Art Matters Symposium Series: Theatre and Theare Criticism in Middle Georgia
Channel: Macon Arts Alliance
Date: 01/02/2014

Art Matters: Engaging the Community through Embedded Arts Journalists held the third in a series of six public symposia on the role of criticism and arts journalism in fostering an informed and engaged community.  "Theater and Theater Criticism in Middle Georgia" was held at Middle Georgia State College's Professional Services Center, Room 211, on the Macon Campus, January 28 at 11 a.m. The event was free and open to the public and hosted by the Department of Media, Culture, and the Arts in the School of Liberal Arts with support from the Middle Georgia State College Foundation.

The discussion at this symposium focused on the role of theaters in Middle Georgia and how local media covers theater and theatric productions. Featured panelists will be Sydney Chalfa, Jim Crisp, Larry Fennelly, Fred Hardin, John Jones and Adam Ragusea. Art Matters Critic-in-Residence Steve Murray will moderate the discussion.

Art Matters is an arts journalism partnership of Macon Arts Alliance and Mercer's Center for Collaborative Journalism that seeks to engage the community through embedded arts journalists. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works. Matching funding provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.