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Empowering Communities Through Art event to explore vision for cultural arts center in East Gainesville

January 25, 2024

Press release from City of Gainesville

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Neighbors are invited to “Empowering Communities Through Art,” a moderated discussion on the possibilities and benefits of having a cultural arts center in East Gainesville that embraces culture, traditions, and history through artistic platforms.

When: 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27

Where: The Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center, 837 SE 7th Ave., Gainesville

Gainesville City Commissioner Desmon Duncan-Walker will moderate a panel discussion with Marshall Davis, director of Miami’s African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, and Gainesville native Marion Caffey, director of the Apollo Theater in New York.

The event also features performances by saxophonist Frantz Emmanuel; 1000 Voices of Florida, Inc. and the Star Center Theater; and art by visual artist Yvonne Ferguson.

This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

  • Building a cultural arts center with what money, exactly? The city government of Gainesville is broke, and so are the citizens of East Gainesville, thanks to the city’s incompetence and financial mismanagement.

  • Building a one race “cultural arts center” by a near bankrupt city is not only racist, but unaffordable as well. Of course, the inept, mentally challenged commissioners don’t care. They will just sigh when they announce a further reduction in police jobs to pay for this boondoggle.

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