CCE Leadership

Monday was the second CCE leadership meeting. Neil, George, Evelyn, Ian, and Jim (myself) all attended. We started off sharing what we had been working on; George was really happy that we finally got a full mailing list of all of our creative economy contacts, fully grouped by cluster or DC council, as well as lists for the Mt. Auburn focus group and for brown bag lunch invitees (that did take forever though!).

After some debate, we determined the role that the CCE will have in the meetups we plan to stage for each of the clusters. The goal of each meetup will be to have the members of that cluster, with encouragement but not interference from us, identify a total of 9 projects that would be valuable to that cluster. Within that total of nine, we will ask them to find three political goals, three events/one-time projects, and three destinations, or physical locations they feel would be appreciated. We will also provide directions on how to sign up for creativesdc.com if they would like to continue discussion of these ideas.

With the first meetup scheduled for next Tuesday the 14th, we will be sending out invitations today and hope to get a few dozen RSVPs!

CCE Up And Running

The Center for the Creative Economy is now moving forward with community building within the 6 creative economic clusters as outlined in the creative capital report. The CCE will be hosting several Brown Bag Lunches this summer, as well as a TEDx event coming up in September (date TBD).

We will be updating this blog with news about CCE meetings and developments as they happen! In fact, this afternoon will be a small meeting between George, Neil, Evelyn, Ian, and myself to discuss our progress this past week and make plans for a performing arts cluster meetup that we hope to host next week.

Also, make sure to save the date for our next Brown Bag Lunch with Andy Shallal, Wednesday June 22nd at noon in the District Office building at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue.