CA Arts & Culture Summit - “Highlights Show Part 1”

"I have been used, abused and silenced within the nonprofit industrial complex... I'm not gonna take it anymore... I'm gonna get mine and my community's gonna get there's this year" - Nikko Kimzin, Kimzin Creative

In Part One of season two of Where Art Meets Impact highlight episode. This episode features inspiring voices from the 2024 California Arts and Culture Summit, which highlights, how artists and advocates tackle three major issues: legitimizing creative careers as real work, integrating arts into health systems, and empowering economic justice through entrepreneurship and guaranteed income. Learn how intentional funding, narrative shifts, and artist-led collaborations are creating systemic change. 

Guests Include: 

+ Julie Baker: CEO of California for the Arts

+ Nataki Garrett: Co-artistic Director of One Nation, One Project

+ Chris Appleton: Founder and CEO of Arts Pharmacy

+ Dr. Indre Viskontas: Cognitive Neuroscientist, Scientist, Communicator, Opera Singer and Stage Director

+ Dr. Tasha Golden: Director of Research for the International Arts Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

+ Tamaira “Miss Tee” Sandifer-CEO & Founder, Studio T Arts & Entertainment

+ Nikko Kimzin: Founder, Kimzin Creative, an LLC

+ Jamie Hand: Director of Strategic Impact and Narrative Change at Creatives Rebuild New York

+ Nurit Siegal Smith: Executive Director, Music Forward Foundation

+ Marcus Mitchell: Public Administrator, the City of West Hollywood's Arts

+ Eric Estrada, Co-Host, Assoc Producer, Voices of the Community

+ Eduardo Robles: Summit Roaming Reporter, California for the Arts and Voices of the Community

+ George Koster: Creator, Host, Producer, Voices of the Community

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Delve deeper into Voices of the Community Series on Arts & Culture, Making the Invisible-Visible, Covid-19's impact on nonprofits, small businesses and local government, City of Stockton's rise from the ashes of bankruptcy and our archives: You can explore episodes, speakers, organizations, and resources through each series web page. Watch and learn from all five series now!