You can help paint the Big Canvas – and get some holiday shopping done in the same trip.The Big Canvas Confab, the concluding event in a months-long citizen dialogue about the future of arts and culture in this region, will take place at 1 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel and Convention Center.
That, of course, is just a short hop from the King of Prussia mall. So come talk, then shop. Or shop, then talk.
The Big Canvas is an initiative of the Great Expectations civic project, begun last year by The Inquirer and the University of Pennsylvania for the city elections.
At this event, we’ll gather arts and civic leaders, elected officials, and ordinary folks. We’ll report, based on earlier forums, on the core principles for a regional arts strategy that seem to hit citizens’ sweet spot, and on the specific ideas that excite them.
Then everyone will sit down together to discuss ways to turn this input into meaningful action.
Pennsylvania’s first lady, U.S. District Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, a driving force for the arts in Philadelphia, will offer the keynote address.
If you’d like to take part, you can sign up by going to the project Web site, www.greatexpectationsnow.com, or by calling 215-854-5956.
For those without cars – or who hate driving around King of Prussia – we’ll be running free trolleys from several city locations out and back.
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