# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Accelerate Rural Indiana: Creative Communities Workshop
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: 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
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/shelbyville/accelerate-rural-indiana-creative-communities-workshop/200029594472046
- **Event Categories**: workshops, kids, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 25

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://go.iu.edu/8wPT?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=shelbyville-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Shelbyville
- **state**: IN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Wortman Family Civic Theatre, 1416 Miller Ave, Shelbyville, IN 46176
- **lat**: 39.51096
- **long**: -85.79368
- **full address**: Wortman Family Civic Theatre, 1416 Miller Ave, Shelbyville, IN 46176, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: IU Center for Rural Engagement (https://allevents.in/org/iu-center-for-rural-engagement/14881906)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wortman Family Civic Theatre, 1416 Miller Ave, Shelbyville, IN 46176, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** IU Center for Rural Engagement
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, kids, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Accelerate Rural Indiana: Creative Communities Workshop ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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