Community Arts Trust: A Talk by Gordon Thorne at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires
Sunday, February 8, 2009, 4:00 PM
First Congregational Church, 251 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA
5 BerkShares/dollars. Free to members of the Community Land Trust.
Co-sponsored by the E. F. Schumacher Society
Gordon Thorne is the developer of Thorne’s Market in Northampton, founder of Open Field Foundation that holds the Bramble Hill Farm in Amherst, executive director of the Available Potential Enterprises (APE), and an artist concerned about the availability of affordable art spaces in the building of vibrant communities. Thorne will speak on the importance of public access to the arts in shaping and maintaining a healthy and diverse community and the possibility of applying the structure of a community land trust to the creation of a “Community Arts Trust.”
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