What’s the big issue facing the Richmond region? Facing your neighborhood? Ever wish you could deliver to your elected officials and decision makers the voting-district-mapped opinions of you and others of like mind? At our 3/31/2011 press conference CultureWorks announced an initiative that will allow for that: Cultural Shareholders – known as cultsha - persons in the Richmond region who value the vital importance of arts and culture for strong communities.
 

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Five thousand was bid more than once at the Visual Arts Center’s Collectors Night Auction on 3/25/2011.
 

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It’s 3/25/2011 and countdown time as I write this – less than a week until proposals are due for the CultureWorks Grants Program. The deadline is Thursday, March 31, 2011.
 

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I was among a few hundred persons who attended the 3/25/2011 annual fundraising breakfast for the Alzheimer’s Association. The “Memories Through Art” program was new to me.
 

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On 3/22/2011 several dozen of us sat on stage at CenterStage’s Carpenter Theatre alongside and among the Richmond Symphony Orchestra.  The day’s mission was straightforward: understand the Symphony’s business of working together to make great music, and make it analogous to our own workplace.
 

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On 3/13/2011 a bell-belted wandering bagpiper greeted my arrival at Bulgaria’s NDK Park – the big expanse surrounding the national cultural center in the heart of Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia. The piper’s can contained a sprinkling of coins – a few levas, but mostly stotinkas – and next to it sat three CDs. I saw him throughout my week there; he seemed to show up in all of the city’s generous public green spaces. And I saw accordion players here and there. And even a clarinet.

 

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