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The I-DOC team proudly announces the public release of its final report on its process and its discoveries at the National Performing Arts Convention in Pittsburgh. As described elsewhere on this web site, the I-DOC project had four primary objectives surrounding the historic convening of performing arts professionals in June 2004:

1. To create a record of the ''big'' ideas that emerged in Pittsburgh and a sense of how those ideas might augment practice and policy in the non-profit performing arts;
2. to track and capture key issues, challenges, and concerns of performing arts managers, supporters, advocates, artists, and others as they gathered for this historic convening;
3. to test a new model for tracking issues and providing useful feedback to participants in convenings of this kind; and,
4. to bring together the academy and the working world of the arts, by applying the skills, methods, and insights of one to the conversations and concerns of the other.

Our deepest thanks go to the project sponsors, the unique collaborative of service organizations and their leadership that forged the National Performing Arts Convention (particularly to Marc Scorca), the participants and professionals that gave their time to respond to our inquiries, and especially to the astoundingly insightful and tireless I-DOC team.

We consider this document the beginning of a conversation. We welcome your comments, ideas, criticisms, and suggestions to help us inform any future efforts, and to tease out the dense web of themes and ideas that this project seeks to capture.

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