State of Culture Report Virtual Public Meeting

The City of Charlotte and Lord Cultural Resources invites the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community to join us in a virtual event to present findings from the State of Culture Report. The report is a 360-degree review of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area’s current cultural environment that includes:

• Analyses of existing data and plans pertaining to the area’s arts and culture sector.
• A cultural asset inventory and map.
• An in-depth assessment of how arts and culture is funded in the area, including grants, fees for service and building maintenance, and of funding strengths and challenges from the perspectives of artists, organizations and funders.
• An examination of arts funding and governance in comparable communities across the nation.
• A robust, three-month, areawide community engagement effort.

There are three main goals of this two-hour long virtual public meeting

• Share State of Culture Report findings.
• Gain feedback from public on emerging insights.
• Begin to identify public priorities for the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan.

All registered participants will be divided into breakout rooms at a specific point in the session to dive further into one specific insight presented in the State of Culture Report.

In the breakout room session we will be discussing four main questions

1. Are these these insights clear? What do they mean to you?
2. How do you envision how we can achieve these priorities in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area?
3. Who should be involved in activating these emerging insights? Which insights could YOU help with?

We look forward to sharing the findings with the entirety of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community. Please find the report here