Schedule
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	ELEMENTS			SPONSOR
	The Congress Tote bags			Kirkegaard Associates
	The Congress website and attendance scholarships			IMG Artists
	Video editing			Magaurn Video Media
	The Congress name badges			Fisher Dachs Associates
Monday January 16
TIME	SESSION	VENUE	REMARKS	SPONSOR
12:00-16:00	Registration for early arrivals	Essex	Committee members register during meetings
9.30-17.30	Committee meetings (Meetings take place in two rooms –each meeting is two hours.)	Essex	9.30 Hong Kong; 10.30 Membership; 11.30 Program; 12.30 Nominating (lunch); 13.30 Development (lunch); 14.30 Finance; 15.30 Executive; 16.30 Brussels
Tuesday January 17
09.00-11.45	Board meeting	Essex
10:00-14:00	Registration	Essex Grand Foyer
12.00-13.15	New Members lunch	Essex Central Park	New members welcomed by ISPA leadership
13:00	Welcome Coffee	Essex Grand Foyer	All delegates
13:30	Open, welcome	Essex Grand Salon	2006 Congress officially opens
13:45	Opening Keynote: “UBUNTU”	Essex Grand Salon	John Kani: South African actor/playwright explains UBUNTU	Paul Taylor Dance Company
14:30	UBUNTU Performance	Essex Grand Salon	African-born singer Angelique Kidjo accompanied by guitarist Rubens de la Corte.
14:45	Break	Essex Petit Salon
15:15	UBUNTU: The role and effect of “Superpowers” in the Global Cultural Community.	Essex Grand Salon	Chair: Jackie Davis, Moderator: Sir John Tusa, Panel: Min. Gilberto Gil, Ms. Pamela Wallin, Prof. Yuen Ying Chan, and Andras Szanto.   By the very nature of our work, exposure to cultures from around the world has become an important and exciting responsibility of the arts community.  ISPA is an expression of this interest in providing inter-cultural experiences.  Recent political events have tested relationships between countries.  Media consistently reports social and political controversies.  Join colleagues from around the globe for a lively discussion of these structural and philosophical questions.	Paul Taylor Dance Company
16:45	Ends		Delegates relax and prepare for cocktail
17:30	Welcome cocktail & Auction	Jazz at Lincoln Center Studio	Fun evening with cocktails, entertainment and auction in aid of our Global Engagement scholarships.	Jazz at Lincoln Center Great Performances Caterers
Wednesday January 18
8:45-15:00	Registration	Essex Foyer
8:45	Coffee	Essex Foyer
9:15	Daily Keynote: Making Rules, Breaking Rules: The Artist of the 21st Century	Essex Grand Salon	Founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Liz will talk about hard edges, permeable boundaries, interconnectivity, reconciliation and distinctions, and in her words: "Interactivity with the audience will be developed by my asking questions relevant to my talk, and using the responses and the gestures associated with those responses to build a phrase for a simple dance we will perform together using our own text, or music, or both."
10:30	Coffee	Essex Foyer
10:50	UBUNTU: Arts & Health: Diverse communities interlinked	Essex Grand Salon	Chair: Michael Blachly, Panel: Elizabeth Auer, Jill Sonke-Henderson, Robert Bluestone, Rebecca Bluestone, Naj Wikoff.   This session will focus on a case study that facilitates uniquely meaningful experiences that change the lives of both the artists and the patients as it disseminates the culture of artists interacting with people and communities in deeply meaningful ways.
12:45	Lunch	Essex	All delegates
14:15	Executive Development: Learning and Coaching	Essex Grand Salon	A new approach to peer-learning and networking at ISPA.  Chair: Susan Stockton, Presenter: Charlotte Jones.  Identify your preferred learning style; use that awareness to develop yourself and others. Explore a technique to solve problems and develop ideas.  This will not be a lecture – be prepared to participate.
15:15	UBUNTU: From iPods to the stage: Bridging two worlds.	Essex Grand Salon	Chair: Paul King, Presenter: Paul Kaiser, Dr. Christopher Salter, Elizabeth Streb, Diane Ragsdale. All over the world, young people are deeply immersed in new kinds of interactivity, from text messaging to video games to iPods.  How does this affect their interest in the performing arts? What can we do to bridge two worlds that are in danger of drifting apart? This session explores the intersection of art, audience and technology in order to develop strategies by which performing arts institutions can develop and connect with both young and mature audiences.  The session will bring together leading practitioners of new media and dance to provoke a lively discussion on ways the ISPA delegates can use the latest technology to embrace new audiences and to create new art.
16:45	Ends		Delegates relax and prepare for Awards Dinner
19.30-	Cocktails	St Regis Penthouse	Dress code: Elegant, jacket and tie.
20.00-	Awards Dinner	St Regis Roof	ISPA honors those who inspire us.	Columbia Artists Management Inc.    Clear Channel Entertainment
Thursday January 19
9:00-15:00	Registration
8:30	Coffee	Ailey Studios Foyer
8.30-9.15	"Warm-up" session	Ailey Studios	Renee Robinson, Principal Dancer with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will take us through our paces!
9:30	Annual General Meeting	Ailey Studios Theater	All members discuss the business of the organization.  Chair: Graham Sheffield
10:45	Pitch session	Ailey Studios Theater	A number of New Works pitched to delegates.  Co-Chairs: Walter Jaffe and Paul King.	The Talaske Group
12:30	ProEx	Ailey Studios 5 A&B	Delegates can display brochures etc. at table-top exhibit spaces
12:30	Lunch	Ailey Studios 5 A&B	All delegates
13:30	Optional self-guided tour of the Ailey Studios	Ailey Studios	Delegates can get a behind-the-scenes look at this facility.
13.30	Mentor/Mentee meetings	Ailey Studios 5th floor foyer	Opportunity for one-to-one discussions
15:00	UBUNTU: Lessons applied	Ailey Studios Theater	Break-out sessions: How will we apply UBUNTU in our part of the Global Community?
16:00	Final plenary	Ailey Studios Theater	Feedback from break-out discussions
16:30	Closing Keynote	Ailey Studios Theater	Min. Gilberto Gil: UBUNTU: a Brazilian and global perspective
17:00	ISPA Feedback and closing	Ailey Studios Theater	Delegates express their views and suggestions, and get ISPA feedback.  Chair: Marty Jones, Facilitator: Charlotte Jones.
17.30-	Closing Reception	Ailey Studios 5 A&B	Final farewells, and news about upcoming Congresses.	Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office
Friday January 20
9.30-12.00	Board meeting	Essex