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| | Pawtucket Arts Festival - Creation of the Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Pawtucket's Planning Committee, co-chaired by the Kilmartins, created its own festival in June 1999, tying into Providence Convergence, "with a local flavor." Most of the committee members were city officials, civic leaders, local business owners and a few local artists. |
 | | The Art Festival's budget has grown in five years, initially set at $20,000 in 1999, to the 2003 budget of $ 96,156 ($57,184 is allocated to programming). |
 | | Pawtucket's Art Festival has awakened a new pride in our community, and continues to stimulate our creative energies, along with having an economic impact on the City as well. |
| www.pawtucketartsfestival.org /info/creation.html (659 words) |
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