2012-2013 Budget - City of Saginaw MI

2012-2013 Budget - City of Saginaw MI 2012-2013 Budget - City of Saginaw MI

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Positive Results in a Downtown Environment (PRIDE) wasformed in 1975 and is composed of volunteers committed topromoting and beautifying Downtown Saginaw. Its annual eventsinclude the Memorial Day Parade, Annual Christmas Parade, andHolidays in the Heart of the City, Friday Night Live, the DowntownSaginaw Farmer’s Market, and Harvest Days.Read Enjoy And Discover (READ) helps students improve their reading skills and discover the joyof reading. READ mentors make sharing their love of reading their primary focus while also providinga positive role model as well as teaching values, such as courage, honesty, friendship, kindness,truthfulness, integrity, and compassion.Riverside Saginaw Film Festival features 14 films and numerous documentaries over six days at theTemple Theatre, Castle Museum, Pit & Balcony Community Theatre, Hoyt Library, the Lawn ChairFilm Festival, and the Court Theatre. It is a community event designed to celebrate, explore, andscreen great movies, thus adding to the cultural life of the Saginaw Valley and beyond.Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra has performed an annual concert series since its creation in 1935.It is a fully professional ensemble drawing its members from throughout Michigan. The Orchestraperforms a wide variety of chamber, pops, educational, and historic concerts plus opera, ballet, andmodern dance.Saginaw Arts & Enrichment Commission serves as a catalyst for thearts by encouraging, developing, and promoting organizations andactivities that enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in theSaginaw Community. Current activities include the All Area Arts Awards,Hispanic Heritage and Black History Student Art Exhibitions, Art at theAndersen, Saginaw Cultural Events Roundtable, Visiting ArtistResidency, Hollyday Fair, Artifacts newsletter, and many other programs.421

Saginaw Art Museum features an expansive permanent collection, enhanced museum store, andtraveling exhibits of national and international merit. Lectures, tours, and classes are just part of thewide range of educational offerings and community outreach. Saginaw Art Museum also features amulti-purpose lecture theatre, and an enlarged Vision Area, as well as the Museum’s popular hands-onchildren’s gallery.Saginaw Choral Society is comprised of 100 members, auditioned volunteer performance, whichannually presents a season of classical, contemporary, and popular concerts for the community. Thechorus has earned much critical acclaim, has garnered local, state, and national awards and has built asubstantial regional following.Lawn Chair Film Festival is geared to the 20 year old and upcrowd with one additional family feature per season. It takesplace during the summer on Sunday nights in Old CitySaginaw at North Hamilton and Ames. This event is great forfamily and friends to gather together for a good blockbusternight. It also features outstanding independent, foreign, andclassic movies. It draws on average an audience between 700 and 1,500.Saginaw Eddy Concert Band consists of60 members from retired music teachers,music majors from local colleges such asCentral Michigan, to otherwise musicallyinclined Saginawians. The Saginaw EddyConcert Band plays standard marches,musical scores with accompanying vocalists, classical selections adapted for concert bands and more.St. John’s Episcopal Church was founded in 1851 and is the oldest church in the Saginaw Valley. Itis located on North Michigan Street. It boasts stained glass windows from both the United States andEurope. Saginaw has other churches in the area, ranging from Catholic, Baptists, Church of God InChrist, , and many more denominations.422

Positive Results in a Downtown Environment (PRIDE) wasformed in 1975 and is composed <strong>of</strong> volunteers committed topromoting and beautifying Downtown <strong>Saginaw</strong>. Its annual eventsinclude the Memorial Day Parade, Annual Christmas Parade, andHolidays in the Heart <strong>of</strong> the <strong>City</strong>, Friday Night Live, the Downtown<strong>Saginaw</strong> Farmer’s Market, and Harvest Days.Read Enjoy And Discover (READ) helps students improve their reading skills and discover the joy<strong>of</strong> reading. READ mentors make sharing their love <strong>of</strong> reading their primary focus while also providinga positive role model as well as teaching values, such as courage, honesty, friendship, kindness,truthfulness, integrity, and compassion.Riverside <strong>Saginaw</strong> Film Festival features 14 films and numerous documentaries over six days at theTemple Theatre, Castle Museum, Pit & Balcony Community Theatre, Hoyt Library, the Lawn ChairFilm Festival, and the Court Theatre. It is a community event designed to celebrate, explore, andscreen great movies, thus adding to the cultural life <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Saginaw</strong> Valley and beyond.<strong>Saginaw</strong> Bay Symphony Orchestra has performed an annual concert series since its creation in 1935.It is a fully pr<strong>of</strong>essional ensemble drawing its members from throughout Michigan. The Orchestraperforms a wide variety <strong>of</strong> chamber, pops, educational, and historic concerts plus opera, ballet, andmodern dance.<strong>Saginaw</strong> Arts & Enrichment Commission serves as a catalyst for thearts by encouraging, developing, and promoting organizations andactivities that enhance the economic vitality and quality <strong>of</strong> life in the<strong>Saginaw</strong> Community. Current activities include the All Area Arts Awards,Hispanic Heritage and Black History Student Art Exhibitions, Art at theAndersen, <strong>Saginaw</strong> Cultural Events Roundtable, Visiting ArtistResidency, Hollyday Fair, Artifacts newsletter, and many other programs.421

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