Yahoo!

Have you joined your peers and colleagues on Facebook or on the exclusively private ATA Members Yahoo Forum? If not, you should do so tout de suite because the ATA Members Yahoo Forum is free and valuable at the same time. There are over 900 ATA members registered, but it is private and exclusive nonetheless. A paradise of paradoxes. Come see.

Messages In today's ATA Digest #1284 include:

• An Advocate: Bill Irwin on artists and the recovery

• A Job Announcement: Dance teachers needed for Arts to Grow after-school program in Newark

• An Update: The NYSCA Budget From NYS Arts, Alliance of NYS Arts Organizations

You can read all about it there, but not here.

If you are a Professional Teaching Artist, you can now keep in touch with a growing professional community on Facebook and on Yahoo. That's revolutionary, useful and fun.

The Association of Teaching Artists supports professional Teaching Artists in all our roles and the organization will gratefully accept your contributions. Yes, ATA knows times are tough, so just give an amount that is meaningful and significant to you.

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If it's $50? Terrific.

If you give $5 that's amazing, because it means you care enough to give.

ATA is grateful to you and, no matter the amount, your gift will make a difference.

Thanks and have a good weekend!

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