The Lively Arts is the umbrella for all performing and visual arts events presented by the IUP College of Fine Arts and its departments of Music, Art, and Theater and Dance. It offers the campus and area community nearly 200 events annually. The Lively Arts also presents a variety of touring national and international performing artists through its Performance Plus series, and it serves as a source of information for the University Museum and Kipp Gallery and oversees the operation of the IUP Performing Arts Center and Fisher Auditorium.
For more information, call 724-357-2547 or e-mail us at lively-arts.iup.edu. If you would like to receive regular e-mail updates, visit our Go Live site now.
To purchase tickets on line for Performance Plus and Sound Choices series events, please visit the Student Cooperative Association’s ticket information site.
Action Needed: Save the Arts in Pennsylvania!
Your immediate action is required to save arts funding in Pennsylvania. The state senate has targeted the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for elimination by passing Senate Bill 850. The House version, House Bill 1416, continues funding for the PCA at $14 million (slight decrease from the current allocation) and will come up for a vote very soon. If the House bill passes as is, that will mean the two sides will need to come to a compromise regarding state arts funding.
If you do not speak out now, the Indiana County area could lose over $150,000 in state funding, which would include the elimination of ArtsPath and various activities through The Lively Arts. Other programs offered by the likes of the Indiana Arts Council, Partners in the Arts, Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance, area museums, regional professional artists, and other organizations will also be severely and negatively affected.
- Here’s what to do:
Sign the on-line state petition to Save the Arts in Pennsylvania (it will take you only about three to four minutes).
- Sign up for action alerts from Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania.
- Contact your state legislators today through the Legislative Action Center.
Facebook Members: Sign up for the “Save the Arts in Pennsylvania” Cause and become a friend of Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania.
- E-mail (lively-arts@iup.edu) us if you have any questions or need help in how best to show your support of the arts in Pennsylvania. And when you e-mail your legislators, copy us and we will make sure to follow up with your elected officials.