DCA to hold Region 2 CHAT meeting Monday in Clear Lake
Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Winnebago, Worth and Wright counties
For Immediate Release August 14, 2008
(DES MOINES, Iowa) –Cultural leaders, workers and supporters in Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Winnebago, Worth and Wright counties are invited to a Region 2 CHAT – Culture, History, Arts Team – meeting 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday at the Clear Lake Public Library in Clear Lake.
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs created CHAT as a new networking program for the state’s cultural leaders, workers and supporters, and as a reporting tool that will help document their activities and generate more data about the economic impact they have on the state.
“Iowa’s creative economy is growing every year as our cultural workers produce more events and programs that enhance the quality of life for people in our state,” Pederson said. “The potential for job growth in this area is enormous, but we continue to hear from cultural workers and their supporters who say they need help in making sure their concerns and requests are being heard by local and state leaders.”
CHAT is designed to strengthen Iowa’s cultural infrastructure; give Iowa’s cultural workers and their supporters opportunities to exchange ideas and information; document the programs and events they offer; and raise awareness about the economic impact they have on the state.
More information about CHAT is available by contacting DCA’s Deirdre Giesler at deirdre.giesler@iowa.gov or 515-281-7471. Monday’s CHAT meeting information follows:
Monday, Aug. 18, 2008
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Clear Lake Public Library
200 N 4th St
Clear Lake, Iowa 50428
(This meeting will be a Brown Bag Lunch)
For more information about the Region 2 meeting, contact Jean Casey at 641-357-6133.
Iowa’s 13 CHAT regions are comprised as follows:
Region 1: Lyon, Osceola, Dickinson, Sioux, O’Brien, Clay, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Vista
Region 2: Emmet, Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth, Palo Alto, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Pocahontas, Humboldt, Wright
Region 3: Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Floyd, Chickasaw, Fayette, Clayton
Region 4: Woodbury, Ida, Sac, Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Harrison, Shelby, Audubon
Region 5: Calhoun, Webster, Hamilton, Greene, Boone, Story, Guthrie, Dallas
Region 6: Franklin, Butler, Bremer, Hardin, Grundy, Black Hawk, Buchanan
Region 7: Marshall, Tama, Benton, Jasper, Poweshiek, Mahaska
Region 8: Linn, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, Keokuk, Washington, Muscatine
Region 9: Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Jackson, Clinton, Scott
Region 10: Pottawattamie, Cass, Adair, Mills, Montgomery, Adams, Fremont, Page, Taylor
Region 11: Madison, Warren, Marion, Union, Clarke, Lucas, Ringgold, Decatur, Wayne
Region 12: Monroe, Wapello, Jefferson, Henry, Louisa, Des Moines, Appanoose, Davis, Van Buren, Lee
Region 13: Polk
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The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is responsible for developing the state’s interest in the areas of the arts, history and other cultural matters with the advice and assistance from its two divisions: the State Historical Society of Iowa and the Iowa Arts Council. DCA preserves, researches, interprets and promotes an awareness and understanding of local, state and regional history and stimulates and encourages the study and presentation of the performing and fine arts and public interest and participation in them. It implements tourism-related art and history projects as directed by the General Assembly and designs a comprehensive, statewide, long-range plan with the assistance of the Iowa Arts Council to develop the arts in Iowa. More information about DCA is available at www.culturalaffairs.org.
