To NFT or not to NFT? That is the question, and more, for Arts and Tech in our Creative Economy

Join Eat More Art Vegas at Art Square for a panel at Tech Alley, 3/18/23.

Join Eat More Art LLC and cNFTcon for a blockchain conversation.

"Culture War Rubble or Creative Renaissance?" Was our headline for the recent recap of the City of Las Vegas' Arts and Culture Summit last month. The Creative Economy will reign supreme in our time at the dawn of the third millennium, but to what end? Will it be an era of advancement fueled by human inspiration in concert with technological discovery, or a rush toward a dark age with ill-informed exploitation of creative enterprise in competition with AI fads and Big Tech?

Creative workers need to learn as quickly as they can about blockchain, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and AI not only to survive financially, but to advance and improve our condition as a society. I have studied and taught enough about Shakespeare's age to know that a renaissance does not come until the Artists of the world grab hold of innovation and make it work for them. I grew up in Silicon Valley in it's early years and I have learned hard lessons about what a double-edged sword the tech industry is to our creative ecosystem. Arts workers who learn early survive and create opportunity. Eat More Art Vegas is on a mission to make that easier for local artists to do just that.

Learning about tech is easier in person where you can ask questions face to face. Here are two opportunities:

Join Eat More Art LLC, cNFTcon, and the UNLV SBDC at Tech Alley, Saturday, 11 AM at Art Square Theatre for an open panel discussion and free networking opportunity. Come earlier for coffee, or stay after for Coastal Mediterranean hors d'oeuvre and networking.

Click here for more info or just show up at Art Square at 11am!

Attend cNFTcon this September 29th through October 1st, 2023. Attendees will learn a number of topics in the space including the basics of blockchain, artificial intelligence, NFTs, DAOs, staking, digital ID, security, Metaverse, and how all of these will change or impact business, government, education, economy and entertainment. Partners include the UNLV Office of Economic Development, zenGate Global, Clay Nation, Forgotten, IAMX, and Beyond Rockets.

Las Vegas Arts & Culture, it's your last chance to BE COUNTED in the AEP6!

Help us prove that local Arts mean business!

The NEVADA ARTS AND CULTURE AEP6 audience survey deadline is May 2023!

WHAT IS AEP6?

Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6) is an economic impact study of the nation’s nonprofit arts and culture industry. It is the largest and most inclusive study of its kind ever conducted, with a specific focus on 360 participating communities from across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

The Nevada Arts Council, Clark County Public Arts Office, and the City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs are research partners identified to assist Americans for the Arts (AFTA) with two primary data collection efforts:​

• An audience-intercept survey of attendees to arts and culture events that take place in the community

• A budget and attendance survey of the nonprofit culture organizations in the community.

​Each community partner will receive a customized final report of their DATA in Fall, 2023.

ATTENTION NONPROFIT LEADERS

1. Be on the lookout for the simple ORGANIZATION SURVEY email from AFTA & fill it out.

2. We still need audience surveys through May 2023, so share the QR survey codes at your events!

• The anonymous audience surveys take 3 min tops from the comfort of their smartphone

• Contact Eat More Art LLC admin@eatmoreartvegas.com or Maggie Plaster mplaster@lasvegasnevada.gov with the CLV Cultural Affairs team to get the QR codes

Click here for more info about the nationwide effort to prove the power of our creative economy.

Winchester Cultural Center to Host a class and poetry reading with Vince Gotera

The Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, located at 3130 McLeod Drive near Desert Inn Blvd, will host an evening of poetry with Vince Gotera on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Vince will read from his latest book of poetry, The Coolest Month, inspired by NaPoWriMo and Poem-a-Day. He will also read a few works and older poems from his work in progress, Aswang Love, a speculative novel-in-poems, fantasy, and horror.

Earlier in the day, Vince will provide a workshop as part of the monthly Writer-Ready series on the Short Form, hay(na)ku, from 10 a.m. to noon. Attendance for this workshop is free to the public, and prior registration is not required.

Join Clark County Poet Laureate Angela M. Brommel for a conversation and collage-based workshop with poet Vince Gotera as they explore hay(na)ku, a simple 3-line poem with one word in the first line, two in the second and three in the third. Vince will go over its history and development since its creation in 2003. Participants will also be able to write different forms of hay(na)ku to share and discuss with the group. This workshop aims for poets to become familiar with the form and its possibilities for their work.

Vince Gotera is a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, where he served as Editor of the North American Review from 2000 to 2016 and is the Editor of Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. His poems appear in Altered Reality Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Philippines Graphic, and the anthology Multiverse in the UK. Vince also runs the blog The Man with the Blue Guitar.

For more information about the Clark County Poet Laureate or to contact Angela, visit her at www.angelambrommel.com. Those interested in the workshop may contact the Winchester Cultural Center at (702) 455-7340 or visit www.ClarkCountyNV.gov/parks. Clark County Parks and Recreation also can be found on Facebook @ clarkcountyparks and Twitter @ ClarkCountyParks.