20th Annual Envisioning California Conference

California Imagined: The Arts of the Golden State

Envisioning California Conference
Thursday, September 18 - Friday, September 19, 2008
Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California

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Speakers and panels will include:

• Keynote Address - A Place Called California: The Arts and California's Identity
  Richard Rodriguez, Author and editor at Pacific News Service
  


• Lunch Plenary - The State of the Arts
  Muriel Johnson, Director, California Arts Council
  Ralph Lewin, Executive Director, California Council for the Humanities
  Laurie Schell, Executive Director, California Alliance for Arts Education
  

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• California in Global Imagination: Film as Art and Art as Film



• California Built: Architectural Styles & Influence of the Golden State



• Art in a Deficit Era



• The Written Word: California's 500 year Perspective



• Teatro California: The Legacy of Latino/ Chicano Playwrights, Theatres & Performance Groups



• Walls2Canvas: Youth Street Art and the MOSAIC Program



• Art as a Learning Engine: Creative Ideas for Fostering Art in the Schools



• Beyond the Paintbrush (but still holding it.)



• Arts and Social Policy: Tools to Strengthen California Communities



• California Beat: Music of the Golden State



• A Place Called California: Arts & California Identity

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  For more information call the Center for California Studies (916) 278-6906