Ensembles ABCs
To increase ensembles’ sustainability, NET will design and implement the pilot phase of the Ensembles All-together Building Capacity (Ensembles ABC) program from July 2009-June 2011. Conceived as “next wave” bootstrapping, Ensembles ABC draws on a bank of experts and expertise from within our field to help ensembles learn to help ourselves. The program focuses on expanding ensembles’ organizational fundamentals by tapping existing field experts as mentors and as sources of valuable field-specific wisdom, knowledge and experience, and by creating opportunities for additional peer-to-peer network building and information sharing. These “shared wisdom” and peer-to-peer learning strategiesdraw on existing knowledge of our field’s best practices, while also documenting and disseminating them for broader impact.
The program will offer a menu of professional development workshops and opportunities that build and strengthen ensemble capacity based on the best practices within the field. It aims to pass on exemplar practices with an eye toward the long haul, while fostering the ongoing inter-generational and inter-cultural relationships that are at the heart of ensemble working methodology. Given the diversity of the ensemble field in budget sizes, years in operation and aesthetics, the Ensembles ABC program will be a comprehensive solution, providing multiple points of entry, with the ability to be expanded gradually over time.
Ensemble ABCs Sessions
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