Dawn Tucker, the Director of Vision and Impact for the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, will present on community efforts to create an open air theater and conservatory which will help address the need for additional performing arts venues and spaces here in Flagstaff. She will discuss a potential multi-phase project intended to provide needed and sophisticated venue space for Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival and numerous other performing arts groups in the community. 

The City's 2025 community input process and report, "Art, Culture, Science and the Future in Flagstaff", identified the lack of available and cost-effective performing art space as a key issue for the creative community. This echoed previous studies which identified the lack of sophisticated and available space as a challenge to Flagstaff and as less present here than in other communities of similar size. Using Bed, Board, and Beverage — Arts and Science funding, the City currently supports multiple arts focused non-profits and venues and continues to seek ways to further enhance the community's arts and science infrastructure. 

The presentation will be focused on a specific project currently being envisioned and advanced which would assist in addressing this issue.