Reimagining Rural Roadshow

Reimagining Rural is hitting the road!

The Roadshow's vision is to bring rural community leaders, volunteers, trailblazers, and sparkplugs together with regional and statewide agencies, organization and professionals under one roof.

Agenda

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

• 11:30-1:00 Registration at the Custer County Event Center, Eastern Montana Fairgrounds
• 1:00-5:00 Local Tour
  • Tour stops will include:
    • Vintage & Rustic downtown business
    • OneHealth, Historic Milligan Building Renovation
    • Custer County Event Center, Eastern Montana Fairgrounds
    • Ag Advancement Center, Miles Community College

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

• 8:30 Registration
• 9:00 Roadshow Welcome
• 9:30 Rubber Meets the Road Panel - Lessons Learned
  • Small town successes take vision, dedication, teamwork, boldness and a little grit.  This is where the rubber meets the road.  You'll hear what it takes to move a project from idea into action from folks who are getting it done in Montana's small towns and from resource folks who can help make it happen.
  • Panel includes:  Sandra Jones, Mayor of Roundup; Sabre Moore, Executive Director, Carter County Museum (Ekalaka);  Vaughn Zenko, Executive Director, SMART (Baker);  Jason Seyler, Montana Department of Environmental Quality; Krys Holms, Montana Arts Council
• 10:30 Community Coffee, We're Better Traveling Together
• 10:45 Rural Capacity - What Does This Mean In Our Small Towns?
  • This session will focus on understanding what rural capacity means and how do we use this awareness, knowledge and insight to guide future discussions, planning, and projects.
  • Speaker Kris Smith, Headwaters Economics.
• 11:45 Lunch & Road Show Pit Stops
• 1:00 Strategic Networking
• 2:30 Break
• 2:45 Mapping Out the Road Ahead
  • Where do we go from here?  Good question.  A guided conversation about building capacity, creating partnerships, and inspiring our small towns to dream big.
• 3:15 Road Show Wrap-Up

Location

Custer County Event Center, Eastern Montana Fairgrounds, Miles City, Montana

Date

September 17-18, 2024

Cost

$50/person, which includes:

• meals (breakfast and lunch) and snacks on 9/18
• event experience and all sessions

What to expect

This event will be an opportunity to connect with fellow rural vitality leaders and hear from experts who are doing the work and making a difference in Rural Montana.

• Hear from expert panels on subjects such as housing, childcare, and beautification projects.
• Collaborate through activities meant to inform, inspire and result in steps to take action in your community.

Join Us!

Register Here

Registration will close on September 13, 2024.

Thank you to our Sponsors!

Rural Trailblazer:  Beyond the WeatherPartner:

For questions on how to be involved as a sponsor, please contact Jennifer Anderson.