Art, Culture and the National Agenda
Beginning in Spring 2001, the Center will host a series of public forums for discussion, panel presentations and other mutli-media events related to its Art, Culture and the National Agenda project.

Transcripts are available in HTML and PDF formats.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software (which may be downloaded for free) to view and print the documents that are provided in PDF format.

• Culture at the Table, a symposium on cultural policies for the 21st century was held Monday, March 19th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The program was sponsored by ArtTable Inc., the Center for Arts and Culture and the Kennedy Center Education Department. Participants included: Benjamin Barber, Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University; Shalini Venturelli, Associate Professor of International Communication Policy at American University; Gigi Bradford, Executive Director of the Center for Arts; and Culture Sondra Myers, Consultant on International, Civic and Cultural Projects. The transcript is now available in both HTML and PDF formats.
  
• A forum on preservation was hosted by the Center on April 9.  This small, private discussion was moderated by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the First Lady on the Millennium.   The distinguished panel explored policy issues in heritage and preservation requiring consideration by the new Administration and the 107th Congress. The transcript is available in both HTML and PDF formats.