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A Network To Build Chicago Arts Audiences

October 26, 2025 - December 7, 2025

Engaging Audiences through Effective Collaboration

A free AEE Learning Circle for non-profit arts organizations

Presented by Arts Engagement Exchange

Given limited funding and resources, how can you reach new audiences and engage them in your work? Find a partner that already knows your target audience, and work together!

Arts organizations are collaborating like never before to address today's unique challenges. They are stretching their boundaries, sharing ideas, and resources to create innovative strategies for audience development they could not have come to on their own. 

Make sure you're swimming together rather than alone upstream. How do you find the perfect partners? How do you effectively work together to achieve your shared goals? In this free interactive Learning Circle led by independent marketing consultant Kelley Lavin, you'll learn this and more from people who have been there, Chicago arts professionals will share what you need to know to build a successful partnership. By the end of the Learning Circle you will leave with a plan for a real collaborative project that targets new audiences, created with feedback from peers and experts.

Location

Chicago Cultural Center

78 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL

Admission

FREE. Registration Required

Agenda

This Learning Circle, led by independent marketing consultant Kelley Lavin, will be conducted over four sessions on October 26, November 2, November 9, and December 7, 2010. Each session will begin at 9AM and will run to 12PM.

October 26, Session 1: Why Collaborate?

November 2, Session 2: How to identify assets, resources, and organizational needs for a successful collaboration

November 9, Session 3: How to evaluate and approach potential partners and plan a partnership

December 7, Session 4: Panel and consultation for participant collaboration proposals

Resources

This is the homework for the first session of “Engaging Audiences through Effective Collaboration.” If you have any questions about the homework, please contact Maureen Burns at [email protected].

Didn’t make it to the Learning Circle? Download Kelley Lavin’s presentation for the first session of the AEE workshop on how to engage new audiences through different types of collaboration. A list of organizations participating in the Learning Circle can also be found in her presentation.

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