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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ARTS AWARDS WATERLOO REGION IS CELEBRATING 26 YEARS!</span>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NOMINATIONS are now OPEN!</span> <b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif""><br>
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Arts Awards Waterloo Region </span><a href="http://www.artsawardswaterlooregion.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#6000A1">www.artsawardswaterlooregion.ca</span></a><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif""> is
a celebration of artistic achievement in fourteen categories at an Annual Arts Awards gala. It began in 1988, and is now recognized as a benchmark event for the arts across Canada. This year is special. It's our 26th anniversary year!</span>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"">We're looking for great artists! <span style="color:#00C200">Writers, performing arts, musicians, painters, video artists, clothing designers, filmmakers, poets, composers, illustrators, photographers,
playwrights, textile, graphic designers, choreographers, directors, curators, producers, songwriters, print makers, mentors, young artists, festivals/events, </span>... the list is endless! </span></b>
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Who do you know? </span></b> <br>
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NOMINATE here</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00C200">: </span><a href="http://www.artsawardswaterlooregion.ca/nominate/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.artsawardswaterlooregion.ca/nominate/</span></a>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Criteria here:<span style="color:#00C200"> </span></span><a href="http://www.artsawardswaterlooregion.ca/nominate/nomination-criteria/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00C200">http://www.artsawardswaterlooregion.ca/nominate/nomination-criteria/</span></a> <br>
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Follow AAWR</span></u></b> <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
Twitter: </span></b><a href="https://twitter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00C200">https://twitter.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="color:#6000A1">@WRArtsAwards</span><b>
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