FRIDAY NIGHT FOLKS !! IT’S PARTY TIME AT THE RIALTO !!! 7:00 to 12:00 pm !!
Five great bands. Dancing. One-of-a-kind independent videos being streamed onto theatre walls. “Special” performers roaming the crowd that will leave you talking about this event for years. And local filmmakers capturing the evening as it unfolds. Click on the attached flyer. It promises to be an OUTRAGEOUS evening !!!
All your contributions are going to a great cause: A new movie marquee for the Screening Room theatre. We are talking glitz here baby. WE are talking about a neon blaze that is going to light up Congress Street for a hundred years. You think the Arizona International Film Festival is good now. Wait till we have the Fox, the Rialto and Screening Room all lit up for Arizona’s biggest film event . Tucson is going to become the Sundance of the South someday my friends, mark my words …!
And YOU can make it happen. Just get your butt down to the Rialto this Friday and have some fun. That’s it: just have some fun. Oh yeah, and donate a few bucks. It’s all tax deductible if you really care about those things.
You CAN make a difference downtown.
Join us on Friday and help Congress Street see the light.
Upcoming Initiative: Americans for The Arts: See message below.
At the end of May, I had the opportunity to attend a meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama and a number of federal officials, where we discussed the Obama administration’s vision for volunteer service for the summer of 2009. I thanked the First Lady for having the arts at the table and pointed out that the arts sector has a long history of community volunteer action.
In fact, there is a great untold story about the impactful volunteerism that already exists at arts organizations across the country. There are also countless stories of artists volunteering in nontraditional settings such as hospitals, juvenile centers, and public housing venues. Now is the time to tell our important story, and now is the time for arts organizations nationwide to increase opportunities for volunteers to get involved in order to help stabilize the arts during this economic downturn.
Today, I am co-hosting a conference call with leaders from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for National & Community Service to ensure that more than 100 national arts service organizations can learn more about opportunities for arts groups to participate in a major White House summer service initiative. Details about the summer service initiative will be announced nationally by President Obama. Once these details are released, Americans for the Arts will help organize a much larger second conference call in order to give local and statewide arts organizations and others the specific tools to quickly get involved with this national initiative.
The White House summer service initiative specifically focuses on economic recovery and service in the four areas of energy efficiency, education and literacy, healthcare access, and community renewal. What many people do not fully realize is the extent to which arts organizations, local and state arts agencies, business committees for the arts, art education groups, and others already engage volunteers using the arts to help solve such broad community problems.
I urge our Americans for the Arts members, as well as our colleagues in the larger arts community, to participate in this upcoming summer service initiative. With the public attention I believe that the President and First Lady will bring to the effort, it will be worth our time to ensure that the arts are well represented.
Here are some preliminary action steps that you can take:
Post and sponsor existing and/or new summer service opportunities on www.serve.gov. These opportunities can be arts specific or targeted to the four service areas above.
Stay tuned to participate in the local and state arts organization conference that Americans for the Arts is coordinating with the Corporation for National & Community Service and the National Endowment for the Arts later this month. More information will follow in the coming weeks.
Take a leadership role locally by sharing news of this upcoming initiative with your networks and members and connecting your local volunteer endeavors to President Obama’s national announcement.
Thank you for all of the good work you already do. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in Seattle next week.
These cuts would eliminate ALL public funding for arts programs throughout the State
ACT NOW: Arizona Legislative Leadership proposal can have a devasting impact on the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
t is time for Arts Advocates to take ACTION! Arizona Legislative Leadership proposed virtual elimination of the Arts Commission with the release of their 2010 budget last week. (6/4/09)
While the Arts industry understands these are difficult times and that budget reductions are unavoidable, the proposed cuts would destroy an agency that provides critical support through programs, services and grants to an already stressed arts industry.
Specifics of the budget proposal:
• Essentially eliminates ongoing general appropriations to the Arizona Commission on the Arts: $1.58 million.
• Sweeps the remaining $14.653 million from our once-$20 million ArtShare endowment.
• Offers a mere $300,000 in an “operations offset” – not even enough to match NEA funds to which Arizona is entitled. These cuts would eliminate ALL public funding for arts programs throughout the State.
To learn more, and to contact your legislators visit our Legislative Action Center.
t is time for Arts Advocates to take ACTION! Arizona Legislative Leadership proposed virtual elimination of the Arts Commission with the release of their 2010 budget last week. (6/4/09)
