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Join us Dec. 6 for The Big Canvas Confab
The results of our summer and fall forums will be presented to citizens along with community and political leaders at The Big Canvas Confab.
Sign up here to attend the Dec. 6 event, which will be held from 1-4 p.m. at the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel & Convention Center. (Read more about the event in Chris Satullo's column "Help to enliven the arts.") Free parking and free trolley rides from Center City will be available.
Before attending, check out The Big Canvas Collection, where you can see what citizens talked about during community forums, or take a look at the Issue Guide. The guide offers four approaches to funding arts and culture in the region, and there's still time for you to rate the approaches yourself. (Photo by Christine Cavalier)
The Big Canvas Collection
Citizens have identified arts and culture as an important issues for the region. Take a look at:
• Summer Forum Round-up
• Fall Forum Round-up
• Citizen bloggers from each forum
Also, read the Issue Guide and rate the suggestions yourself.
GE's Chris Satullo to join WHYY
Project leader Chris Satullo will join WHYY as its director of radio, TV and Internet news operations.
He will be moving to the public broadcaster in mid-December. There, he will be focusing on its Web presence and local public-affairs programs while continuing his civic-engagement work.
A City That Works
Mayor Nutter and his top aides have promised to use input from A City That Works forums to help shape performance standards and customer-service expectations.
You can read Chris Satullo's column on the topic, see what attendees were talking about, and check out what our citizen bloggers had to say.
People are talking ...
Find out what people ranging from the Philadelphia mayor to the chairman of the Parks Department have to say about the Great Expectations project.
You can weigh in on the project and its activities by becoming a member of the Great Expectations Web site and leaving a comment for us.
On the blog
Before heading to the Big Canvas Confab, check out our citizen bloggers' reports about our arts and culture forums, or look back through previous entries on other topics.
Don't forget to update your online bookmarks to get to our new blog site. All entries prior to June 19 will continue to be located at our former blog site.
