New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts
Today is Friday, July 25, 2008.
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New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts Today is Friday, July 25, 2008. |
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NHBCA To Host "Creative Class" Author Richard Florida October 14th(Concord, NH) - The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts will host a keynote address by Dr. Richard Florida, author of the national best seller, The Rise of the Creative Class, at a dinner on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. at the Center of NH Holiday Inn in Manchester. Tickets to the event are available to the public.According to Dr. Florida, the Creative Class is defined as those people - artists, scientists, engineers and architects - who use creativity as a key element in their work in business, education, law or other profession. This new social class now comprises more than thirty percent of the entire workforce. Florida asserts that in the future these workers will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive or wither. The event will cap off a full day of presentations in Portsmouth and Manchester. Beginning in Portsmouth, Dr. Florida will be featured at a session sponsored by the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce to explore and further the relationship of creativity among the arts, local government, small businesses, entrepreneurs and the tourism industry specific to the Seacoast regional economy. In Manchester, Dr. Florida will attend several small working meetings organized to consider the implications of his findings to New Hampshire. Topics include: the current and prospective role of creativity and the creative class in New Hampshire's rural areas; consideration of how Manchester might enhance the economic benefits from its significant creative resources; and how the creative class might influence the New Hampshire presidential primary in 2004 and future elections in the state and across the country by encouraging a creative economy platform on local and national levels. Included in the afternoon discussions will be representatives from the University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and the New England Council, as well as selected political, government, business and community leaders. The NHBCA acknowledges Professor Ross Gittell at UNH's Whittemore School of Business and Economics - and friend and colleague of Richard Florida - for helping to recruit Dr. Florida to New Hampshire. Other co-hosts for the day's events include the New Hampshire Political Library, the NH Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College and Manchester's Art Builds Community! Florida's visit is sponsored by Ocean National Bank, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Additional support is provided by from the Sheraton Harborside Hotel and Center of NH Holiday Inn. Tickets to the dinner are $40 per person, and are available by contacting the NHBCA at 603 224-8300 or www.nhbca.com. The NHBCA was formed in 1985 to educate, motivate, and recognize business support of and participation in the arts, and has more than 70 business members. |
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 New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts One Granite Place, Concord, NH 03301 v: 603.224.8300 f: 603.226.2963 e: arts@nhbca.com w: www.nhbca.com |
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