The Big Canvas Confab -Rally for Arts and Culture

Rally for Arts and Culture, December 6, 2008
Register today at www.GreatExpectationsNow.com or call our registration hotline, 215-854-5956.

Help us craft an action plan to improve arts and culture throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.

The Big Canvas Confab-A Regional Rally for the Arts
Saturday, December 6th
1-4pm
Radisson Valley Forge Hotel & Convention Center, 1160 First Avenue, King of Prussia PA 1940

Keynote Speaker: Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, First Lady of Pennsylvania

Many important leaders from around the region will be there. Make sure that they hear your views and your voice.

Among the elected officials expected to attend:
Josh Shapiro, Deputy Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
State Senators Rob Wonderling and Andrew Dinniman
Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Hoeffel
Philadelphia City Councilmembers Bill Green and Maria Quinones Sanchez

Also…
Announcing the Arts & Culture Leaders Panel
One part of the afternoon dialogue will be a discussion of The Big Canvas findings by:

Douglas C. Dolan, Executive Director of the Mercer Museum
Julie Hawkins, Vice President of Public Policy for the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Germaine Ingram, Interim Associate Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project
David Thornburgh, Executive Director of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania
Gary Steuer, Chief Cultural Officer of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy

The event is free and open to everyone. Free parking and refreshments.

Free trolley transportation from Center City Philadelphia:
One trolley will leave promptly at 11:45am from the Four Seasons Hotel at One Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103 in Center City.
Another trolley will also leave promptly at 11:45am from The Rotunda at 4012 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 in West Philadelphia.

Call and reserve a space on the trolley, 215-854-5956.
*If you are part of a civic, neighborhood or arts group and can recruit/guarantee 25 people to attend the Confab/Rally,
we will find a way to provide transportation for those guests to and from the event from your location.
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