Kingsport Blogger: Sep 13 - News on Arts Alliance website

Monday, September 12, 2005

Sep 13 - News on Arts Alliance website

Look at the LATEST NEWS on the

Arts Alliance Mountain Empire website

http://www.aame.info

to find out more about
the following items:

*** Literacy Awareness Month Presentation Sept. 13

*** Imagination Library Fundraiser Sept. 8

*** Regional Arts Calendar ***

*** Current and past issues of A! Magazine for the Arts ***

*** IMPORTANT REMINDER ***

The Tennessee Arts Commission will NOT be conducting regional grant workshops this fall. INSTEAD, the workshops will be incorporated into E-ARTS, the Governor's Regional Conferences on the Arts. The conferences will provide information about the new grant application structure. The conference in East Tennessee will take place October 13 at the UT Conference Center in Knoxville. More information may be found in the September edition of A! Magazine for the Arts and on the Arts Commission website, www.arts.state.tn.us.

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