[Durham INC] FYI: Register Today! May 16th Creative Entrepreneur Expo - for Creative Businesses & Service Provider Vendors

Mon May 13 22:57:48 EDT 2013

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Subject: Register Today! May 16th Creative Entrepreneur Expo - for Creative Businesses & Service Provider Vendors
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CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR EXPO

Presented by the 
Durham Arts Council 
City of Durham Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Durham Cultural Advisory Board 
Durham Small Business Advisory Council
Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau

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Aspiring and Developing Creative Business People -- Visual & Performing Artists, Designers, Filmmakers, Musicians, Writers, Creative Product Retailers, and More! Don't Miss this opportunity to gain new entrepreneurial insights, hone your business skills, connect with business resources and breathe in inspiration for your creative enterprise! 

THURSDAY, MAY 16TH

8:00 am - 12:30 pm
at the Durham Arts Council
120 Morris Street
Durham, NC 27701

Join us for a fantastic morning of Creative Economy and Entrepreneurship learning, discussion and networking featuring keynote presentations, the Creative Vitality Index, business development workshops and a resource expo filled with invaluable resources to help you launch and grow your creative business. 

Tickets: $25 Includes Breakfast, All Presentations, Workshops, Handouts, Business Resources, Free Parking, plus Lunch Discount at Downtown Partner Restaurants

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

SCHEDULE

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast, Networking

8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The Importance of the Creative Economy and Creative Entrepreneurs in Durham, NC
* Welcome from Event Hosts - Sherry DeVries, DAC Executive Director and Renee Leverty, Chair, Cultural Advisory Board
* Greetings from Mayor William V. "Bill" Bell
* Creative Impact in Our State - NC Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz
* Creative Vitality Index ™ Announcement - the latest data for Durham!
* Keynote: Carl Nordgren, Author, Creative Entrepreneur "Guru", & Duke University Professor
with Christopher Gergen, Founder of Bull City Forward
* Introduction of Creative Business Resource Expo & Workshops - Thomas Leathers, City of Durham OEWD, Coordinator for Small Business Advisory Council

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 pm
Creative Business Resource Expo
Over 30 local business resources and companies to help you build your creative enterprise. Resource tables and experts located on main and 2nd floor of Durham Arts Council

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 
5 Outstanding Creative Business Workshops to Help You 
Launch, Develop or Expand Your Creative Business
Attend 2 workshops of your choice

12:30 
Lunch On Your Own and Continue the Networking
Discount coupon for participating downtown restaurants will be provided 

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

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								CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS & PARKING

												REGISTER TODAY! 
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU
at the Durham Arts Council on May 16th

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Durham Arts Council
120 Morris Street
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 560-2787

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												Durham - Where Great Things Happen!

					8:00 AM - 8:45 AM      REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST & NETWORKING 

												THANK YOU TO OUR BREAKFAST SPONSOR! 
Continental Breakfast catered and sponsored by
The Radisson at Research Triangle Park

					8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
The Importance of the Creative Economy and Creative Entrepreneurs in Durham, NC 

												Our Mayor, the Honorable William V. "Bill" Bell knows how important creative entrepreneurs and the arts are for Durham. He will be at the Expo to bring greetings and share how important you are to our economy!

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												Newly appointed NC Secretary of Cultural Resources, Susan Kluttz will share with us how important the creative economy is across the state and her new charge to lead us forward with strong collaborations in the arts, creative entrepreneurship, creative place-making, commerce, transportation and tourism.

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Carl Nordgren,author, successful creative entrepreneur, Duke adjunct professor and "Creative Populist" will team up with Christopher Gergen,CEO of Forward Impact, successful creative entrepreneur, and founder of Bull City Forward, to provide an inspirational keynote presentation about their passionate belief in the power of creativity and entrepreneurship to fuel our future, along with how to channel the inspiration into successful business models. 

Nordgren is author of the book Welcome to the Creative Populist Revolution,and has been a serial entrepreneur, helping found two pioneer cellular telephone companies, two innovative marketing services firms, a semiconductor company, a software venture, a sport magazine publisher, and a new business incubator. He worked in four of the Creative Industries, and for ten years has been teaching courses in Creative Entrepreneurship at Duke University. Chris Gergen is co-author of the nationally acclaimed book Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives and co-authors a bi-weekly column on social innovation for the Raleigh News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer. He is adjunct professor and fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at DukeUniversity’s Fuqua School of Business. Gergen was recently selected as a 2013 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. 

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												DURHAM CREATIVE VITALITY INDEX™ ANNOUNCEMENT

Sherry DeVries - Executive Director, Durham Arts Council
with data support from WESTAF and Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau

Find out the latest data on how Durham measures up statewide and nationally as a top-ranked creative community and how YOU are part of the equation! The Creative Vitality Index™, or the CVI, uses streams of occupational and revenue data from both the for-profit and non-profit sectors to measure the annual changes in the economic health of various segments of arts-related creative economy. Our CVI was good three years ago in our first study -- how do we stack up now?

A lively music scene, crowded coffee shops and restaurants, well-designed buildings, thriving art galleries, successful design firms, exciting museums and theatres, opportunities for arts participation - these are elements we find in the communities that drive the new economy. In places like Boston, Seattle, Austin and Durham, this kind of energetic, open atmosphere attracts good companies and skilled workers interested in a high quality of life - which in turn leads to a self-sustaining cycle of economic and cultural vitality.
The Creative Vitality Index™ was conceived as a tool that states, counties, cities and towns can use to assess and enhance their creative edge. Created by WESTAF.

					10:30 AM - 12:30 PM 

CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR WORKSHOPS

Creative Entrepreneur Workshops
"Develop Your Biz and Create The Buzz!"
Select Workshops of Your Choice

10:30 AM
Workshop 1 - Business Plan Development for Aspiring or Start Up Creative Businesses & Entrepreneurs: This workshop will help attendees evaluate their creative capital and develop their business plan for a successful entrepreneurial venture. 
Presenter: Fred Hathaway, EntreDot

Workshop 2 - Strategic Plan Development for Existing or Expanding Businesses & Entrepreneurs: This workshop takes you to the next level in business planning and development. How to grow the enterprise and sustaining momentum as you expand. 
Presenter: LaShon Harley, Durham Tech Small Business Center 

Workshop 3 - Copyright, Contracts & Intellectual Property
What to think about when thinking about copyright & arts entrepreneurship.
The session will cover the basics of copyright law. Topics addressed include: What is protected by copyright? When can you use other people's work? How can you protect your own work? What is "fair use?" What is a derivative work? What is "creative commons?" Dan is a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of arts law issues.
Presenter: Daniel Ellison, Attorney

11:30 AM
Workshop 4 -Creating The Buzz: Developing Your Marketing Strategy for the Creative Sector
Tivi Jones Media is a marketing and media agency with a penchant for the extraordinary. "We believe…We can make the world a more creative, conscious and happy place through passionate marketing, purposeful media and contagious moxie." 
Presenter: Tivi Jones, Tivi Jones Media - "Marketing, Media, Moxie"

Workshop 5 - Finding & Growing the Target Audience for Your Creative Enterprise: Learn how to identify your business's target market so that you can best utilize and focus your marketing resources to build a customer base. 
Presenter: Mary Speight, NCCU Small Business, Technology and Development Center 

CLICK HERE FOR EVENT TICKETS

Tickets: $25 Includes Breakfast, All Presentations, Workshops, Handouts, Business Resources, Free Parking, plus Lunch Discount at Downtown Partner Restaurants!

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

								Durham Arts Council
120 Morris Street

												CREATIVE BUSINESS RESOURCE EXPO

More than 30 vendors, businesses, and business education programs will be present in the Creative Business Expo to talk with you and connect you with resources to help launch, grow and develop a successful creative business. 

Resource tables and representatives will be located on the main and second floors of the Durham Arts Council. 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AS AN EXPO VENDOR - $50 Vendor Fee 
Expo vendors receive one booth space, table, chair, listing in resource guide, 1 breakfast ticket, 1 parking pass, admission to programs. (Additional company representatives may attend for $25 each.)

					12:30 PM - Network & Lunch in Downtown Durham! WITH SPECIAL DISCOUNT COUPON TO PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS. 

												Closing and Off to Lunch for More Networking!
12:30 PM 
Location: Participating Restaurant of Choice - Discount Coupon to Be Provided at Event

CLICK HERE FOR CREATIVE EXPO EVENT TICKETS

Tickets: $25     Includes Breakfast, All Presentations, Workshops, Handouts, Business Resources, Free Parking, plus Lunch Discount at Downtown Partner Restaurants! 

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												The Durham Arts Council's Business Committee for the Arts program is a partnership of the DAC, Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau, Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, Duke University, and the City of Durham Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and is an affiliate of the national BCA program.  Each year programs are presented in Durham to highlight the important role of the arts and the creative economy, and to encourage arts and business partnerships. 

The mission of the Business Committee for the Arts (BCA) is to ensure that the arts flourish in America by encouraging, inspiring, and stimulating businesses to support the arts in the workplace, in education, and in the community. The Business Committee for the Arts, founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller, provides businesses of all sizes with the services and resources necessary to develop and advance partnerships with the arts that benefit business, the arts, and the community.

VENDORS WELCOME FOR CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR EXPO

												IF YOU ARE A LOCAL BUSINESS THAT CAN PROVIDE BUSINESS RESOURCES AND SERVICES TO THE CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR SECTOR, YOU CAN REGISTER TO BE AN EXPO VENDOR!

Financial Services, Design, Markteting Services, Accounting, and more.......

$50 Registration fee for Vendors includes:

* 1 Expo Booth/table Space, table, chair 
* Listing in the vendor resource directory - to be distributed to all attending the Expo
* 1 Expo Event Admission - includes 1 breakfast ticket & printed materials
* Additional company representatives may attend for $25 each
* Free parking pass

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AS A VENDOR

					THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!

Many thanks to the Event Sponsors & Partners!

Durham Arts Council

Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau

Durham Cultural Advisory Board 
Event Planning Committee: Peter Coyle, Sherry DeVries, Renee Leverty,
Thomas Leathers, Marc Lee, Cynthia Mebane-Watts 

City of Durham
Office of Economic & Workforce Development

Durham Small Business Advisory Council 

Kontek

North Carolina Arts Council

North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources 

Radisson at Research Triangle Park
Ron Hunter, General Manager 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 
Durham Arts Council
(919) 560-2787
www.durhamarts.org
CLICK HERE FOR EVENT TICKETS

			REGISTER TODAY! WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.

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