Changes on tap at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts received considerable media attention late last week, when Chancellor Thomas K. Harden hosted a series of meetings to outline the venue’s future.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
University Weighs Weidner Center Plans
The process of reinvigorating the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts took another step forward Dec. 1 and 2 as UW-Green Bay held meetings with key stakeholders who are looking to the facility’s future.
Joined by consultant Steve Carignan of the Gallagher Bluedorn Center at the University of Northern Iowa, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Thomas K. Harden presented elements of a draft proposal during the sessions, which were attended by Weidner Center Presents board members, donors, ushers, ticket holders and other invited campus and community groups.
Harden presented a draft budget plan and tentative staffing levels for the center, noting that broad-based support — from ticket sales, philanthropy and the University — will be important moving forward.
Next steps for the Weidner include hiring its executive director, completing programming for the 2012-13 season — when the facility will celebrate its twentieth anniversary — and launching marketing and fundraising operations to build toward the goal of a self-supporting facility.
Read more at UW-Green Bay’s Inside Blog: http://blog.uwgb.edu/inside/index.php/log-news/headlines/12/02/university-shares-ideas-for-revitalizing-weidner-center/
Reinvigorating the Weidner: Media Coverage
The future of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts was covered by WLUK Fox 11, interviewing Chancellor Harden and Kate Green, director of programming for the Weidner, in the facility’s Cofrin Family (main) Hall.