• Do you know the Government guidelines and revenue thresholds regarding  the filing of NYS required financial statements?
• Does your organization  need an audited or a reviewed financial statement?
• Do you need to file Federal form 990 or can you file form 990 EZ?
• Are you aware of the many IRS questions contained in form 990?
• What is the condition of your books & records regarding internal control mandates and are they in compliance with financial statement requirements?

These and many other important questions will be answered by Gary M. Flaum, Certified Public Accountant who has extensive audit experience with Nonprofit organizations’ accounting and tax preparation.

Join us at the Arts and Business Council of New York, 1 East 53rd Street at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 27th where Gary will explain how to comply with all the guidelines and make your organization’s audit or review easier.

We look forward to meeting you at this important and informative event.

Wine and cheese will be served.

Please RSVP to Stephanie Dockery: sdockery@artsandbusiness-ny.org

Monday, February 27th, 6-8PM
1 East 53rd Street, Lobby auditorium
THIS EVENT IS FREE

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Behind the Scenes: Music on Stage & Screen

A free panel discussion highlighting careers in music,

Monday, January 23, 2012 , 6:30 p.m.
at the Apollo Theater,  253 West 125^th Street in Harlem

Music on Stage & Screen will feature a mix of music and theatre professionals who will share stories about how they found the right note that led them to successful careers. They’ll share behind the scenes tales from their varied backgrounds and offer advice to those interested in pursuing a career in music on stage and in film and television. A Q&A session will follow.

Panelists include:
Kimberly Grigsby – music director, conductor (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza)

Rosena M. Hill – vocalist (The Color Purple, Spamalot, Oklahoma)

Diedre L. Murray – composer; jazz instrumentalist; musical adaptor (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Best of Both Worlds, The Voice Within)

Glenn Slater – lyricist (Sister Act, The Little Mermaid, Love Never Dies)

Antwan “Amadeus” Thompson – CEO, Platinum Boy Music; record producer, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ The Hitmen production team

The panel will be moderated by Alan Simon, the creator of On Location Education, which offers on-set education services for film, television and theatre productions. He is also the co-author of The Young Performer’s Guide: How to Break into Show Business and is an active member of the Broadway League.

RSVP: rsvpmedia@media.nyc.gov or 212.531.5363

For more info: http://www.apolloeducation.org/teens/career-panels

http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/010112_apollo_panel_music.shtml

presented by the Apollo Theater Education Program, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment “Made In New York”  industry Series, and ASCAP

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This Creative Conversation is geared towards empowering emerging leaders to think outside the box and take their careers into their own hands.  Moderated by Monique Martin (Director of Family Programming, CityParks Foundation/SummerStage), this panel discussion will feature Risë Wilson (Founder of The Laundromat Project), Meghan Stabile (President/CEO of Revive Music Group), Kaisha Johnson (Co-Founder of Women of Color in the Arts) and Adam Schatz (Founder of Search and Restore), four outstanding arts professionals who have successfully created their own paths and advanced the field along the way. We will delve into how the panelists got started, the inspiration behind their projects and the opportunities and challenges that they have faced along the way. Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from their journeys and begin charting your own course.

Please note: This Creative Conversation is a moderated panel discussion followed by a 20-minute break out session in which you will have the opportunity to sit down in a small group with a panelist of your choice for a more intimate conversation. Please be sure to designate the panelist that you would like to sit with during the break out session in your RSVP. ** Please see panelist bios below.

Date:                     Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Time:                     7:00pm-8:30pm. * Reception to follow at 8:30pm.
Location:              Harlem School of the Arts
645 Saint Nicholas Avenue at 141st Street, NY, NY 10030

Please RSVP here: bit.ly/rBdwLl

Curated by Simone Eccleston, ELNYA Fellow
Presented in collaboration with They’ve Got Next and Harlem School of the Arts

About They’ve Got Next
Founded by Simone Eccleston, They’ve Got Next is a new online platform designed for young professionals who are taking arts and culture to the next level. Through multimedia features and interviews, it seeks to acknowledge, promote and celebrate excellence, innovation and vision amongst young artistic and administrative professionals in the field; as well as build community both intra- and inter-generationally.

About Harlem School of the Arts
For nearly a half-century, The Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of young people ages 4-18 through world-class training in the arts. HSA stands unique among community arts institutions in New York City, as the sole provider of arts education in four disciplines (music, dance, theater and visual arts) under one roof-our award-winning 37,000 square foot facility. HSA’s mission empowers young people mainly from under-served communities in Harlem to find and develop the artist and citizen within themselves. Our environment teaches discipline, stimulates creativity, builds self-confidence and adds a dimension of beauty to our students’ lives. HSA boasts an impressive alumni base of Tony-award winning actors, celebrated operatic voices and jazz musicians, visual artists and dancers, and individuals who cite HSA as the platform from which they launched careers in law, business and other professional fields. The School’s reputation for artistic rigor and excellence attracts constituents from all five New York City boroughs, Westchester County and New Jersey. We are especially proud to be among the pioneering cultural institutions that have been instrumental in Harlem’s rebirth.

Moderator:

Monique Martin

Director of Family Programming, CityParks Foundation/SummerStage

Monique Martin joined CityParks Foundation (CPF) in 2007; CPF produces SummerStage in Central Park and over 1,200 music, dance, theater and kids programs in 700 parks city wide every summer. As Director of Family Programming she brings her vision and expertise in presenting relevant, fresh and thoughtful programming for youth to New York City families. Prior to joining CPF she was an Associate Director of Programming for LMCC as part of the River to River Festival where she presented music, dance and family programs. As an independent curator, producer and marketing consultant she has partnered with and produced for Joe’s Pub, Disney, Apollo Theater, New Victory Theater, South Bank Centre/UK, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Harlem Stage, Queens Theater in the Park, NJPAC, HBO and various Broadway productions.

Panelists (please pick one in your RSVP):

Kaisha S. Johnson

Co-Founder, Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA)

As a staunch advocate for diversity on and off the stage, Kaisha S. Johnson co-founded Women of Color in the Arts, a service organization dedicated to promoting diversity in the performing arts field, by creating professional opportunities for arts administrators. Johnson is currently the Director of Touring at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD). In this capacity, she introduces audiences to cultural traditions from around the world and helps affirm the value of cultural diversity as an essential component of our national identity. With a commitment to facilitating diverse programming, Kaisha serves as an arts consultant providing assistance to artists and non-profits in the form of tour management, program development, marketing and fundraising. She designs and implements integrated programs for the arts, while researching and soliciting funding from private, government and corporate foundations. Ms. Johnson currently serves as a lecturer at the City University of New York (CUNY) in the Non-Profit Management Certificate Program, teaching courses in grant writing, fundraising and marketing. She is also the director of ¡Africanisimo!, a unique project that showcases the performing arts from throughout The African Diaspora with a focus on The Americas, highlighting the evolution of traditions outside of the African continent.

http://www.womenofcolorinthearts.org/

Adam Schatz

Founder, Search and Restore

Adam Schatz founded Search & Restore in late 2007. It has since grown into a non-profit organization, committed to bringing the artists and audiences of new jazz and improvised music together in new ways. Since 2008, Search and Restore has presented over 50 shows, including such notable events as a multi-floor, final night of jazz in the legendary Manhattan Knitting Factory, the first NYC performance in 3 years by the acclaimed band Alas No Axis, The Winter Jazzfest, and an unprecedented four-night NYC residency for Kneebody, and the Undead Jazzfest. In December 2010, Search and Restore successfully raised over $76,000 through Kickstarter to embark on a year-long video documentation of the NYC jazz scene and expand the SearchAndRestore.com website to serve as a flagship home for the new jazz community. Search and Restore is currently in the midst of its Jazz2012.com campaign, which seeks to raise $200,000 for its 2012 operations.

http://searchandrestore.com/

Meghan Stabile

President/CEO, Revive Music Group

Meghan Stabile is one of the greatest visionaries and music trailblazers of our generation. An alumnus of Berklee College of Music, Stabile began producing a series of events under the pseudonym of Revive Da Live, marrying the essence of improvisation and authentic expression of both jazz and hip-hop music in a completely new way. Stabile’s most resonating recent work was the Roy Ayers Tribute, featuring The Robert Glasper Experiment, Stefon Harris, and Pete Rock, which has toured internationally. Her work as President/CEO of Revive Music Group has spawned a new creative culture of live music productions; her consulting business has increased musician advocacy, and her co-ownership of The Revivalist has redefined music journalism.

http://revivalist.okayplayer.com/

Risë Wilson
Founder, The Laundromat Project, Inc.

Risë Wilson is the Program Manager for Leveraging Investment in Creativity’s Space for Change program, which aids arts organizations and community leaders in imagining and planning for a 21st century art space. Risë is also the Founder of The Laundromat Project (The LP), an emerging social enterprise that mounts public art projects in neighborhood laundromats as a way of increasing the quality of life in communities of color living on low incomes. The long term vision for the organization is to build an art center attached to a laundromat that it owns and operates. After conceiving the idea for The LP in 1999, Risë focused both her academic and professional careers on bringing the organization to fruition. In addition to graduate work at NYU, Risë pursued a practical education in non-profit arts management by holding positions in both large-scale and grassroots cultural institutions such as the MoMA, ICP, the Painted Bride, and Art Sanctuary. Her work has earned national recognition; she was a 2004 Echoing Green fellow and a 2008 Douglas Redd fellow in art and community development. Risë’s BA is in African-American Studies from Columbia University where she was a Kluge Scholar, and her MA is in Africana Studies from NYU where she was a MacCracken Fellow. She is former faculty at Parsons, the New School for Design, where she helped product design students apply their creative talents to the public sphere, and is currently in the process of launching a coaching and consultant practice to help organizations and individuals “focus on purpose.”

http://www.laundromatproject.org/

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Come grab a beer and a bite with your NYC art buds before the holidays completely hijack us ’til January.

WHEN:  Wednesday, November 30, 6:30-9:30pm
WHERE:  Radegast Hall & Biergarten, 113 North 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
HOW:  RSVP here please.  Then L to Bedford.  Just one stop out of Manhattan and the fresh pretzels are so worth it!
PS: There’s a great Django-like guitarist playing at 9:00.

Hope you can join us.  Bring friends!

–The ELNYA Board & Fellows

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What are you doing next Wednesday?  Come grab a beer and a bite with your NYC art buds before the holidays completely hijack us ’til January.WHEN:  Wednesday, November 30, 6:30-9:30pm
WHERE:  Radegast Hall & Biergarten, 113 North 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
HOW:  RSVP here please.  Then L to Bedford.  Just one stop out of Manhattan and the fresh pretzels are so worth it!
PS: There’s a great Django-like guitarist playing at 9:00.

Hope you can join us,

The ELNYA Board & Fellows

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We’ve made up our minds: for our first ELNYA book club meeting of the season, we’ll be reading The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar.  And it turns out that making up one’s mind is a much more intricate process than we ever knew, a revelation courtesy of this brilliant author and renowned sociologist. Choice—what defines it and what drives it—is a topic of great relevance in the arts space, as organizations jockey for funding and attention while arts professionals strive to make the best decisions they can in their lives and careers.

We’ll meet on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 from 7-8:30pm for snacks (bring some treats) and discussion (bring some thoughts). We have a couple of locale options, but let us know if you have a venue that you’d like to offer or suggest.  Please email the book mistress for more details or to RSVP.  We hope you choose to join us!

Read on.
Emma Cofer & Teresa Koberstein

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Fellows Happy Hour, 10.27

Please join us in welcoming the inaugural cohort of ELNYA Fellows!

As National Arts & Humanities Month winds down, ELNYA is launching its kick-off party to celebrate where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going. Meet the Fellows, share your stories and ideas, perhaps join an Action Committee.

In other words, create conversations. It’s what we do best.

ELNYA Fellows continue the path to empowerment by building programming and resources while strengthening their own networks and community. Find out what they’ve got planned next week!

Idle Hands Bar, downstairs
25 Avenue B (between 2nd and 3rd Streets)

Great beers on tap by Great Brewers (greatbrewers.com)

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Celebrate National Arts & Humanities Month.
Celebrate leadership.
Celebrate relationships.

Mark your calendars for ELNYA’s next Creative Conversation, where we will be featuring Executive Directors and Board Members in conversation on leadership relationships.

This Creative Conversation, moderated by ABC/NY Executive Director Will Maitland Weiss, will explore the dynamics within arts governance. Engaging select pairs of executive leaders and board members from a range of organizations, we’ll discuss the various management styles and communications techniques that these diversely talented teams use to build relationships, make decisions, and work together for the benefit of their organizations. We will explore how the dynamics of arts and business come together to create solutions and develop plans and programs that are rewarding for the arts leader, the business leader, and the organization as a whole.

Where: The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space @ WNYC
When: Tuesday, October 18th, 6:30 PM
RSVP: sdockery@artsandbusiness-ny.org

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