The various festivities and coördinated events between the different venues in the Arts District don't all arise spontaneously. Some do, but many are devised and planned by the neighborhood council, an unofficial board that does its best to come up with ways to keep up lively activity in the Arts District and continue to draw in more tourists (and more money). It is the neighborhood council that comes up with most of the festivals, that relays the information to the different establishments in the area so they can participate, and that arranges for neighborhoodwide decorations, posters, and similar paraphernalia.

Each major museum, gallery, and theater and some minor ones have a seat on the neighborhood council, filled usually by someone in the venue's publicity department, but in the case of some smaller venues by the owner themself. There are also a few seats filled by neighborhood residents not affiliated with any particular establishment, new council members are elected by the existing members. The meetings of the neighborhood council are open to the public, but only the council members vote on their resolutions. The council members are not paid for their service on the council, but the council does have a budget to pay for materials and workers to carry out their plans; this money comes from donations from the neighborhood's museums and artistic venues, which see the return they get in publicity from the council's activities as worth the price.