What is it about this region that you love? If you're like alot of people, it's concerts, festivals, plays, museums, historic sites, parks, libraries and much more. It's the arts and culture.
Great Expectations, the civic project of The Inquirer and the Penn Project for Civic Engagement, has launched a new regional dialogue about the future of arts and culture called the Big Canvas.
The Big Canvas looks to ask YOU what you think. How do you use the region's arts-and-culture assets? How do you value them? What problems or threats do you perceive? What steps would you favor to preserve and enhance local cultural assets? What would you be willing to pay? The goal: A regional cultural strategy that citizens will support because they helped craft it, a strategy that reflects their values.
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
To sign up, visit www.greatexpectations07.com and click on the link for "The Big Canvas," or call 215-854-5956. After you sign up, you'll get more information on format, parking and directions.
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