School dazed.(From the Executive Director)(performing arts environments)

For more than two years, TCG has been engaged in a 10-city, cross-disciplinary research project. The study, conducted by the Urban Institute and relying on random household surveys, is filled with good news--e.g., that at least 63 percent in each city attended a live not-for-profit performing arts event in the past 12 months; that more than 90 percent valued the arts as an important force in shaping and educating children. And that theatre was the most highly attended of the performing arts forms.

In Sarasota (where I was present at the unveiling of the research), one finding ...

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