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November 7, 2023 by Roberta

Vote for the Arts today, your vote counts

Get out and vote today, if you haven’t already done so via mail ballot. Your vote will let our new leaders see that the arts community is watching. We care, and we are waiting for new enlightened leadership to finally see artists and the arts as valued contributors to the City’s health and well being. Let your vote for the Arts be counted today!

March 2, 2022 by Roberta

Support the Philadelphia Cultural Fund! Plus Artblog news, area opportunities and two great events this weekend!

Artblog supports the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and you can too. Please email or call Mayor Jim Kenney to show your support for the PCF! Meanwhile, we’ve rounded up several opportunities for artists and two wonderful events happening this Friday and Saturday.

June 4, 2021 by Roberta

Restore funding to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and help the City recover, Write your Council Members Today

Please write to your Councilperson and to the seven at-large Council Members NOW to advocate for restoring FULL funding for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund in the city’s 2021-22 budget. Voting could start as early as June 17th, so don’t delay! Make your voice heard before the final vote is cast!

March 29, 2021 by Artblog

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund’s Barbara Silzle on the proposed $1.3M Illuminate the Arts initiative

Barbara Silzle, Executive Director of The Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF), provides context about the management of the proposed $1.3M Illuminate the Arts initiative, as well as a transcript of her testimony at City Council on March 18, 2021, in which she advocates for reinstating PCF’s budget in FY22.

September 7, 2011 by Roberta

Philadelphia’s new council district map? Deadline is Sept. 9 and nobody’s seen it

February 23, 2011 by Libby and Roberta

Business privilege tax exemption would help artists