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Show Arts Council holds annual congress The Utah Arts Council invites anyone concerned with the state of the arts in Utah to attend the 1980 Congress. For registration information contact the Council in Salt Lake City at 533-5895. The Second Annual Utah Delegate Arts Congress will convene Friday and Saturday at the Salt Lake Art Center in downtown Salt Lake City. Sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Congress provides Utahns a forum for expressing ex-pressing their concerns regarding development of the arts in our state. , The Council has also contracted experts in the field who will present seminars throughout the two-day event on such topices as fund . raising, promotion, advocacy and "burn-out." The Utah Delegate Arts Congress, . now in its second year, was originally funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and designed to enable the Utah Arts Council to develop community action planning for the -arts on a statewide basis. Since the 1979 Congress, it has evolved into an annual channel whereby Utah's arts community may discuss common needs and concerns and make recommendations on future Council programming and services. ser-vices. The 1980 Congress will convene Friday at 9:30 a.m. Former Governor Calvin R. Rampton will be a keynote speaker at the Congress, addressing the subject of arts advocacy. ad-vocacy. The opening session will also feature progress reports on the 22 recommendations passed during the 1979 Congress : the formation of Utah Citizens for the Arts, Utah's new advocacy organization; the development of a statewide promotional campaign for the arts; and the establishment of a community arts council network in Utah, among others. Other quest speakers appearing during the Congress include Frank Sanguinetti, director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and attorney, Daniel Darger. Marge Thomas of Common Cause will present a workshop on lobbying, and Craig Ogan of Gillham's Advertising Agency will speak on public relations, and marketing for non-profit organizations. Additional speakers include Richard Steckel from the Denver Children's Museum, and Thomas Turk, director of the Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies and a member of the Board of Directors for the National Assembly of Community Arts Agencies. Friday evening at 8 R.m. the Council will sponsor a showcase of the 1980 Utah Rural Arts Consortium performers. |