Philly mayoral hopefuls share their vision for the city's arts and culture sectors during debate
Nine candidates vying to be Philadelphia’s 100th mayor painted a picture of their visions for the arts and cultural economy during City & State’s forum on Thursday, March 2.
The mayoral hopefuls shared their ideas for bolstering the city’s arts and culture institutions and weighed in on how the arts can improve initiatives ranging from school programming to violence prevention.
Eight Democrats – Jeff Brown, Allan Domb, Derek Green, Helen Gym, Rebecca Rhynhart, James DeLeon, Cherelle Parker, and Maria Quiñones-Sánchez – and Republican David Oh were among the candidates at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Jenny DeHuff, City & State PA editor-in-chief, and Ari Mittleman, host of the Pennsylvania Kitchen Table Politics Podcast, moderated the panel. State Rep. Amen Brown and Pastor Warren Bloom Sr. were not in attendance.
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