Programming Highlights: Arts

Arts education is a vibrant topic on the SXSW EDU program with sessions that delve into learning experiences within both schools and the community. Learn more about the programming at SXSW EDU that explores the expanding field of learning through the arts by browsing through the highlights below. Login to the schedule to begin building your personal agenda for March 5-8, 2018.

Senior Vice President of Education at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mario Rossero, and the inaugural Poet Laureate of Albuquerque, Hakim Bellamy, will explore the unique suite of national networks working to remove barriers to equity & access in arts learning. Their featured session, National Arts Networks and Stories of Impact will take a closer look at programs marrying problems of the field with best practice solutions that can be replicated.

The program also features a diverse array of thought provoking and engagement based sessions offering novel approaches, lessons and tools. Here are a few highlights:

• Lisa Mitchell from Disney Theatrical Group will lead a workshop, Creative Collaborations, that will allow attendees to experience the program's methods through an activated rehearsal designed to discover best practices of team teaching, teacher professional development, and establishing strong partnerships between schools and community organizations.


• In a panel discussion Heather Ikemire, Isaiah Rogers, Jon Hinojosa and Lakita Edwards will discuss creative youth development (CYD), a new term that unifies a longstanding practice that intentionally integrates the arts, humanities, and sciences with youth development principles.


• A group of speakers from New York will lead an experiential workshop, The Music Experience Design Lab and #HipHopMusicEd, that allows participants to engage with tools and processes designed to center collaboration and cultural relevance within varying contexts around music and education.

In addition to the sessions highlighted above, SXSW EDU explores groundbreaking work in the pursuit of design-based solutions to challenges within education with a fast-paced pitch competition, Learn by Design. The competition is open to projects and design solutions that enhance physical learning environments for students at every age.

Performances are also a unique element of the SXSW EDU experience. The performance series celebrates theatrical groups, literacy development programs, music groups and more, that offer attendees the opportunity to experience and reflect on the value of performing arts as vehicle for deeper learning.

Continue to explore arts programming scheduled for SXSW EDU and make your plans to join us March 5-8, 2018. Register to attend by Friday, January 12 to save $100 on the walk-up rate.

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