Love Where You Live. Not only a sentiment we can get behind but the theme for the
Kalamazoo Community Foundation for the coming year.
To introduce it Peter Kageyama, author of "For The Love of Cities" and a co-founder and producer of the Creative Cities Summit, has been invited to address the foundation’s 2012 Community Meeting.
Kageyama will share his ideas about what makes cities lovable, the emotional connections we have with places, and how communities thrive when they include in their community-building toolkit the most powerful of motivators: the human heart.
He will explore why it is important to have a community that people love and how living in such a community affects how people contribute their time and financial resources to benefit their community.
Kageyama has travelled the world learning and speaking about issues of local community development, talent attraction and retention and creative industries development. He is an authority on "bottom up" community development and previously served as president of Creative Tampa Bay, a grassroots community change organization.
Love Where You Live celebrates the benefits to an entire community when people focus their time, talent and resources on local issues, says Carrie Pickett-Erway, Kalamazoo Community Foundation president and CEO.
Kageyama’s visit "builds on the ability of our past speakers to help generate enthusiasm that results in individual and community action," says Pickett-Erway.
The Aug. 21 event at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo is free and open to the public, but
RSVPs are required. You also can call 269-381-4416. Those attending are asked to arrive by 6:45 p.m. The program begins at 7 p.m.
Writer: Kathy Jennings, Second Wave Media
Source: Tom Vance, Kalamazoo Community Foundation
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