S3E18: Uplifting Creative Communities with Philip Casabona

Buying Local Podcast · Apr 1, 2025 · 45m

In this episode of Buying Local, your host Mike Nelson of Five Towers Media interviews Philip Casabona, executive director at LARAC. Tune in to hear them discuss supporting and uplifting the local artist community, curating events, obtaining funding for a non-profit, and much more!

0:08 Introducing Philip Casabona?

0:58 What is LARAC

2:12 Phil’s Role at LARAC

3:08 Scissors on the Business Card

4:22 What’s New this Year?

6:10 160-170 Artists, Food Trucks, and Non-Profits

7:14 Make Ideas Tangible

8:24 Driving Traffic

12:30 Change in Downtown Glens Falls

14:38 Vendors: What to Expect?

16:16…