Arts Advocacy Day 2011: Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey, Academy Award®-winning actor and Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre, speaks at the Congressional Arts Kick Off . The Congressional Arts Kick Off marks the official start of the Arts Advocacy Day events on Capitol Hill.

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  Nonprofits & Activism

[Anne Neylon]

One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

John O'Donohue

Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong.

[Rebecca Poitras]

Art as cultural export. Great argument, Spacey. And, it's the TRUTH!

[zoe2020]

Arts are not just a frivolous excess. The arts break down barriers, borders, and uplift the world. The arts are our most extraordinary export. The arts inspire. The arts make science and math more understandable. The arts bring countries together to better understand each other.

Bravo Kevin Spacey! Bravo!!

[fraidykat]

We must find a way to fund the arts in such a way that the Federal government may never have to make these decisions again; the National Endowment must recieve it's funds directly from successful media (the movie industry, the music industry), instead of being leveraged through Congress. How we make that happen will have to be figured out by people smarter than myself. Triggerstreet is a good beginning. The voluntary tithing process used by the LDS church is a feasibly usable process.

[mtjtrumpet]

Bravo!!!!!!!

[Miguelito De Santos]

Please help the Los Angeles Unified School Districts Arts Branch!

The first Ten-Year Arts Education Plan has been funded entirely through general funds, with the Board of Education fully supporting arts as central to student learning. In the current budget crisis the Board is considering a painful cut of 50% of of the elementary arts faculty, approximately 160 highly qualified itinerant dance, music, theatre and visual arts teachers.

Thank you!