Orchestra 2001's "EMERGING MARKETS"
wins an Arts + Business Council Award!
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The Arts + Business Council is the cultural arm of The Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia.
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The 2022 Arts + Business Council Awards will honor impactful collaborations between arts organizations and businesses, through a festive awards celebration with live performances, where you'll feel the undeniable value of bringing the creative and business communities together.
2022 Honorees
Visit Philadelphia, for their "Love & Grit Storefronts" project, which aimed to reinvigorate and beautify the city’s empty storefronts by transforming them into art installations.
The Barnes Foundation, for their "Everyday Places Artist Partnerships" project, an initiative of Barnes West, a collaboration between the Barnes and People’s Emergency Center Community Development Corporation, that connected social impact artists with neighborhood businesses to engage residents in art-making activities, sparking creativity, hope, and healing.
Orchestra 2001, for their "EMERGING MARKETS" project, a two-year series launched in May 2020, which presented informal musical events where Philadelphians shop, work, and play and broke down barriers to access to classical music.
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Launched in May 2020, EMERGING MARKETS is an ongoing series of informal musical events presented where Philadelphians shop, work, and play. Aimed at breaking down barriers to attendance, Orchestra 2001 tailors performances for markets and businesses in all corners of Philadelphia. For example, concerts at the 9th Street Market featured music by Italian, Mexican, Southeast Asian, and African-American composers, representative of that community, and Philadelphia premieres of Chinese composer Tan Dun’s Prayer and Blessings for the Victims of COVID-19.
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For many Philadelphians, the formal nature of concert halls may be intimidating and unappealing, serving as a deterrent to attending concerts. For others, language barriers, ticket prices, and lack of childcare or transportation make performances inaccessible. EMERGING MARKETS offers free and “pay as you wish” admission to provide greater equity for ethnically and socio-economically diverse audiences. Presenting concerts at familiar neighborhood businesses eliminates one of the major barriers to attendance: motivation.
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By the conclusion of this two-year program, Orchestra 2001 will have played approximately 70 short performances reaching 5,000 Philadelphians outside of the Center City cultural district.
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EMERGING MARKETS was one of Orchestra 2001’s responses to the pandemic’s unprecedented loss of employment for local performing artists due to venue closures. It turned the problem of inequitable access to live concerts, into a way of sharing meaningful, high-level performances that have the power to transform lives.
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The EMERGING MARKETS concert series is made possible by generous support from the William Penn Foundation and PNC Arts Alive.
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Please consider making a gift to support music and those who create it!
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Your 100% tax-deductible donation of any amount will help us present music that serves our community more equitably.
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