ARTNOW: Advocacy for the ARTS (fwd)

[Maria S. Kliavkoff]

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:47:33 -0400
From: James Thomas <jthomas at CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU>
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Subject: ARTNOW: Advocacy for the ARTS
 
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>                       ARTNOW - 5 OCTOBER 1996
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>(please excuse any cross postings...)
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>On Saturday 5 October 1996 as many people as possible--thousands, maybe
>100s of thousands--will, we hope, come to Washington DC to celebrate the
>arts, to do art, to show ourselves to ourselves and the nation. This
>celebration/performance/march is called ARTNOW.
>
>The idea is to make a great big celebration in Washington DC on 5 October
>1996 to *celebrate* the arts, to protest the cuts in arts funding, to
>change negative attitudes towards art into positive ones. We need to come
>together to celebrate what we love and to insist that our government
>recognize their monetary responsibility for a flourishing arts culture.
>
>ARTNOW is a very big but extremely locally organized event. Everyone all
>around the country should spread the word and organize it. Network, plan,
>and come to Washington on 5 October. This is a grassroots effort. Take
>the initiative, do it your way and make this event happen.
>
>WHAT TO DO and FOR MORE INFO:
>Let all your email correspondents know about it.
>Check it out on ARTNOW's homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/artnow/
>
>Also check out the ARTNOW discussion list, which you can subscribe to:
>1. send a message to: listserv at listserv.acns.nwu.edu
>2. leave subject line blank
>3. type message: subscribe ARTNOW firstname lastname
>
>Then you can post messages the ARTNOW discussion list by mailing them to:
>
>      artnow at listserv.acns.nwu.edu
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>For further information about ARTNOW, please send email to
>art.now at nyu.edu or call 212-998-1630 (ARTNOW phone headquarters at Dept
>of Performance Studies, NYU).