{"id":802409,"date":"2019-12-17T17:59:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376146"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:59:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:59:52","slug":"breckenridge-creative-arts-and-breckenridge-music-set-to-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-creative-arts-and-breckenridge-music-set-to-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge Creative Arts and Breckenridge Music set to merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Brf-BCAMerge-SDN-122019-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Effective Dec. 31, local nonprofits Breckenridge Creative Arts and Breckenridge Music will merge into one organization. A new board with equal BreckCreate and Breck Music members will be formed while Breckenridge Creative Arts and Breckenridge Music will retain their names.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, the merger allows them to pool resources as they continue to provided the same artistic services \u2014 such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art\/\">Breckenridge International Festival of Arts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival\/\">Breckenridge Music Festival<\/a> \u2014 as before.<\/p>\n<p>Incoming BreckCreate President and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-creative-arts-names-new-ceo\/\">Matthew Neufeld<\/a> will join the group in January 2020. Tamara Park, currently the executive director of Breck Music, will continue her leadership of Breck Music and assume a broadened role as a senior leader in BreckCreate.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth organizations offer so much to Breckenridge and have unique strengths, while their goals align,\u201d Summit County Commissioner Elisabeth Lawrence said in the release. \u201cThey have partnered on numerous arts projects in recent years, so it just makes sense to combine talents as one organization. It will eliminate duplication of effort and focus resources on programs and community interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is a&nbsp;current member of the Breck Music board and past town council liaison to BreckCreate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that (BreckCreate) and Breck Music have decided to combine operations,\u201d council member Gary Gallagher said in the release. \u201cIt is not only in their collective interest but also in the interest of the town of Breckenridge. The town would like to see more year-round quality programming for residents and guests, which means more activity in the Riverwalk Center and Arts District Campus. We believe this move will support those priorities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-creative-arts-and-breckenridge-music-set-to-merge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Effective Dec. 31, local nonprofits Breckenridge Creative Arts and Breckenridge Music will merge into one organization. A new board with equal BreckCreate and Breck Music members will be formed while Breckenridge Creative Arts and Breckenridge Music will retain their names. According to a news release, the merger allows them to pool resources as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 06:33:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}