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Press Release
GIVE: Community for Community
The GIVE Festival is a gathering of neighboring
businesses, artists and residents of Philadelphia to create a
music and art festival benefiting local artistic and charity organizations.
This year the festival, celebrating its fourth year, will benefit
the Music and Mentorship Program in conjunction with The Rex Foundation.
Music and Mentorship, a program of Intercultural Family Services,
Inc. (IFSI), was established in 1998 in response to cuts in arts
and music programming across the Philadelphia School District.
The program offers urban children and youth an opportunity to
develop their creativity, self-expression, and self-esteem by
providing mentorship through arts instruction and performance.
The Rex Foundation was founded by the Grateful Dead in 1983, and
has distributed $8.3 million in grants to over 1,000 grassroots
programs across the country that might otherwise be under the
radar of larger funders.
GIVE will be taking place on Saturday September 20th, 2008 from
noon to 10:00pm in Liberty Lands Park. Liberty Lands Park is located
at 3rd and Poplar streets in the Northern Liberties section of
Philadelphia.
The festival will feature all-day musical entertainment by King
Brit’s Back 2 Basics Band w/ Dozia, Rich Medina, As Human
w/ Taylor McFerrin, The Spinning Leaves, Hezekiah Jones, DJ Frosty,
Oudblues, John Francis, The Great Unknown, Audible Eye, and Alokli.
The Philadelphia Independent Craft Market will also be on hand
presenting local artists’ original and handcrafted works
for purchase. The market will include nearly thirty vendors with
wares of all kinds. Food and refreshments will be available through
The Curbside
Chef, and all food proceeds go directly to the Music and Mentorship
Program and Rex Foundation.
For artist info on how to reserve space/booth for the market,
please email craftmarket@bigartshow.com.
To receive information on how to donate time or funds, please
contact us here.
SPONSORS:
 
 
CITYBLUE DECAPITATED
RECORDS
-PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT CRAFT MARKET-
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