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TOGETHER


When you sit in on a dizzying number of industry education sessions, as I did recently covering IAVM’s Performing Arts Managers Confer- ence (PAMC), GuestX, Severe Weather Preparedness, and Academy         lines from one session leading into the next. That is not to say that the sessions are not meaningful, relevant, and often entertaining, but sometimes coming away with that one “aha” is not always automatic. No more. Toward the end of the second day of sessions at PAMC in Chica-


go, during a program entitled “Make the Arts Great Again: The Role of the PAC in Uncertain Times,” I listened as a distinguished panel - sociate professor and arts and administration director at the University of Oregon. Ted DeDee, CFE, is a respected industry veteran who knows a thing


or two about the arts as well as uncertain times. DeDee serves as chief        Wisconsin, and came prepared for the panel with pages of meticu- lous notes on which to expound. When talking about how PACs have changed not just in uncertain times but overall in recent years, DeDee said something that caught my attention. “We have always been known as performing arts centers,” he said. “I think that wording has always carried a connotation. Really, we are performing arts communities.” Aha!


DeDee struck the right chord and before we knew it the comments


from the panel as well as discussion from the audience centered on how PACs do in fact serve as communities. To that end, PACs share the spirit of community with their brethren from other sectors. Think about it for just a minute. When you go to a play, symphony, ballet or orchestra performance, you arrive as a community of zero before the doors open to a certain capacity once the curtain raises and the show begins. You are in the midst of like-minded individuals who arrived to see the same brand of entertainment that you paid for. You are suddenly a community of thousands. The obvious translation works for stadiums, arenas, convention centers, and other venues. Guests enter these facilities and sudden-


4 Facility Manager Magazine


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ly become large communities for which the venue is responsible for ensuring safety and if all goes well a great time that results in repeat business and positive word-of-mouth. This issue of Facility Manager magazine has an underlying theme


of community that I know you will enjoy reading, beginning with the 30th anniversary celebration of the Venue Management School (VMS) at Oglebay (P30). Now you talk about a community that has come together for three decades! Many of the comments you will read from both early-year veterans of the school as well as relative newcom- ers touches on community and making friends for life. We also wrap up Part 2 of the Exhibition and Meetings Safety and Security Initiative (EMSSI) feature (P34). The initiative is applicable to convention centers, a place where people come from points close and distant for trade shows, conventions and exhibitions. Again, a commu- nity of like-minded people come for a car show, a home and garden show, an association convention, an industry meeting. Words do not even need to be spoken amongst patrons at these events once they are inside the doors. Everyone is there because of a common and shared bond. Freelance writer Kelly Pedone takes us through a feature about en-


ergy management that should give the entire IAVM community an opportunity to realize savings in their venues (P37). Saving is fun on an individual basis but even more rewarding when it is shared as a community.


It is common to hear venue managers discuss part of the reason for


their building’s existence as to provide an economic stimulus to their community, to bring their community together to participate in specif- ic events, or simply to be stewards of their community. In fact, the word community had almost become a buzzword or cli-


ché in my mind until I heard the way that Ted DeDee expressed it. His interpretation is one that should be heeded throughout the industry. Sure, events are a challenge, but everyone in this business knows


that the rewards far outweigh those obstacles that are inevitable and will arise. But to steal from another cliché, just think of the community you have made happy at the end of the day when they leave your venue, having arrived as strangers but departing as one big, happy community. FM


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