OPEN TALKS - Can Artists Achieve Financial and Artistic Independence in the Age of Bitcoin?
Being an artist is perpetually hard and comes at huge financial risk. Worse off much of the work they do and the things they create financially benefit others more than it does themselves. Is there a better way for artists to sustain themselves
This week's interactive community conversation explores the ideas that allow us to trace a path from living as an artist inside the fiat economy to building Bitcoin-native patronage, and asks what happens to creativity as we move from industrial-age arts systems into an information age with digitized sound money.
OUR FACILITATOR
Dion Wilson is a former professional ballet dancer with sixteen years on company stages and twenty-five years in the industry, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Philadanco, and Disney's The Lion King. He is a teacher, personal trainer, and the creator of the fitness class DBarre. He founded Bitcoin for the Arts, a New York 501(c)(3) building Bitcoin-native patronage to support creators across visual arts, theater, dance, music, writing, storytelling, and film.
WHO'S IT FOR?
Idea people. Founders. Builders. Creatives. Researchers. The Curious. And their Supporters
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FORMAT
Our format explores ideas together through our diverse backgrounds, while building relationships and community through the process. We want you to talk to each other, instead of just being talked at.
5:30PM - Settle in, grab a drink and some food at the bar, and meet some new people before we start our event.
6:00PM - Our conversation begins with our facilitator presenting the knowledge and context for the conversation along the way. The conversation between attendees will explore from surface level understandings, to deep implications and future iterations.
7:30PM - Meet and connect with new people, catch up with people you haven't seen in a while, discover all the different ways you overlap. And then just hang out, grab a drink, play some pool or ping pong! Or stay for the band afterwards!
Our desire is to be the antithesis of NYC's corporate panel and transactional networking culture. We aim to create a vibrant idea and build space in NYC that focuses on the passion and values beyond the money and the hustle.
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ABOUT COHORT
Cohort is a space and home for ideas, and the people who think about them, create new ones, and build things from them. Many of us are founders, builders, artists, researchers, and their supporters here in NYC.
Our goal is to turn the city into a campus after college.
We hold idea and discussion events, coworking events for support and accountability for those building and creating things, and pure social events build genuine relationships and community.
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