameworks and the how to and the benefits of these models using past examples. The goal of …

Marketing & Microbrews

Marketing & Microbrews Join marketing staff from Chicago area performing arts companies for a drink and industry conversation. These informal gatherings encourage networking and resource-sharing between performing arts marketing professionals from organizations both large and small. This is a great opportunity to meet new marketing colleagues, and to discuss topics such as sales strategies, advertising plans, websites, social media trends, and more! Kick off this upcoming season with pizza and a first round on us on the outdoor patio at Roots Handmade Pizza’s in the South Loop. The restaurant is located in …

Non-Profit Tax Seminar

Non-Profit Tax Seminar Patrick Burke is a partner with Friedman & Huey with over 30 years of experience in the field. Pat specializes in individual taxation while also administering his firm’s tax-exempt organization practice, financial statement practice, peer review program, and firm-wide quality control efforts. Pat is a member of the AICPA, IL CPA Society, and he has been a guest lecturer at universities and numerous non-profits. Patrick will cover many helpful topics for non-profit administrators in his presentation, including: 990’s: Tips for filing and pitfalls to avoid How to keep your …

Deb’s Farewell Celebration

Deb’s Farewell Celebration Join us to toast Deb Clapp’s 14 years with the League of Chicago Theatres and wish her well in her next adventures! Light appetizers and refreshments will be served.

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement: Why It Is, What It Is, and What It Is Not

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement: Why It Is, What It Is, and What It Is Not Participants will explore the whys of Land Acknowledgements and how they can sometimes be associated with performative allyship. Through guided exercises, participants will explore their relationship to Indigenous lands and reflect on their participation in the settler state. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the history of Land Acknowledgments and how they can, if created thoughtfully, be utilized to build reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities. RSVP below and you will receive a zoom link for the meeting.