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"I'm going to be there, and I have some magical sneakers I'm going to be wearing because it's artful glamor.
It's a party but, you know, it's a party but, you know, it's the first ever New Year's Eve event in the Arcade."
That's how Curtis Bowman describes a New Year's Eve party in Dayton, Ohio, to mark the 50th anniversary of Cultural Works.
The nonprofit was founded in 1974 as the Performing Arts Fund, raising money for such things as the ballet, the opera, and the symphony, but its mission was expanded and it eventually merged with the Miami Valley Arts Alliance and took on the additional mission of fostering community arts programs, the Dayton Daily News reports.
Last year, Cultural Works gave more than $250,000 to 10 local arts agencies.
"We trained the artists, the artists went out into the community and interviewed community members about what did they want to see in their community and how could it articulate the identity of the community," Bowman tells the Daily News.
"Then they came up with a project, presented it to the community, a couple of different iterations, and the community voted on it."
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