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Special Guest: Mark Slavkin, Vice President for Education at the Music Center ׀ Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

Monday, March 21 2011

3:30 -5:30 pm

Los Angeles Philharmonic Board Room

The LA Philharmonic offices (just south of Walt Disney Concert Hall)

151 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

In conversation with Laura Zucker, Mark Slavkin will discuss the challenges of becoming the leader of an organization that had one founding director for more than 20 years and how he has approached providing quality arts education services during one of the deepest fiscal recessions for school districts in memory.

Mr. Slavkin, a former board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District, also serves as a member of the executive committee for Arts for All: the Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, served on the staff of LAAMP, the Los Angeles component of the national Annenberg Challenge, a half billion dollar private effort to improve public schools in the United States and served as Los Angeles Program Officer for the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Find out more about the Music Center Education Division, a national leader in arts education, at http://www.musiccenter.org/education/about.html.

Please RSVP to matthew.tenney@cgu.edu by Friday, March 11^th

Parking information & directions

- Parking is available under Disney Hall on 2^nd Avenue (not 1^st). 

- Enter parking structure on Second Street between Grand and Hope

- Park on level P5 or P6 as close to aisle G as possible

- Take the elevators in aisle G to level 2

- Turn left out of the elevators and check in with security or reception and ask them to call Gretchen at x7597