Mosh Pit Resource Room

Introducing The Mosh Pit, an Extreme Resource Room for Best Practices
New This Year! Jump In!

Submission Deadline: August 17, 2007
Acceptance Deadline: September 1, 2007

The National Arts Marketing Project Conference is taking a totally new, full-contact approach to best practices by creating a new event! If you have a successful practice to share with your colleagues on a national stage, we invite you to submit a proposal. Don’t miss this opportunity to show off your recent efforts, creativity, and successes!

During this 90 minute time, which replaces the roundtable event, leading marketers from approximately 20 arts organizations will share their successes over the past year, hand out samples of their collateral material, and discuss what’s working in the field today. We’re looking for collateral material, websites, signage, subscription and single ticket promotion, branding efforts, a new campaign, guerrilla marketing or peer to peer tactics, TV and radio spots, enewsletters, anything that is new, now, hot, and exciting—while exemplifying best practices and innovation! The goal is to showcase the exceptional work that is going on in the field and to provide conference participants with direct and informal access to those doing exemplary work.

The Mosh Pit will be the center of attention on Sunday, November 4 from 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. If selected, you will be asked to set up a display of the practice that you are sharing, which may be as simple as displaying brochures or something more elaborate. Then man your table as the rest of the conference participants surf the room looking for ideas.

SELECTION CRITERIA AND PROCESS

Participants may be selected from applications and samples of their work, based on the quality of the work and its practical application to the field. A committee of arts marketers from the NAMP Conference Advisory Committee will review the proposals and recommend the participating marketers.

As a Mosh Pit participant for the 2007 NAMP Conference, you will:

• Be popular! You’ll gain recognition and distinction. NAMP Conferences draw more than 550 arts marketing experts, and they’ll all want to talk to you.
• Be everywhere! In addition to being displayed in the Mosh Pit, participants are highlighted on the Americans for the Arts website in advance of the conference and ArtsMarketing.org website afterward!
• Save a bunch of money! In appreciation of your expertise and service, you will receive conference registration at a discounted rate.

Acceptance notification is September 1, 2007. As a participant, you must confirm your attendance by September 10, 2007, and submit convention registration by September 17, 2007.

Applicants should send current work along with the Mosh Pit proposal and four original print material copies or four CDs of media work or still/moving images of onsite work for review, as well as the application with a description of what you did, why you did it, and how it worked. Materials must be postmarked or received by standard mail by August 17, 2007.