Arts Partnerships: We Wish you a Merry…

We Wish you a Merry Holiday season – Community Arts Sponsorships & Partnerships at InkLinkNews.

Symphony New Hampshire’s collaboration with InkLInkNews and especially the Arts and Culture coverage has been a joy for all involved. From our ability to highlight individual musicians to our coverage of concerts, we have increased awareness of professional symphonic performance in New Hampshire.

This relationship has also created opportunities for young people across all of New Hampshire to participate in programming that might not otherwise have been possible. The creation of the NH Concerto was an idea that began with the Symphony and amplified through a season’s long series of interviews with student participants from Keene, Dartmouth, Plymouth and UNH.

Wes Coffin, A Maine native attending UNH, received coverage back at his hometown newspaper. Kyle Cook found his friends and ours mingling online during his senior recital this year. Each received more positive and expanded visibility for themselves and their school’s programs than would otherwise have happened.

The digital connection and reach of InkLink has made a difference, ongoing. Curated Digital Connection as a mainstay, spreads valuable resume material, improves internet search results, and creates more viable digital imprints for the future.  All of this happened because Symphony New Hampshire’s mission of education and student opportunity aligned well with the community and solutions focused journalism driven here at InkLinkNews, Arts, and Culture.

Symphony NH’s support of our Performing Arts Partnership has also expanded the InkLink’s Inkubator program. Publisher Carol Robidoux’s foresight launched it years ago and recently, one of her first generation “graduates,” Bob Costa, wrote in supporting the incubator:

“Carol Robidoux’s lifelong commitment to journalism, education, and the development of young people has shaped so many careers, including my own. Her founding of a youth section in my hometown newspaper gave me my start, way back when I was a teenager, and I’m eternally grateful for her selfless efforts. I doubt I’d be writing today if I didn’t have that chance.” – Robert Costa, # 1 New York Times bestselling co-author of ‘Peril’ with Bob Woodward.

Today’s Inkubator cohort has Dan Szczesny and Uma covering rock bands and T Harmon and me collaborating on orchestral, classical and jazz performances.  If you want to join us as a mentor or have the ability to fund and help expand what we do, we’d love to hear from you!

Reach out to me and let’s explore additional opportunities to strengthen our community in 2025.

Why are the Arts important?

Deanna Hoying, Executive Director, SymphonyNH, wrote that “New Hampshire’s creative economy generated $3.4 billion in annual economic activity (the most recent data available is from 2022). This equates to 3.2% of the state’s GDP. New Hampshire’s arts and cultural organizations create jobs, attract tourists, and support other local businesses.”

More than three billion dollars that stays right here in New Hampshire! This represents a large number of people participating in cultural activities that bring people and communities together. Activities that engage all ages and all friendship and family types in ways that connect, educate, and gather, rather than isolate us. InkLinkNews is grateful to the many friends and businesses that recognize the importance of this often unsung work of community building.

Many thanks to Symphony NH for their leadership role that is making a difference across our state. As we enter 2025, it will be the Arts that will open new lines of communications across Geo – Political & Social boundaries, keep our communities connected and provide much needed calm.

Please join us.

Happy Holidays to all.