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Friday, June 20, 2008
Kudos to Great Expectations illustrator
Illustrator Tim Ogline has been recognized by the Graphis Gold Award for his work with Great Expectations.

Pieces submitted included his illustrations for the following topics in the Great Expectations Citizens Agenda: arts and culture, city services, crime, ethics and environment.

All of his work for the Citizens Agenda can be seen along with the Citizens Agenda at the Great Expectations Web site.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Join us for The Big Canvas
Nearly everyone who's attended a Great Expectations forum in the last 18 months agreed on one point: One of the best things about living in the Philadelphia region is the wealth of things to do.
 
There are concerts, festivals, plays, performances, museums, historic sites, parks, libraries and much more.
 
It is a rich array of assets. But here's a problem: Many of the institutions that preserve and present the region's arts and culture are cash-poor. They struggle to survive from year to year.
 
For 20 years, the region has talked about creating a strategy to preserve and enhance its arts and culture. Many American cities have one.  But none has emerged here.
 
The Big Canvas will take a new approach: Ask the region's citizens how they use its arts and culture assets, how they value them, what steps they'd favor to preserve and enhance them, and how they'd be willing to pay for all this.
 
The goal: A  regional cultural strategy that citizens will support because they helped craft it, a strategy that reflects their values.  The yield from this initiative will be presented to political leaders at a Big Canvas Confab in the fall.
 
Help us paint the Big Canvas well.  The project begins in July, with a round of five citizen forums around the region.  We invite and urge you to help us get the project off to a rousing start. The more voices and viewpoints that are heard, the stronger the end result will be. 

Tuesday, July 8
The James Michener Art Museum
138 S. Pine St.
Doylestown

Wednesday, July 16
The Inquirer's suburban headquarters - The Schuylkill Printing Plant
800 River Rd.
West Conshohocken

Wednesday, July 23
People's Light & Theatre Company
39 Conestoga Rd.
Malvern

Thursday, July 24
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Ave.
Tolentine Hall
Villanova

Wednesday, July 30
Moore College of Art and Design
20th Street & The Parkway
Philadelphia

Register by following the links above or go to www.greatexpectations07.com. You can sign up via phone at 215-854-5956.
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About The Great Expectations Team

Great Expectations is a civic-engagement project brought to you by The Inquirer and the University of Pennsylvania. Check out the Great Expectations Web site.

Chris Satullo is an Inquirer columnist and former editor of The Inquirer's Editorial Page. Chris along with contributor Harris Sokoloff of The University of Pennsylvania founded the Great Expectations project, which focuses on civic engagement and Philadelphia politics.

Also joining the conversation are Jodie Chester Lowe, a member of the Great Expectations project team, and a host of citizen bloggers, who weigh in on Great Expectations events.

Former Inquirer columnist Tom Ferrick Jr. worked on the Great Expectations project throughout 2007 and into 2008. His observations can be located in the blog archives.

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