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An email from ArtsQuest: New Pennsylvania budget will hurt the local arts.
Posted on 2009.05.08 at 14:14
Help us save funding for the arts!
The Pennsylvania Senate approved their version of the budget for FY 09-10 (SB850).
SB 850, includes zero funding for Pennsylvania Council on the Arts arts grants.
If the Senate version prevails, beginning July 1, 2009 there will be no arts grants in Pennsylvania. This will directly impact the Lehigh Valley and all its great art and cultural programs.
Below is just a short list of some of the organizations that will be deeply impacted by this budget cut:
-Arts Community of Easton
-ArtsQuest
-Bach Choir
-Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission
-Godfrey Dainels
-Illicks Mill Partnership
-Lehigh University
-Lafayette College
-DeSales University
-Moravian College Music Institute
-Allentown Art Museum
-Allentown Symphony
-Banana Factory
-Baum School of Art
-Civic Theatre of Allentown
-Liberty Bell Shrine
-Mock Turtle Marionette Theatre
-PA Shakespeare Festival
-Musikfest
-Celtic Classic
-SouthSide Film Festival
-PA Youth Theatre
-PA Youth Ballet
-MayFair
-Lehigh Valley Arts Council
...and so many more
Cultural arts really enhance the quality of life in the Lehigh Valley. It is so important that we let the Senate know that arts funding is important to us and to the economic vitality of the state.
Please contact your state senator today to let him/her know that $14 million for arts grants is important to you. If you wrote to your senator last week, give them a call today to tell them:
-You don't support SB 850 with zero funding for arts grants and
-You would like arts grants funded at the $14 million level.
You can find out contact information for your senator by visiting our Legislative Action Center at http://capwiz.com/artsusa/pa/state/main/
Last of all, forward this e-mail to family, friends, co-workers, etc. and ask that they also contact their legislators in support of state arts funding. I'm singing to the choir, I know, but what a dreary state we would live in without the arts. If funding ceases to exist, that just may happen.
Thanks for all of your help with this important campaign.
If you have any questions, please contact Citizens for the Arts jlh@citizensfortheartsinpa.org or by phone at 717-234-0959.
The Pennsylvania Senate approved their version of the budget for FY 09-10 (SB850).
SB 850, includes zero funding for Pennsylvania Council on the Arts arts grants.
If the Senate version prevails, beginning July 1, 2009 there will be no arts grants in Pennsylvania. This will directly impact the Lehigh Valley and all its great art and cultural programs.
Below is just a short list of some of the organizations that will be deeply impacted by this budget cut:
-Arts Community of Easton
-ArtsQuest
-Bach Choir
-Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission
-Godfrey Dainels
-Illicks Mill Partnership
-Lehigh University
-Lafayette College
-DeSales University
-Moravian College Music Institute
-Allentown Art Museum
-Allentown Symphony
-Banana Factory
-Baum School of Art
-Civic Theatre of Allentown
-Liberty Bell Shrine
-Mock Turtle Marionette Theatre
-PA Shakespeare Festival
-Musikfest
-Celtic Classic
-SouthSide Film Festival
-PA Youth Theatre
-PA Youth Ballet
-MayFair
-Lehigh Valley Arts Council
...and so many more
Cultural arts really enhance the quality of life in the Lehigh Valley. It is so important that we let the Senate know that arts funding is important to us and to the economic vitality of the state.
Please contact your state senator today to let him/her know that $14 million for arts grants is important to you. If you wrote to your senator last week, give them a call today to tell them:
-You don't support SB 850 with zero funding for arts grants and
-You would like arts grants funded at the $14 million level.
You can find out contact information for your senator by visiting our Legislative Action Center at http://capwiz.com/artsusa/pa/state/main/
Last of all, forward this e-mail to family, friends, co-workers, etc. and ask that they also contact their legislators in support of state arts funding. I'm singing to the choir, I know, but what a dreary state we would live in without the arts. If funding ceases to exist, that just may happen.
Thanks for all of your help with this important campaign.
If you have any questions, please contact Citizens for the Arts jlh@citizensfortheartsinpa.org or by phone at 717-234-0959.