{"id":1925,"date":"2012-09-05T06:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2012-09-05T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:50:22","slug":"on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/2012\/09\/on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road: The DIY Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Beginning this month (September) I am undertaking a DIY (do-it-yourself) tour for my book Building Communities, Not Audiences<\/em><\/a>. Having taken the print-on-demand route for publishing it, there is not a deep pockets (or even shallow pockets) publisher funding a tour. So, when I am going to be someplace anyway, I’m finagling ways to hawk it. This feels like a strange undertaking for me. Self-promotion (and I cannot construct a way to think about this that makes it be much other than that, even though the mission of this work is<\/em> vitally important to me) is not a natural fit.<\/p>\n

That said, the schedule below is a work in progress. In many of these instances, there is room for more stops in the area. If you’d like me to come to a street corner near you, let me know. Also, going forward, if you’d like to bring this show to a city or state near you that’s not already on the list, let me know. There are a variety of ways I’m using to package opportunities to make things workable. I do have my own contacts across the country, so sometimes it only takes a single crystal to make something bigger form. \u00a0The “tour” as currently envisioned will be an ad hoc, on-going, “progressive dinner” type of “event.”<\/p>\n

So far, here is the schedule (also available for any who might care at http:\/\/www.artsengaged.com\/content\/artsengaged-road<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/strong>
\nSeptember 14
\nMidwest Arts Conference<\/a> Workshop: “Building Communities, Not Audiences”
\nJohnson Center for Philanthropy Workshop: “Engaging for Success”<\/a><\/p>\n

North Carolina<\/strong>
\nSeptember 27
\nArts Council of WInston-Salem\/Forsyth County: “Building Communities, Not Audiences” Panel and Book Signing<\/p>\n

Virginia<\/strong>
\nOctober 1-2
\nSweet Briar College: Residency<\/p>\n

Washington, DC<\/strong>
\nOctober 4
\nNational Assembly of State Arts Agencies Community Development Peer Group: “Beyond Placemaking”<\/p>\n

Wisconsin<\/strong>
\nOctober 9
\nRobert E. Gard Foundation\/Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters (Madison): Book signing<\/p>\n

Indiana<\/strong>
\nOctober 10
\nTippecanoe Arts Federation (Lafayette), Bravo for the Arts<\/a>: “Arts Build Communities”<\/p>\n

North Carolina<\/strong>
\nNovember 11
\nNAMP Conference Roundtable (Charlotte): “Systemic Approaches to Community Engagement”<\/a>
\nNovember 12
\nNAMP Conference book signing<\/p>\n

\u00a0I would love to see you . . . sometime soon.<\/p>\n

Engage!<\/p>\n

Doug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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