Please pardon duplicates. This local institution is FABULOUS! I joined 2 years ago and began receiving one of the most interesting, best written Bulletins to be delivered to my home. I enjoy touring new and permanent exhibits and am awed by the variety and quality of programs offered to members. Membership also brings discounts on items sold at PFP.
I hope anyone interested in local or world culture (art, crafts, music, cooking, etc.) support PFP with membership. Basic membership is only $25.00. The PFP Gallery is located on 50th Street, south of Baltimore (near Dock Street, the Firehouse and the Credit Union). I hope it will always be close at hand and thriving. Debora's note, with more information, is below. Thanks for supporting PFP and other local good works. Peace! Liz ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Debora Kodish kod...@folkloreproject.org Subject: Please consider joining the Philadelphia Folklore Project Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:50:03 -0400 Dear friends, I am writing to ask for your help. PFP's fiscal year ends August 31st, and we need to add 21 new members to end the year in a healthy state� and to begin our new year with the resources we need. If you are able to join with a donation of any amount, it will mean a great deal. When you join PFP, you invest in the region's cultural health and its artistic diversity� and you let us know that you think that what we do matters. Ensuring that community traditions can continue to be heard, valued and practiced takes all of us. Any help that you can offer will be deeply appreciated. You can give through our secure website (https://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=NMR&&;) or by printing and sending the form at the bottom of the letter below. Thank you for your consideration in these hard times. All best end-of-summer wishes - and in the hope that we'll see you at PFP soon. . .With thanks, Debora KodishPhiladelphia Folklore Project / 735 S. 50th St. / Philadelphia, PA 19143 / 215.726.1106 / www.folkloreproject.org- - - -Dear friend, Where else in Philadelphia can you learn traditional needlework patterns from Palestinian women, hear Liberian proverbs shared by immigrant elders, document your own cultural heritage, get help in developing your folk arts project, consider your relationships to enslaved Africans who labored here more than 200 years ago, and experience a practice of peace and compassion as a Tibetan lay monk makes a mandala out of countless colored grains of sand? For 23 years, PFP has been a trusted place where people come to share and to build folk arts that work in different ways for social change. Our free programs help create real alternatives and vital communities. But PFP programming depends on community support: your donation. Become a PFP member now, and help sustain meaningful artistic and cultural diversity in our city. Give whatever you wish ($25, $60, $100 or more)� and help us weather the challenging economy. Here is some of what your support makes possible: � Artist residency programs that offer important local folk and traditional artists opportunities to develop significant work. This year, PFP supported the remarkable collaboration of tap dancer Germaine Ingram, jazz musician Bobby Zankel and visual artist John Dowell as they created a multimedia piece imagining the experiences of the nine enslaved Africans laboring in George Washington�s President House in the 1790s. More than 200 people witnessed this work-in-progress and shared feedback. The project let us all consider what responsibilities we bear for painful pasts, and how folk arts can carry forward legacies and freedom dreams. � Technical assistance workshops that address the barriers that impede community-based folk arts. Our new Community Folklife Documentation Workshop offered hands-on help to artists and community members producing work documenting meaningful traditions. Other workshops on grant-writing and ongoing mentoring have over 23 years returned a remarkable $2.95 million to 543+ local artists and community groups for important cultural heritage projects in local neighborhoods: real community investment. Real return on your investment. � Folk arts education programs that keep culturally significant arts accessible to the next generation. At the Folk-Arts Cultural Treasures Charter School (which we helped to found), dynamic teaching artists build 400+ young peoples� capacity to discover the world (and themselves) through free artist residencies and ensembles. � Folk Arts House programs that are your open door to what diverse local traditions mean, here and now. Local traditional artists share experiences and arts with you in more than 30 free PFP gallery openings, salons and workshops annually. This year, exhibitions on Palestinian women�s needlework, and on Mid-Autumn festival in Chinatown, opened conversations about the place of folk arts in addressing displacement. More than 800+ of you stopped by. . . And there is more� our archive, magazine and documentary videos preserve (and widen) the record of community experiences and expressions. In multiple media, we give important local folk and traditional artists the attention they deserve. Visit our website for more details: www.folkloreproject.org Can we count on your contribution of $25, $60, $100 or more, in support of PFP�s programs? Every gift will make a difference. Please return the slip below, or donate online through our secure server: www.folkloreproject.org With many thanks, and all good wishes for a happy and healthy summer, Debora Kodish, Director P.S. For the last 23 years, we have relied on public investment�through donations like yours�to give us the resources to stay independent and set our own agenda, sustaining serious cultural diversity in this city. Help us continue to support real alternatives for our communities. Please make a contribution to PFP today. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Yes! I want to invest in sustainable folk arts in Philadelphia. Enclosed is my donation to PFP of: __ $25 Basic __ $35 Family __ $60 Contributor __ $150 Supporter __ $250 __ $500 $____Other __ Sweat Equity/ I can give time, and volunteer in some way Name: ______________________________________________________________________________Address: __________________________________________________Phone:_____________________ City: _________________________ State: _____ Zip: _________ E-mail:____________________ Mail to: Philadelphia Folklore Project � 735 S. 50th St. � Phila., PA 19143 � 215-726-1106 � www.folkloreproject.org The official registration and financial information of the Philadelphia Folklore Project may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1 (800) 732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement._______________________________________ Elizabeth Campion PRUDENTIAL, FOX & ROACH REALTORS, LLC 210 W. 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