For the 28th year, Theatre Communications Group publishes Theatre Facts, an annual update on the field's attendance, performance and fiscal health, based on information provided by theatres that participate in the annual TCG fiscal survey.

Transcript of Zelda Fichlander's lecture, for the 15th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy.

A strategic business plan, based on current research data, designed to address the needs and issues facing arts and cultural organizations and constituents in the Sacramento Metropolitan area.

Examines the organizational features of the media arts, placing them in the context of the broader arts environment and identifying the major challenges they face.

The authors examined the effects of autobiographical writing on the well-being of older adults to determine if there were differences between participants who enrolled in an autobiographical writing class or those who took part in a continuing education liberal arts class.

This article looks at the impact of ethnic group history on perceptions of civic engagement and argues that, instead of there being 1 civic culture in the , there are a variety of civic subcultures.

For most people who participate in arts and culture, the experience involves community connections with particular people or acquaintances in their communities; through community organizations that are important to them; or at places that are familiar, friendly and accessible. These community connections represent 'paths of engagement,' and a deeper understanding of those everyday connections can open new opportunities for arts and cultural organizations to build participation. This is a key finding from a survey of residents in five places where prorgams have been working to broaden,

The writer examines issues which are at the core of the activity of public art professionals, but the implications of which can be set aside in the day-to-day administration of public art.

Continental Harmony is a project completed in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, which placed composers in 58 communities across the . The evaluation of this project begins to prove the broad efficacy of arts-based community development. This study would be of interest to funders, communities, and artists.

RAND examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses how the arts are likely to evolve in the future.