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Resources: Filling the House

Three ways to build new audiences for your programs.

1. Philly Fun Savers
Philly Fun Savers is a weekly e-mail newsletter offering half-price tickets and admission to Philadelphia arts events. GPCA member organizations can submit listings for their cultural events weekly for inclusion in an e-mail sent to thousands of Greater Philadelphia arts consumers who sign up for the program at PhillyFunGuide.com, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s online events calendar. Philly Fun Savers helps the arts consumer by lowering the "entry" cost of participation in arts and culture events and enabling the user to make more flexible, last minute decisions about leisure-time spending. It also helps participating organizations by increasing revenue and enabling them to fill seats that would otherwise be unsold.

Philly Fun Savers is part of the GPCA’s Campaign for Culture, a $3.4 million, three-year marketing initiative supported in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts and designed to promote Greater Philadelphia’s arts and culture industry.

2. Biz Tix
The Arts & Business Council’s Biz Tix program offers complimentary or discounted tickets to business executives involved in the council’s programs. Biz Tix helps arts organizations attract potential new patrons, subscribers, and attendees from the business community. For more information, contact the Arts & Business Council at 215-790-3620.

3. Complimentary Tickets
Want to improve access to your events and attract new audiences? Looking for ways to reach underserved communities with your programs? The organizations listed here are all interested in receiving free tickets for distribution to their constituencies. Please e-mail us if you would like your organization to be added to this list.

Yana Nabutovsky
Art Alliance of Philadelphia
251 S 18th Street, Floor 3
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6168
(215) 545-4302

Lori Sasaki
Asian Arts Initiative
1315 Cherry St., Floor 2
Philadelphia, PA 19107-2026
(215) 557-0455

Rachel Rosen
Avenue of the Arts
123 S. Broad St. #1240
Philadelphia, PA 19109-1028
(215) 731-9668

Teri Shockley
Community Education Center
3500 Lancaster Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4916
(215) 387-1911

Edwina French, Executive Director
Community Music School of Collegeville
775 West Main Street
Trappe, PA 19426
(610) 489-3676

Steve Pullara
Cool Beans Music, Inc.
Box 2091
Warminster, PA 18974

Tony Hamilton
Creative Artists Network
237 S. 18th St. #3A
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6116
(215) 546-7775

Mary Wheelock
Outreach Coordinator
Curtis Institute of Music
1726 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Ginger Osborne
Fairmount Park Art Association
1616 Walnut St. #2012
Philadelphia, PA 19103-5530
(215) 546-7550

Jack Carr
Girard Academic Music School
22nd & Ritner Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19145
215-952-8589

Marilyn George
Music Performance Coordinator
Haverford College Department of Music
370 Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA 19041

Heather Eastman
Pennsylvania Performing Arts
1811 Chestnut St. #301
Philadelphia, PA 19103-3703
(215) 496-9424

Ki Hoon Cha
Music Director
Philadelhia Art & Music School
7300 Old York Rd. #216
Elkins Park, PA 19027

Dr. Paul S. Jones
Chair, Department of Music
Philadelphia College of Bible
200 Manor Ave.
Langhorne, PA 19047

Debra Halpern
Board Member
Philadelphia Folksong Society
7113 Emlen Street
Philadelphia, PA 19119

Eric E. Anderson
Director, Mary Louise Curtis Branch
Settlement Music School
416 Queen St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147

M. Elizabeth Armistead
Director, Early Childhood Initiative
Settlement Music School
416 Queen St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Valerie Clayton
Coordinator, Eastwick Satellite
Settlement Music School
Island Road Recreation Center
2201 Island Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19143

Marsha Hogan
Director, Jenkintown Music School Branch
Settlement Music School
515 Meetinghouse Rd.
Jenkintown, PA 19046

Mark F. Huxsoll
Director, Kardon-Northeast Branch
Settlement Music School
3745 Clarendon Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19114

Patricia Manley
Director, Germantown Branch
Settlement Music School
6128 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19144

David Rupp
Director, West Philadelphia Branch
Settlement Music School
4910 Wynnefied Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19131

Kay Standifer, Executive Director
Suburban Music School
201 North Providence Road
Media, PA 19063
610-566-4215
610-566-2246 FAX
suburbanmusicschool@worldnet.att.net

Judy Lord
Swarthmore College
Department of Music and Dance
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
jlord1@cc.swarthmore.edu
610-328-8233

Director of College Relations
Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music
1715 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Performance Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania Music Dept.
201 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6313

Stephen Jay
Dean, College of Performing Arts
University of the Arts
320 S. Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102-9762

Dr. Timothy Blair
Dean, School of Music
West Chester University School of Music
West Chester, PA 19383-2400