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717 Arts

Mission-driven Goals:

  • Prioritizing engaging with partners from historically marginalized communities and/or artists working at the experimental fringes of their medium

  • Building good faith partnerships with the community and prove ourselves to be committed, thoughtful partners

  • Creating digital space that serves to help unify and boost the community

  • Brokering existing space within the community to create connection and opportunity in mutually beneficial partnerships with artists, businesses, and organizations

  • Creatively reinventing space for artistic, educational, or community-building purposes

  • Building a coalition of allied volunteers who can assist the community in its work

  • Approaching all partnerships with a non-competitive “joiner” spirit, a willingness to listen and learn, and a “How can we help?” spirit, looking for pragmatic, sustainable ways to provide actionable allyship and support

Programming

  • HARRISBURG FRINGE FESTIVAL: officially launched in the summer of 2023, with events and fundraisers beginning in the prior year, including the splash debut 24 Hour “Fringe in a Day” August 12-13, 2022. The HFF is 717 Arts’ flagship programming and the event that requires most of our volunteer time and finances.

  • FREE IMPROV sessions with artist-musician Tara Toms

  • HELP! (Hey Everybody, Let’s Play) theme-based theatrical comedy improv workshops with comedian-actor-improvisor Liz Curtis.

  • “NEW VOICES” workshops & production programming, supporting educational community outreach work & arts production work for young artists with local ties who represent the communities we serve

  • Free Community Photography and Consulting (PR and space acquisition)