Evans to Announce Major Grant to Asian Arts Initiative

Resources will be used to fund shared arts facility

WHAT:

Announcement of major grant to the Asian Arts Initiative for the development of a shared arts facility serving Chinatown and the broader Philadelphia community.

WHO:

State Representative Dwight Evans
Asian Arts Initiative Executive Director Gayle Isa
Institute for Arts in Education Executive Director Shelly Dorfman
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation
Board Chair Andrew Toy


WHERE:

Asian Arts Initiative
1315 Cherry Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA

WHEN:

10:00 a.m.
Monday, October 16th, 2006

State Representative Dwight Evans will join Gayle Isa, Executive Director of the Asian Arts Initiative, and other guests in announcing a major state grant to the Initiative for the development of a shared arts facility serving Chinatown and the broader Philadelphia community. The shared arts facility will be a replacement home for the Asian Arts Initiative, arts organizations and other individual artists who are being displaced by the Convention Center expansion as well as a resource for community and economic development.

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Last Updated: October 30, 2006