There’s No Place Like Home: Youth Arts & Well-being for Safer Communities
Event Description
For two years, One Nation One Project Gainesville (ONOP GNV) leveraged the power of the arts to bring together youth, artists, community organizations, mental health practitioners, local government, institutions, and neighbors to explore how creativity, connection, and well-being can help build safer, stronger communities.
By design, new multi-sector collaborations were formed, young people lead the way and discovered new opportunities, and together we learned that the lives of young people and communities can be strengthened through arts and well-being engagement.
Join us for an inspiring day of discovery, conversation, and celebration as we share the impact of this collective work, hear from local and national leaders, explore project findings and lessons learned, and experience the incredible artwork created by youth throughout the initiative.
The symposium will feature interactive breakout sessions designed to spark ideas and strengthen community action.
Together, we'll explore:
Practical strategies for using data to inform decisions
Integrating the arts as a pathway to well-being
Building and sustaining cross-sector partnerships
Engaging communities with intention
Capacity building
Most importantly, this gathering is about all of us. It's an opportunity to connect with neighbors and partners, celebrate what's been accomplished, and help shape what's next as we continue building a Gainesville where every young person feels seen, supported, and at home.
Because there's no place like home — and together, we all have a role in making it place where everyone can thrive.
Event Schedule
11:30 am Registration Check-in and Lunch
Enjoy a delicious lunch while connecting with fellow attendees before the afternoon's educational sessions.
12:15 pm Welcome
12:30 pm Keynote Speaker
1:00 to 5:00 pm Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Choose from a variety of engaging breakout sessions designed to spark ideas, encourage conversation, and share practical insights. Attendees will have the opportunity to customize their experience by selecting the sessions that interest them most.
5:00 pm Closing Remarks
5:30 to 6:30 pm Reception and Networking
Wrap up the day with a selection of chef-prepared hors d'oeuvres and refreshments while continuing conversations, making new connections, and reflecting on the day's discussions.
6:30 pm Event Concludes
Keynote Speaker
Clyde Valentin, Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of One Nation/One Project
Who Owns the Change? In this keynote in prose and poetry, Clyde Valentín explores how lasting change takes root when communities help shape the solutions that affect their lives. Drawing on Gainesville as an example, he offers a hopeful vision of shared ownership, cross-sector collaboration, and a future built with - and for - all of us. Clyde Valentín is a Creative Producer, Cultural Strategist, and arts and health leader based in Dallas. He co-founded One Nation/One Project, a national initiative backed by the Doris Duke Foundation that brought 18 cities together around arts and community health, culminating in simultaneous public art premieres on July 27, 2024. Before that, he built Ignite/Arts Dallas at SMU and co-founded Hi-ARTS (the Hip-Hop Theater Festival), the New York–based organization that helped launch the careers of many prominent theater makers today. Valentín also Co-Founded STRESS Magazine a seminal Hip-Hop Arts and Cultural publication in the mid-to—late 1990’s. He is a National Arts Strategies Fellow and Kennedy Center DeVos Institute Fellow, he has reviewed grants for Creative Capital, the Knight Foundation, and NEFA, and served on the boards of Theatre Communications Group and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He currently serves as an At-Large Commissioner for the Office of Arts and Culture in the City of Dallas.
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