Over a period of roundtable "world cafe" discussions, participants at the Storm the Palace table wrote the following summary ideas on a flip chart or post-it to the idea wall - each idea is being posted to the "Community Forums: Arts & Culture" on REALNEO focused on this category... read on:

Arts and Culture

• Broaden the range of the arts , don’t keep it hidden in neighborhoods, let everyone in
• Local community arts festival
• Stimulate counterculture
• Ad money for arts, public encouragement
• Fund a local arts expo – have them on a regular basis
• Why nonprofit community is more innovative than the business community (Arts)
• Everyone can Do It ! (Arts) - Give us the place / chance
• Less cultural sanitation
• Free arts Expo for Local Artists
• Promote Arts via Technology
• Less cultural sanitation
• Free news willing to report real happenings
• Arts festival, monthly arts happenings
• Publicity for my Cleveland-made independent movie - mephistotheatrics [at] hotmail [dot] com
• Assets are already here: we don’t leverage our advantage
• Don’t have support systems- day jobs for individual artists
• Cleveland does have a solid group of smaller arts groups that seem to find an audience
• Can we make the arts avenue for networking and business entertainment
• Arts groups should do more target on segment marketing
• Don’t have support systems/ day jobs for individual artists
• Cleveland does have a solid group of smaller arts groups that seem to find an audience
• Can we make the arts avenue for networking and business entertainment
• Arts groups should do more target or segment marketing