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Sacramento Press: "Great cities deserve great art," Mayor Kevin Johnson said as he addressed an audience of 400 Thursday night at Sacramento State's University Theatre. The occasion was the final monthly meeting of the For Art's Sake initiative, an effort to revitalize the arts in Sacramento.
Good Day Sacramento's Mark S. Allen hosted the event. The main objective of the evening was the unveiling of the organization's Creative Action Plan, a detailed guideline to invigorate the local art scene over the next four years.
The three central goals of the plan are as follows: to strengthen cultural infrastructure, improve access to the arts and arts education and invest in talent and the creative economy. At the end of the night, all audience members were sent home with a newspaper-style copy of the plan printed by the Sacramento Bee.
Although in its inaugural year, the initiative already has made huge progress. The most notable accomplishment is that Sacramento was selected as the launch city for the John F. Kennedy's Center for the Performing Arts' "Any Given Child" program, which will focus on putting art back into public schools. Sacramento was chosen out of 27 cities, but the program will expand nationwide after it has been launched.
http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/28430/For_Arts_Sake
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