Resources
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Best Practices for Multicultural & Underserved Community Initiatives
🖥 Colorado Creative Corridor Offers Travelers a New Creative Lens to Explore Rural Colorado
⇢ A new way to tour Colorado invites travelers to explore five rural destinations as part of a unique itinerary highlighting arts and cultural experiences.
📘 Colorado Creative Districts: An Introduction For Start-Up Districts
⇢ This Introduction is meant to help potentially interested communities get started with building their Creative District.
📘🖼 Colorado Creative Industries: Best Practices Toolkit - Carbondale & Greeley
⇢ This toolkit demonstrates different successful creative arts programing in Carbondale & Greeley.
🖥📘🖼 Creative Placemaking & Expansion of Opportunity
⇢ At its best, Creative Placemaking builds on a community’s cultural assets and leads to healthier places where all people, particularly those from historically marginalized communities, can thrive.
🖥📘🖼 Governance Models for Cultural Districts
⇢ The point was that there are interests… whose perspectives are important to both planning and management, but whose ‘voices’ can be drowned out, by central or local government, or by developers, whose interests are important but should probably not be decisive.
📘🖼 Paonia Signage Summary Booklet
⇢ Central to the success of any signage & wayfinding program is its ability to communicate a memorable, compelling, understandable, and authentic story about place.
🎥 Rocky Mountain PBS – Arts District: Colorado Creative Corridor
⇢ A cohesive 331-mile travel itinerary now connects the state-certified Creative Districts of Carbondale, Crested Butte, Paonia, Ridgway, and Salida. Plus, how the arts intersect with tourism and local economies.
Creativity Lab of Colorado
📝🖼Real Estate Matters: Access to Affordable Real Estate is Key to Creative District Sustainability
⇢A creative district cannot sustain without creative individuals and a creative community. Therefore, creatives need attainable spaces to live, work, and conduct business.
📝🖼Social Media: The Importance of an Online Presence to a Creative District
⇢The importance of social media and the social internet can’t be understated. It’s benefits and accomplishments – from community organizing, sharing, and safe-space making – stand for themselves in the modern internet age.