 We?re excited to announce our featured presenters for Real Places 2023! We couldn?t be more thrilled about the robust programming?both the featured presentations below and the full schedule, which boasts our largest number of sessions and expert speakers to date.
This Wednesday evening (February 1) event will be more like a night out on the town, rather than our typical reception, awards ceremony, and keynote speech. It will include drinks, heavy hors d?oeuvres, the Friends Alliance Awards, and a multi-media performance by Montopolis, a critically acclaimed ensemble that combines live music, storytelling, video, and photography. The group weaves history and poetry into music inspired by the land and the people who have walked upon it. Texas Monthly has called it ?a night of beautiful chamber music, but with electric guitar and the twang of pedal steel giving a Texas kick to the keys and strings.?
During breakfast on Thursday, Caroline Klibanoff will give us a primer on Gen Z, share engagement strategies, and give examples of how organizations can easily adapt these ideas with minimal financial or infrastructural impact.
Klibanoff is managing director of Made By Us, an initiative of the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of American History that includes over 150 institutions across the U.S. With initiatives such as the Civic Season (Juneteenth through July 4th), Made By Us connects Millennials and Gen Z with timely and relevant history to inspire, inform, and ignite civic participation.
At lunch on Thursday, Joe Veneto will share strategies for creating the most-compelling visitor experiences for historic sites, museums, cultural venues, and other destinations.
Veneto is founder and principal of Boston-based Veneto Collaboratory, a consulting and training company that partners with organizations in the tourism and service-related industries to design, develop, and deliver unforgettable visitor experiences. He has helped destination marketing organizations and travel attractions throughout the U.S. create product development strategies that generate economic development and customer loyalty.
Veneto will also present the in-depth pre-conference workshop, ?Building Trust to Design and Develop Meaningful Experiences.?
On Thursday night during the THC Awards Banquet, Sara Bronin will present the challenges facing local preservation efforts across the state, reveal her recent research on local preservation work nationwide, and discuss how Texas fits in.
Bronin is a Mexican American architect, attorney, professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She is a professor at the Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, an associated faculty member of the Cornell Law School, director of the Legal Constructs Lab, and a faculty fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. She was recently nominated by President Biden to chair the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and is pending Senate confirmation.
At breakfast on Friday, a Texas Monthly panel featuring Dan Goodgame, Kelli Phillips, and John Phillip Santos will discuss the concept of journalism being the ?first rough draft of history,? the slippery nature of the historical record, and the implications for the fields of journalism and historic preservation.
Goodgame is editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023. Phillips is executive producer and co-host of the television program ?Texas Country Reporter,? the longest-running independently produced program in the history of American television, which features stories about ordinary Texans who are, in some way, living extraordinary lives. Santos is a writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who has published two memoirs, a book of poetry, and articles in numerous publications, as well as more than 40 documentaries and news programs in 16 countries for CBS and PBS.
During lunch on Friday, our last keynote speaker, Jeff Greene, will present about the importance of building interiors, which are sometimes overlooked.
Greene is executive chairman and founder of EverGreene Architectural Arts, a New York City-based company devoted to the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and architectural art throughout the U.S. Recognized as a foremost expert in both traditional and innovative mural, ornamental plaster, and decorative finish techniques, Greene has spearheaded large-scale conservation, restoration, and new design work on national treasures such as the Chrysler Building, Radio City Music Hall, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Capitol, Grace Church, and King?s Theatre.
Learn more about all these speakers and their sessions, as well as dozens of others, by viewing the full schedule.
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