Accelerate Rural Indiana: Creative Communities Workshop

PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND: https://go.iu.edu/8wPT

Explore how arts and culture can strengthen community development across the ARI region and beyond.

Engage in interactive mini-sessions with arts administration experts, connect with local partners, and build practical creative capacity.

The ARI region encompasses all of Shelbyville, Greensburg, Rushville and Batesville, in addition to Shelby, Rush, and Decatur counties.

Agenda
• 5:30 p.m. Networking and refreshments
• 6:00 p.m. Opening remarks, Kim Carballo and Debbi Ponella
• 6:30 p.m. Creative Convergence workshop, Anne Johansson, Indiana Arts Commission
• 7:00 p.m. Crowdgranting and CreatINg Places workshop, Bridget Anderson, Patronicity
• 7:30 p.m. Reimagining Opera for Kids presentation and performance
• 8:00 p.m. Wrap up

You may also like the following events from IU Center for Rural Engagement:

• This Thursday, 26th February, 06:30 pm, Sustaining Hoosier Communities: Brown County Community Meeting in Nashville
• This April, 18th April, 11:00 am, Uncovering American Sculptor Ira A. Correll in Odon, IN: A Community Conversation in Odon
• This May, 19th May, 08:00 am, 2026 IU Rural Conference in French Lick

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