Partners in the Field | Vol. 97

New Jersey State Council on the Arts | Public Meeting | The New Jersey State Council on the Arts will convene a regularly scheduled public meeting on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The meeting agenda will be available on the Council's website one week before the meeting. | Date & Time: October 27, 2026 at 11am | More information and registration.

New Jersey State Council on the Arts | Interested in serving on a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant Panel? | The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is looking for grant review panelists for its Fiscal Year 2028 (FY28) grant program opportunities, including: General Operating Support; General Program Support; Creative Aging Initiative; and the New Jersey Heritage Fellowship. These FY28 applications will be assessed through a review process conducted by panels of grant evaluators. Panelists review and evaluate grant proposals based on the evaluation criteria and rubric detailed in the grant guidelines. | Grant Panelist Interest Form.

New Jersey Historical Commission | 2026 New Jersey History Conference | The 2026 conference will explore the American Revolution in NJ, its impact, and how the history field can capitalize on the 250th. The New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) and RevolutionNJ are pleased to present the 2026 New Jersey History Conference, which will be held tentatively on Friday, October 30, 2026 at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. | Date & Time: October 30, 2026 from 8AM to 4PM | Location: Kean University STEM Building, Union, NJ | More information and registration. 

Nonprofit Development Center of Southern New Jersey | Volunteer Management Hybrid Conference | The Volunteer Management Hybrid Conference is a one-day LIVE Broadcast event for volunteer management professionals happening on October 20th, 2026. VCSJ and NPDCSNJ are hosting the event to allow local professionals to come together for the livestream, discuss the topics, and network with one another. | Date & Time: October 20, 2026 from 10AM to 5:30PM | Location: Rowan College of South Jersey, 1400 Tanyard Road Education and Humanities Building, Sewell, NJ 08080 | More information and registration.

New Jersey Theatre Alliance | Creating Change 2026: Community and Culture Shift | The Creating Change Summit is an annual in-person gathering of the New Jersey arts and culture community focused on learning, inspiration, and action as we move together toward a more just, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist arts sector. Creating Change 2026 will be a space for connection, learning, and practice of foundational skills for cross-sector partnership. The summit sessions will collectively offer a toolkit for building community, solidarity, and collective power in the arts and beyond. This year’s summit will prioritize relational tools that build connection to build collective power and push back against fragmentation, fracture, and isolation used by people and systems that hoard power and perpetuate oppression. The Creating Change Network is a program of New Jersey Theatre Alliance in partnership with ArtPride New Jersey, with a mission to build a more equitable, just, accessible, and anti-racist arts community in New Jersey. Guided by a steering committee of arts professionals and social justice leaders, the Creating Change Network offers ongoing opportunities for learning and collaboration to move the arts sector forward. The Creating Change Network is committed to the long-term endeavor of shifting culture, empowering leaders, sharing strategies, ensuring accountability, and sustaining hope so that individuals and organizations can progress in this work. | Date & Time: October 28, 2026 at 9:30AM | Location: Count Basie Center for the Arts, Vogel Theatre | More information and registration.