An Informal Voter Education Event with Arts for LA
Tuesday, October 20 // 5pm
Los Angeles Performance Practice hosts Cordelia Istel, Director of Organizing – Arts for LA, for an informal voter education event! This digital gathering will equip our community with crucial information about how to be an effective arts voter in 2020. Join us to learn about issues likely to impact the creative sector, including local elections and city, county, and statewide ballot initiatives.
Los Angeles Performance Practice is hosting this event to promote voter education and registration. This event is not intended to provide official endorsements for candidates or to influence election results.
Free Registration Required
Cordelia Istel (Director of Organizing @Arts for LA) is an organizer, educator, and administrator with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of cultural programming and social justice. Before joining the Service Employees International Union as an External Organizer, she served as Director of Programs for a non-profit theater company engaging climate justice in urban environments, Manager of the Met Opera’s Education Department, and also helped create the United States Department of Arts & Culture – a national network of activists using arts-based strategies to address urgent issues facing their communities. In addition to her advocacy, Cordelia continues to make performance-based work and has toured/presented in LA, NYC, SF, Mexico City, Paris, and Brussels. She is a graduate of Yale University (degrees in Political Science and Theater Studies) as well as the California Institute of the Arts (School of Theater).