Benton County Cultural Survey

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. You can print out this page and mail it to the address below or download a word document and email it.

BENTON COUNTY CULTURAL SURVEY
The Benton County Cultural Trust Planning Committee is part of the state of Oregon's Cultural Trust. We are collecting information about the current cultural activities in our county and a vision for the future in order to develop the Benton County Cultural Plan. This survey will give us an overview of the existing cultural resources that are being met, those that need to be expanded and those that need to be developed. For our purposes CULTURE includes ARTS, HERITAGE, AND HUMANITIES. The Trust's long term goal is intended to create wide and enthusiastic participation in the cultural life of Oregon. Please be as detailed or as brief as you want and feel free to use additional paper if needed. Include your name and address if you choose. Please note that any personal information given to us will be held in strictest confidence. Thank you. We value your input.

1) Are you aware of any arts, heritage, or humanities groups or activities that have been OMITTED from the attached draft? Please add here with contact name and number.

2) Which cultural organizations or activities are inadequate at present in Benton County, and should be expanded or made more available?

3) What do you think the cultural life of Benton County should be like 20 years in the future? What organizations or activities should we be establishing now, so that they might be flourishing then?

4)Circle to identify respondent
	1) I live in a) an unincorporated area b) a settlement of fewer than 500 people c) a settlement between 500 and 20,000 people d) a settlement of more than 20,000 people

	2) I am a) male b) female

	3) I am a) under 18 b) between 18 and 35 c) between 35 and 55 d) over 55

Please mail your completed form to: Benton County Cultural Plan, Benton County Commission 408 SW Monroe, Corvallis, OR 97333 or email to: wcjssjs"13%">
Benton County Cultural Coalition Planning Committee Draft List of Cultural Events, Groups, Activities, Historical Sites, Venues July 13, 2003
	116 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Company B 4-H Abner Kravitz Quintet Advertising Autumn Leaves Studio African Drumming/dance (Odd Fellows Hall) Albany Dance Academy Albany Civic Theater Albany Farmers Market Amadan American Field Service American Business Women's Association American Association of University Women ArtCentric ArtCentric Docents Artrageous Tours Avery Park Bald Hill Be Proactive! Benton County Fair Benton County Genealogical Society Benton County Historical Society Benton County Historical Society Museum Blind Rhino (band) CALYX Celebrate Corvallis Celebration of Bilingual Literacy Central Valley Voices (Barbershop) Central Park Chamber Music Corvallis Chintimini Chamber Music City of Corvallis Community Book Club Conservatory for Music Education Contra Dance Corvallis Academy of Ballet Corvallis Art Center Corvallis Art Guild Corvallis Belly Dance Guild Corvallis Community Band Corvallis Community Theatre Corvallis Farmers Market Corvallis Folklore Society Corvallis Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild Corvallis Junior Youth Symphony Corvallis Music Teachers Association Corvallis Parks and Recreation Department Corvallis Preparatory Orchestra Corvallis Public School Foundation Corvallis Public Schools Corvallis Recorder Circle Corvallis Repertory Singers Corvallis Senior Center Ballroom Dance Corvallis Senior Center Creative Writing Corvallis Senior Center Sing-a-long Corvallis Square Dance Club Corvallis Squares Corvallis Youth Symphony Corvallis-Benton County Public Library Foundation Corvallis-OSU Music Association Corvallis-OSU Symphony Society Courthouse Preservation Committee Cribbage Club Crossroads International da Vinci Days Daughters of Cybele DC-Aviation Museum Earthsongs Elementary Strings Program Eleven Eyes (band) Endex Poetry Bulletin Board Fairbanks Gallery (OSU) Fall Festival Fiechter House Finley National Wildlife Refuge Fort Hoskins Citizens Advisory Committee Fourth Sunday at Good Samaritan Church Friends of the Library Fusion Ball (band) Future Sunz (band) G-Sector (band) Gallery Gazelle Gaylord House Get Lit Golden Light Gallery Goose Quill Guild Grassroots Reading Group Greenbelt Land Trust Heart of the Valley Children's Choir Heart of the Valley Smocking Guild Hill City Bus (band) Hilltop Big Band Historic Resources Committee (Philomath) Historic Preservation Advisory Board (Corvallis) Historic Resources Commission (Benton County) Historic Mural in Monroe Hoolyeh Folkdancers Illustrated Garden Gallery Innovative Business Promotions Jubilate Kalanjali Corvallis Indian Arts Academy Lakefront Entertainment Center Linn Benton Arts Council Linn Benton Community College Living Rock Studio (Brownsville) Madison Avenue Task Force Magic Barrel (reading) Majestic Theatre Management Marys River Quilt Guild Mid-Willamette Photo-Arts Guild Mid-Willamette Woodworkers Guild Monad Monroe After School Art Programs Monroe Community Museum Music For All Neal Gladstone and Company Opera Theatre Corvallis Oregon Folklife Festival Oregon Folklife Heritage Foundation Oregon State Libraries Oregon State University OSU Foundation - Art About Agriculture OSU Foundation - Oregon Dance OSU Heritage Foundation OSU Press Peace Choir Pegasus Frame Studio and Gallery Philomath Frolic and Rodeo Poetry Enterprises Inc. Poodle de Ville and Mud Pie Trio Pow-wow Prism Pro Musica Reader's Theater Red, White and Blues Festival Regional School of Ballet Renaissance Craft Fair River Rhythms Rotary Shrewsbury Renaissance Fair Sister City Association Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation Springboard Productions Starker Arts Park Storytelling Fest Summit Talent Show The Critique Group Thriving Theater Valley Tix Very Special Arts for Disabilities (is it in Benton Co?) Vistas and Vineyards Where Its @ Community Fair Wild Rose Gallery Willamette Ceramics Guild Willamette Chamber Orchestra Willamette Literary Guild Willamette Park Windmill Center Wonderkeepers Story Tellers Guild Youth Dance Project

General categories that we need to get the names of, decide on format, etc:
	Historical houses and civic buildings Ethnic restaurants theaters dance groups OSU and LBCC departments (music (noon concerts, recitals), literature (visiting author series), craft center, art, history, speech, theatre, dance, cultural centers) garden clubs library activities, including children's story hours church choirs art galleries poets groups writers groups book groups businesses where music is performed businesses where art is displayed musicians (recorder groups, bands, jam sessions) bridges cemetaries ceremonial sites historical buildings state parks trails craft businesses (JoAnne's, Creative Crafts and Frame Shoppe, the ceramic place downtown) signs/banners/awnings auto body painting and decorating businesses that sell supplies (books, photo, art, etc) church performances, art shows computer services, including web design businesses involved in the arts, such as R3 Engraving, Edge newspaper contests for writing and art private schools music teachers dance teachers art teachers local industry connections (Blodgett - logging)