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SYNDICATE CONTENTThe Big Canvas
A regional dialogue on arts and culture
Nearly everyone who's attended a Great Expectations forum in the last 18 months agreed on one point: One of the best things about living in the
It is a rich array of assets. But here's a problem: Many of the institutions that preserve and present the region's arts and culture are cash-poor. They struggle to survive from year to year. For 20 years, the region has talked about creating a strategy to preserve and enhance its arts and culture. Many American cities have one. But none has emerged here.
The Big Canvas will take a new approach: Ask the region's citizens how they use its arts and culture assets, how they value them, what steps they'd favor to preserve and enhance them, and how they'd be willing to pay for all this.
The goal: A regional cultural strategy that citizens will support because they helped craft it, a strategy that reflects their values. The yield from this initiative will be presented to political leaders at a Big Canvas Confab in the fall.
Help us paint the Big Canvas well. The project begins in July, with a round of five citizen forums around the region. We invite and urge you to help us get the project off to a rousing start. The more voices and viewpoints that are heard, the stronger the end result will be.
Each forum will begin with registration and refreshments at 6:30 p.m. and will run until 9:30. We very much hope to see you at one of the following events:
July 8 - The Michener Museum in Doylestown
July 16 - The Inquirer's suburban headquarters, the Schuylkill Printing Plant in West Conshohocken
July 23 - People's Light and Theater in Malvern
July 24 - Villanova University in Villanova
July 30 - Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia
Advance sign up is required. To sign up online, you must be logged in to the Great Expectations Web site. Log in or create a new account, then return to this page and select the event you'd like to attend.
