APRIL IS ARTS, CULTURE & Creativity Month IN CALIFORNIA

In 2019, Californians for the Arts (CFTA) successfully campaigned for the state to recognize and celebrate the arts by declaring April as Arts, Culture & Creativity Month (ACCM) through a concurrent resolution passed in the California Senate. In 2021, an boosted resolution was declared to recognize artists as second responders.

CFTA directs this annual month-long spotlight on the arts to raise visibility and sensation about the value of our sector, to empower arts advocates to have action, and to spur greater investments in our manufacture and workforce.

  • We celebrate and elevate our impacts through media campaigns and calls to action that increment our visibility and change the way that the arts are perceived.

  • We lift these impacts to the Capitol during Advocacy Week, where arts delegates meet with legislators to press for their back up.

  • We activate the state with training and toolkits that spur local deportment and increase the capacity for arts advocates to effect change.

  • We educate with messaging campaigns and related webinars that generate discourse and new strategic possibilities for positioning the arts, civilisation and creative workers as essential partners in helping California address challenges and encounter its promise.

ACCM 2022 | The Arts Work

This April 2022 - Join CFTA for Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month!

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This year'south theme, "The Arts Piece of work," will provide weekly opportunities to explore and establish how the arts piece of work to heal, to build community, to advance justice, to empower youth and to create jobs. Each week will feature theme-based messaging campaigns to create public awareness and webinars featuring console discussions with thought leaders and practitioners. New to ACCM 2022 is The Arts Work Showcase, which invites artists and organizations of all disciplines to submit their projects as examples of these themes to a gallery on our website. This new program intends to uplift artistic workers and honor their work with weekly drawings for a cash prize.

Start here and keep scrolling down! Download the ACCM logo above and add it to your website, letterhead, emails and social media during the month of April. Exist part of a motility and share your support for celebrating and recognizing the value and impact of arts, civilization and creativity in your community.

ACCM 2022 | The Arts Piece of work: Webinars + Programs

The Arts Work Webinar Serial takes a deeper dive into how artists, arts workers and civilisation bearers work to create vital social impacts and what the creative workforce needs to succeed and thrive in California. Each Friday at Apex in Apr, our 2022 webinars bring together a console of thought leaders and practitioners around the bear on themes to share their modify making work and to hash out new strategic possibilities and the policy changes that we should be thinking about.

ACCM 2022 | The Arts Work: Toolkits + Resources

Our goal is to activate the state and make information technology piece of cake and educational for you to participate in ACCM2022. Use the following FREE toolkits and resource to generate a social media campaign, get your local authorities to proclaim April as Arts, Culture & Inventiveness Month, learn how to conduct a visit with your legislator and leverage local media to support getting your customs talking well-nigh the value of the arts.

ACCM 2022 | The Arts Work: Showcase

New to ACCM 2022 is The Arts Piece of work: Showcase, which invites artists and organizations of all disciplines to submit their projects as examples of these themes to a gallery on our website. This new program intends to uplift creative workers and honor their work with weekly drawings for a cash prize. For more information on what you tin share in the online gallery and how to participate visit here.

ACCM 2022 | Take Action During Advancement Calendar week, April 25-29

Contact Your Representatives During Arts Advancement Week - CFTA Has All The Free Tools!

Help us heighten the visibility of the importance of funding for arts, civilization and creative workers by reaching out to your legislators and request for their support during Advocacy Week (April 25-29). We take all you need to hold a coming together, write a alphabetic character, send a postcard or make a phone call. All of these actions make a huge difference, especially during this critical fourth dimension of state budget negotiations.

Let's Activate the State!  Here is how:

  • Sign upward for Action Alerts - Sign up to receive letter templates, phone phone call scripts and social media mail service templates with content related to ACCM and be ready for future advancement actions

  • Host a Postcard Party - Become a postcard to print and send as well as a toolkit with talking points

  • Meet with Your Legislator - Get all you need to schedule and organize your meeting

  • Get Ready For Advocacy Calendar week Meeting | Wed. April 20th | 4 - v:00pmCostless on Zoom

  • If you have further questions, email Tracy at tracy@californiansforthearts.org


Go Ready For Advancement Week | FREE on Zoom
Wednesday April 20th | iv:00 - 5:00pm LINK TO Annals

Acquire Virtually the Issues & Budget Asks: A Conversation For Advocates Taking Activity During ACCM

Discuss the issues, acquire the budget asks and talking points and share tips & resource for constructive advancement to get set for Arts Advocacy Week (April 25-29). This Zoom meeting is meant to support anybody who is participating in legislative visits, calling legislators, writing messages or submitting op-eds in support of state arts policies. CFTA policy leaders will exist on hand to reply all questions and get everyone excited to create change.

ACCM 2022 | The Arts Work: Sponsor

Become a Sponsor & Amplify Arts, Culture & Creativity Month

ACCM Sponsors are our vital partners in elevating the visibility and touch of ACCM, developing and activating arts advocates, and educating the public and elected officials on the value that arts, civilization and artistic workers create in our state. ACCM Sponsors are our vital partners in elevating the visibility and bear upon of ACCM, developing and activating arts advocates, and educating the public and elected officials on the value that arts, culture and artistic workers create in our land. With direct reach to over 20,000 engaged arts advocates in the State and networks to hundreds of thousands arts organizations, creative businesses, arts workers, cultural bearers, elected officials, funders and arts patrons– your sponsorship puts you in front of committed and influential arts, culture and artistic industries leaders.

We look forward to working with you to create a customized Sponsor Visibility Package that honors your support.

Thanks TO OUR SPONSORS

ACCM 2022 | The Arts Work: California Arts Champion Awards

Californians for the Arts is bringing dorsum the Arts Champion accolade where we recognize state arts and civilization policy leaders.

Stay tuned equally we denote the 2022 awards for statewide policy leaders for arts advocacy.

Past Legislative Arts Star Honor recipients include

2019

Assemblymember Richard Bloom
Senator Scott Wilk

2018:

Senator Ben Allen
Senator Jim Nielsen

2017

Assemblymember Ian Calderon

*Note: in 2020-21 : No awards were issued