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The Midway at the Three Rivers Festival in 2024.

Can crowdfunding save the Three Rivers Festival?

“Crowdfunding is not a sustainable funding model and we recognize that. But we do recognize that we have a lot of community members that want to be heard and they want to help and this is their opportunity to help. If we can raise enough funding to continue, then we will look at our other revenue streams.”

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“Instead of being ultra serious about it, the goal is to have some levity with it saying, ‘Hey, you know what, I tried this thing. It looks terrible. Here's what I hate about it. Here's what I would do differently next time.' The irony is that often what the artist hates, a viewer loves.”

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“It kind of just organically became this thing where we bring in people and host local art shows."

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“Without our Main Street organizations, the historic downtowns throughout Wabash County and the work they do, we would fall to the plight of urban sprawl. They are truly focused on the economic vitality of the structures that are part of our cultural heritage of where we were, who we were, and what made our communities even become communities.”

BonJo talks about her artwork at Union Street Market.
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“I was just so excited to get my artwork out and seen and talk about it with people I don't know and see how people just break it down because art has its own story to every different eye. Having opportunities and being a part of the opportunities just builds your portfolio up. It builds your support system.”

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Middle Waves Music Festival returns with new leadership and plans for a long-lasting legacy

“We’re looking forward to having a legacy of a great music festival that we’ll grow over time. We’ll become a huge destination for people visiting our city, and in 10 or 20 years, people are going to think of Middle Waves way outside of Fort Wayne. It will be a destination.”

Gavin Thomas Drew, artistic director for Summit City Musical Theatre and an educator at East Noble High School
Meet Gavin Thomas Drew: Playwright, director, educator and theatre powerhouse

“I love living in Fort Wayne because of the opportunity that Fort Wayne has always given me, from a child to now. We have a love for the arts, we have a love for our neighbor. There's something so inviting about that.”

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Scheduled to open its doors in September, The Pearl, a Surack Enterprises development, promises to be a dynamic addition to our cityscape.

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Meet Cory Krueckeberg, the Fort Wayne-born filmmaker behind the feature film ‘Glitter & Doom’

“I've told people ever since I left Fort Wayne and went to college, the amount of culture and art that is in this small town in the middle of cornfields is kind of amazing and nobody would really believe me, but it really is. I'm very, very proud to have come from that and I'm very excited that the film is playing there for that reason– to be a part of that.”

A Fire & Light Production of "The Wizard of Oz."
Is Fort Wayne’s theatre scene growing? Performers and directors weigh in

“No one goes into the arts and musical theater for the money. We go into it because we love it and we thrive to create and to make opportunities and then to cultivate environments of inclusion. That alone is worth the four hours of sleep that I might get on a weeknight.”

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