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Make an IMPACT for just $1.63 per week.
When you join the Culture Works Passport Program, your gift does more than purchase a membership.
Because of members like you, Culture Works is able to provide:
Critical operating support grants through our Community Arts Grants program
Local, State , and Federal advocacy
Development of Community Arts programs
Creative Placemaking
Professional Development opportunties for artists
and Arts Activations across the region.
And your Passport membership provides Buy One - Get One FREE tickets to arts and cultural events, as well as admission, restaurant, and retail discounts across the region.
Your community, your investment!
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Culture Works Celebrates Annual Campaign for the Arts with Sing Out Loud! Concert
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Congratulations to the 2025 Artist Opportunity Grantees
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DAYTON, OH—(Feb. 7, 2025)—Dayton Mayor Jeffrey J. Mims announced poet and educator Sierra Leone as the City of Dayton’s first Poet Laureate this morning at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Visitor Center. Si...