[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 52 (Tuesday, May 2, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E609]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    PHILADELPHIA'S LIVELY ARTS GROUP FOUNDER RETIRES AFTER 25 YEARS

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                           HON. CHAKA FATTAH

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 2, 2000

  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Speaker, this year the Lively Arts Group bids 
farewell to its founding director, Naomi Klein, who is retiring after 
25 years of service.
  The Lively Arts Group is unique as the nation's only nonprofit 
cultural arts touring organization since its founding in 1975 by Naomi 
Klein. Since then Mrs. Klein has conducted an average of 50 adult-
education and cultural-arts tours each year, totaling 1,250 tours in 
her 25 years. Mrs. Klein has personally guided more than 62,000 
Philadelphia area residents throughout our country to major museums, 
orchestra concerts, theater, ballet and opera performances, historic 
houses, mansions, villages and gardens. For many of these travelers, 
especially those with physical disabilities, it has been their eye-
opening and mind-opening introduction to the various cultural arts, 
which they have subsequently pursued and enjoyed independently.
  At the same time, these group visits have provided a new outreach 
audience, additional new members and support for these cultural 
organizations and institutions. Directors of Philadelphia's museums and 
cultural institutions have served as the Lively Arts Group's Advisory 
Board, lending their prestige and professional knowledge to these 
tours.
  The Lively Arts Group adventures have spread Philadelphia's 
reputation for its cultural-minded citizens throughout the country and 
abroad and continues into its next century on the principles and 
highest standards of arts-education and community service created in 
1975 by its founder, Naomi Klein.

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