Michael M. Kaiser, president of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., will give an “Arts in Crisis” presentation Wednesday at the Honolulu Civic Center .
Kaiser will address challenges facing non-profit performing arts organizations, ranging from board development and marketing to budgeting, during a presentation set for 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Mission Memorial Auditorium, 550 S. King St.
Kaiser, who has headed The Kennedy Center since January 2001, has expanded the educational and artistic programming for our nation’s center for the performing arts. He is considered a national authority in arts management and administration, and is otherwise known as the “turnaround king.”
In February, he created “Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative,” a program to provide free arts management consulting to non-profit performing arts organizations. The program provides free and confidential planning assistance in areas that are of critical importance to sustaining a performing arts organization in a troubled economy.
Nonprofit performing arts organizations interested in participating in the program should visit the Arts in Crisis website at www.artsincrisis.org to submit an online request.
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, in its role as the Hawai‘i member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, will host Kaiser’s presentation in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, and the Oahu Kennedy Center Partner in Education, Honolulu Theatre for Youth.