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		<title>Senate Rejects Effort to Restore MCC Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 23, 2012, Boston, MA-The Massachusetts Senate today rejected an amendment to restore funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). The amendment would have increased the total state appropriation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Organizations and the City of Pittsfield Collaborate to Celebrate Herman Melville &amp; His Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Summer the City of Pittsfield will Celebrate Herman Melville and his works with Theatre, Art, History, Film and an Online Community Reading of Moby Dick. (Pittsfield, Mass.) The great American novel Moby Dick wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From iberkshires: Pittsfield Solons Talk Art, Culture and Politics At Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Durwin PITTSFIELD, Mass.� While local politicians have slightly different perspectives about the cultural scene, they all support the city&#8217;s creative economy. Mayor Daniel Bianchi, state Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, and Ward 6 City Councilor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield Panorama Collaborative Awarded $100,000 Grant from Pittsfield Cultural Council: Over 30 Local Cultural Groups Benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsfield Mayor James Ruberto today announced that the Pittsfield Cultural Council, a local agency funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, has awarded a $100,000 grant to fund an umbrella program entitled Pittsfield Panorama. The year-long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Arts Index Drops to Lowest Point in Twelve Years, but Signals that Arts Creation and Volunteerism is Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans for the Arts released its second annual National Arts Index scores this week and the findings won’t surprise you: the 2009 Index score of 97.7 is the lowest Index score in the twelve years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the MCC: Mass. Mayors Rise to Arts Challenge!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal leaders from across the Commonwealth rose to the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Mayors’ Arts Challenge with powerful testimonials on how arts and culture make their cities better places to live, work, and visit. In all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Signs Law Establishing Cultural Districts</title>
		<link>http://berkshirecreative.org/governor-signs-law-establishing-cultural-districts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill into law yesterday that allows communities to create state-sponsored cultural districts to stimulate new arts and cultural activity and attract creative businesses. The law directs the Massachusetts Cultural Council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature Budgets $9.25 Million for Arts &amp; Cultural Funding through MCC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Legislature voted this week  to approve a state budget for the coming fiscal year that calls for $9.25 million to support the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). A small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State and Local Leaders to Discuss Arts and Achievement at Berkshire Charter School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State legislators and local officials will join the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) at the Berkshire Arts &#38; Technology Charter Public School (BArT) to see how the arts and creativity have helped the school advance student [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out these opportunities to get involved and help direct the future of your community! Points of Collaboration: A Presentation in Response to the MGT (regional consolidation) Report Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 6:30 PM Mahaiwe [...]]]></description>
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