Change Labs Popups: January 2018

Do you run a small business, home based business, or are you thinking about starting a business near Tuba City?

Join us for "Reimagining Tuba City: using creative placemaking to shape our economic future," a ticketed event for the Tuba City community. We'll convene at the Chapter House to enjoy dinner and dessert, listen to guest speaker Zach Mannheimer share how he revitalized and transformed a small US town with creative placemaking, a new tool for rural economic development, and engage in a discussion on how we can support Tuba City small businesses and the broader entrepreneurial community. Here from Eddie Calnimptewa of Terraform LLC on a new major development project in Tuba City to support the creative economy and contribute your ideas to how it should be designed.

5:00pm, Welcome + hamburger steak dinner

5:30pm, Introduction to Zach Mannheimer and Creative Placemaking

6:00pm, Q&A

6:15pm, Introduction to TC8 Development Project and what it means for Tuba City small businesses

6:30pm, Small group discussions on what's needed to drive creative entrepreneurship in Tuba City

7:15pm, Sharing of ideas

7:30pm, Closing

* Your ticket price includes dinner, drinks, dessert and dialogue. Parents are welcome to bring two children, free-of-charge. Please note that we are not able to provide childcare.

This event is sponsored by Change Labs, an initiative supporting Native entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial approaches to the problems and challenges we experience on tribal lands. We unite doers with their peers, specialists in innovation, technology, and business as well as funders, in order to incite collaboration, learning, and positive change in our communities.