Project Timetable

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Q4 2023: Authenticate District partnerships and pilot District programming

Q3 2023: Build out fund development action plan

Q2 2023: Distribute RFP to establish District management structure

Q1 2023: Adjust as necessary, per County review

• March 24: Kelly presents Arts District update to MRA
• March 24: Committee reviews updated Plan (Mar 24, 2023 draft) to be presented to MRA (see today's committee agenda) Watch this meeting HERE

Q4 2022: Engage property owners in Arts District progress, next steps, and deliver working draft for County review

• December 2022: Deliver Wailuku Arts District Management Plan draft to County of Maui for feedback to apply in 2023 (Dec 2, 2022 draft)
• November 16: Property Owners Huaka'i on Da Bee (Erin's presentation + Kelly's presentation)
• ​October 27: Committee creates agenda for Arts District Property Owners Huaka'i on Da Bee + reviews Management Plan draft (Meeting agenda)

Property Owners Huaka'i

Q3 2022: Identify Arts District broader goals: research & development

• September 21-23: 68th Annual International Downtown Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada
• August 29: Human Concerns & Parks Committee hears Resolution 22-143 supporting the designation of Wailuku Town as an arts district. (Deferred)
• August 26: MRA Meeting Presentation 
• August 25: Committee welcomes guest speakers (Melissa J. Kim, Director - Community Impact, Local Initiatives Support Corporation; and Christopher Kaui Morgan, Vice President of Programming for Maui Arts & Cultural Center; Artistic Director of Christopher K. Morgan & Artists; Director of Dance Omi) re how the arts can help address revitalization without gentrification (Watch)
• July 22: MRA Meeting Presentation (meeting rescheduled/ no quorum)
• July 21: Committee meets to A) Establish Wailuku Arts District values; B) Review the Plan's revised goals & objectives (per our community feedback collection); and C) confirm Q3 team-building event (Option 1: Landlord huakaʻi; Option 2: carousel site visits to tighter spaces, e.g. Sabado Studio, Friends & Faire, Paradise Now, Coffee Attic) Agenda
• July 19: HVCB Member Ho'ike

Q2 2022: Determine mechanism for community driven situational analysis (exhibit market demand with metrics/ guarantee of use via interviews, surveys, focus groups, meetings, + outline specific needs for investment: space mgmt, marketing, funds, maintenance)
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• June 24: Kelly presents Arts District update to MRA
• June 23: Committee reviews community-driven SWOT results, revises our initial analysis with top priorities, and, schedules our next site visit (agenda) Watch Maggie's survey summary presentation HERE. Download the PDF. 
• June 14: Arts District Huaka'i on Da Bee. Each space presents mission, facilities, assets, limitations, "one big dream," and historic accomplishment; empowering each of us with accurate context about District partners. 
• May 20: Focus group hosted in Wailuku + Hālau of ʻŌiwi Art Open House held at Maui Academy of Performing Art's Promenade Food Court. Arts District survey promoted at ST*BA + Wailuku Live information tables. 
• May 19: Committee members share updates on respective SWOT analysis market research mechanisms and schedule upcoming SWOT-related activities through the end of Q2. Discussion of trends, gaps, and revision of goals & objectives. (agenda) (prelim results) (REVISED: Online survey | PDF | QR code flyer)
• May 11: Community sentiment/ SWOT survey goes live. Committee to collect preliminary data between now and our May 19 meeting, then we will make any necessary revisions. (PRELIM​: Online survey | PDF | QR code flyer)
• April 22: Kelly presents Arts District update to MRA
• April 21: Committee meeting (agenda) (Kelly reviews needs, shares outline + pukas: review District map, ID key players, conduct initial SWOT and timeline/ plan to collect key data)
• April 7: County of Maui follow-up meeting re Wailuku Arts District Resolution

Arts District Huaka'i

Q1 2022: ID collective objective and benefits of establishing the Wailuku Arts District + recruit Wailuku Arts District Plan Advisory Committee
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• March 28: Councilmember Yuki Lei Sugimura meeting (with Deputy Director of Council Services David Raatz; Legislative Analysts Alison Stewart and Paige Greco and Planning & Development Chief Erin Wade) re Resolution to officially designate the Wailuku Arts District
• March 23: Wailuku Live meeting re evolution to Arts District web presence for County of Maui
• March 16: Wailuku Performing Arts Alliance meeting (agenda) to recruit Plan Committee members
• February 28: Meeting with Wailuku Community Association President & Treasurer Kristin Holmes re a "need to focus on the wonderfulness of the people that are making art that reflects this place."
• February 3: County of Maui meeting re the Plan's primary goal: "Create a strategy to coalesce interested players under an umbrella called Wailuku Arts District that ultimately leads to coordinated facility + public space planning, management and maintenance."

November 9, 2021: SMALL TOWN * BIG ART (County of Maui + Hale Hōʻikeʻike at the Bailey House/ Maui Historical Society + Maui Public Art Corps) is awarded a grant through the National Endowment for the Arts to: A) sustain and develop place-based, culturally rooted public art collaborations in Wailuku; B) design public art activities in up to three new Maui County neighborhoods; and C) deliver a public art master plan for the County of Maui, which will include an arts district management plan for the town of Wailuku.