Name: Through Your Lens: Industry Mixer & Kickoff
Start: 2026-06-08T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-08T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 3 Dots Downtown

Through Your Lens: Industry Mixer & Kickoff

Happy Valley & surrounding counties' creative community is coming together and you're invited.
Join us for an industry mixer and kickoff event for Through Your Lens: Happy Valley's first statewide community film and video challenge culminating with a film screening and artist showcase at The State Theatre during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, July 8–12.
This is a free, open conversation for anyone at the intersection of music, film, content creation, and local business. Whether you're just starting out or you've been doing this for years, there's a seat at the table for you.
3 Dots has become one of the most important gathering spaces for the creative community in Happy Valley and the surrounding region, a place where artists, musicians, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, and community builders from Centre County and neighboring counties come together, collaborate, and find each other. It's not just a venue. It's a connector.
Hosting the Through Your Lens kickoff at 3 Dots is a statement about what this challenge is rooted in: the idea that the creative economy of this region is stronger when it's built together, across county lines, across disciplines, and across generations. If you've ever felt like Happy Valley's creative scene was scattered and hard to find, 3 Dots is where it comes into focus.
An artist or musician who wants to get your music placed in film, TV, ads, or live events or who's interested in opening for touring acts and building a real performance career
A filmmaker or content creator who wants to collab
A business or brand that uses music in your marketing and wants to stop worrying about copyright strikes, DMCA claims, and licensing lawsuits
A student or aspiring music industry professional curious about how a campus record label connects Happy Valley to the global music industry and how you can be part of it
Anyone in the Happy Valley creative ecosystem from State College to Bellefonte, Philipsburg to Lock Haven, Altoona to Huntingdon and everywhere in between who wants to meet the people building something here
When local businesses and organizations support and promote the creative scene, they're not just being good community partners they're investing in the visibility and economic vitality of the region itself. A thriving arts and music community makes Happy Valley more attractive to talent, tourism, and the next generation of entrepreneurs. It keeps creative professionals here instead of leaving for bigger cities. And it generates the kind of authentic regional identity that no marketing budget can manufacture.
Through Your Lens is one piece of that. The film screening at Arts Fest puts locally made videos in front of 125,000+ visitors during one of Centre County's highest-traffic weeks of the year. Sponsors and supporters are part of that story named, credited, and associated with something the community will be proud of.
If your business or organization has a stake in what Happy Valley looks like, sounds like, and feels like to the world this conversation is for you.
Space is limited. Register via the link to secure your spot.
Can't make it in person? Join remotely via Zoom link provided upon registration.