Collaborate Clearfield Arts

A 2016 Dramaturgical Project with Clearfi eld Arts Studio

Theatre
Facilitated by Mary Beth Geppert
CASTs resident Dramaturg
beageppert@gmail.com

This project is designed to develop performing arts resources,

networks, and practitioner skills across Clearfield County. It also has
the broader objective of investigating the process of volunteer
collaboration between artistic groups with extremely varied
constituencies of needs.
What makes a community healthy? What makes
a healthy community? What role can the arts
play, in partnership with other sectors, in
keeping our communities vibrant, healthy, and
equitable over the next decade and beyond?
Together we can connect and share best practices and learn the latest
trends, develop our base of volunteer support, keep up with latest
technologies, make our work relevant to our communities, analyze
strategies for volunteer and audience engagement, and determine
better ways through conversations with one another.
Let us create a gift culture by ensuring mentoring and coaching
becomes embedded in our community arts collaboration. What I mean
by this is that we establish a cooperative gift culture in place of a
more transactional tit-for-tat culture.
Collaborate Clearfield Arts aims to open and
improve communications, increase the exchange
of ideas, and create a deeper sense of
community.
1. What are your expectations of Collaborate Clearfield Arts
partnerships?
2. What are your groups planning needs?
3. What are the deficits in your groups skill base?
4. Are you interested in professional development?
5. Would your group participate in a Collaborate Clearfield Arts
Festival?
6. Would your group participate in a Collaborate Clearfield Arts
Competition?

7. Would your group participate in partnership events like master

classes, joint performances, traveling performances, flash mobs,
Clearfield Festivals, etc.?
8. Do you have young people interested in taking leadership roles in
Collaborate Clearfield Arts?
9. How might young people be involved in planning a platform for
collaborative partnerships?
10. Date and time options for a meeting to talk about Collaborate
Clearfield Arts.