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Benefits & Services

As a member of Arts Presenters, your organization has access to a wealth of services and resources:

Annual Members Conference

Join presenters, artists, managers and agents from across North America and abroad to meet and network at the largest conference in the field! Our annual Members Conference is an exciting opportunity to discover valuable information about the industry through workshops and plenary sessions. The Resource Room puts members in touch with artists, managers, agents and arts-related suppliers and gives you access to hundreds of free performances all over New York City. For more information about our Members Conference, this year's speakers and highlights or to register, click here.

Online Services @ www.artspresenters.org

Register for the Members Conference or available seminars, purchase books and materials from our Bookstore, find out what's happening on Capitol Hill, discuss the latest issues with your colleagues or discover the new programs, advocacy and networking possibilities available for you!

The "Members" section of our website gives you access to:

Resource Library: An organized and curated approach to a vast amount of resources and knowledge on presenting and the performing arts. Arts Presenters has compiled a Resource Library that provides key information for a large array of topics in the field such as The Basics, The Business of the Performing Arts and resource material for specific art forms.
Virtual Communities: Arts Presenters has created online communities to connect members to your fellow professionals in the field working on and dealing with similar issues and challenges. Members can sign-up for an Arts Presenters E-Newsletter, join a pre-existing listserv or initiate a listserv of their own.
JobBank: Only Arts Presenters members can post and search job openings online for FREE.
Information from the field: Arts Presenters' powerful database of information shares news about your colleagues that puts you in touch with time and money-saving expertise and provides benchmarking to further your organization's development.
Presenter Reports: Search our online database of Presenter Reports, a valuable series of performance evaluations and related critical information provided by your colleagues.

Funding Opportunities & Scholarships

Arts Presenters continues to keep members updated on funding opportunities and developments in philanthropy that affect the field. For the most recent opportunities, click here.

Affinity Programs

Click here to read the details about our various members-only discounts to products and services.

Advocacy

One of the foremost advocates for the performing arts in America, Arts Presenters represents our members' interests before the United States Congress, the White House and Federal agencies by informing legislators and policymakers about the vital role of the performing arts in American life. Whether lobbying for increased funding for the arts, improved visa policies for foreign artists or tax incentives for charitable giving, Arts Presenters works to make members' voices heard in Washington. We keep members informed through action alerts, regular E-news updates, quarterly member newsletters and our website.

National Voice

Arts Presenters acts as a national voice for the performing arts community by providing background and resource materials and national spokespeople in the arts community. In addition, we conduct research and surveying of the field, staying up-to-date on the needs and challenges of the performing arts. Our findings, through surveys, partnerships and collaborative studies, are designed to help organizations improve their management capacity, increase their responsiveness to local communities and strengthen local and national advocacy efforts.

Inside Arts

Inside Arts magazine explores issues critical to the performing arts field. Each issue introduces readers to both well-known and unfamiliar artists and their work, details case studies of successful programs and features targeted nuts-and-bolts organizational development articles. Members receive a FREE subscription to this bimonthly magazine, the only one like it for the presenting and touring field.

Publications

Arts Presenters sells many valuable publications on the presenting field through its bookstore. A wide range of titles is offered on nonprofit management, fundraising, marketing, audience development, publicity, event planning and much more! Our inventory includes research findings, how-to's and manuals on a variety of arts-related topics. Members enjoy discounts with each bookstore purchase.

Artists From Abroad

Arts Presenters offers our members one-on-one technical assistance for visa processing and is developing in-depth seminars to offer at multiple sites around the country. Created by Arts Presenters and the American Symphony Orchestra League, www.artistsfromabroad.org provides guidance for foreign artists and artist management companies seeking visas for performance engagements in the United States. The site offers artists and management the very latest rules and regulations affecting artists as well as downloadable toolboxes offering handy worksheets, forms and links.

Seminars

For the past 49 years, Arts Presenters has offered the very best in professional development and continuing education opportunities to its members. Responding to the changing ecology of the performing arts industry, Arts Presenters has created new programs to keep pace with member needs as they develop. In addition to enduring programs, new seminars have been designed to specifically deal with current work trends and our changing environment.

Arts Presenters' continuing education offerings train presenters, artists, agents and managers on the skills needed to bring artists and audiences together, providing the essential tools to better enable them to do their jobs. Arts Presenters members receive substantial discounts on fees for educational offerings throughout the year, and scholarship opportunities are available for select courses.

For a full list of upcoming seminars, click here.