Penn Arts & Culture: Collaboration and Boundary-Hopping

In the other case presentation, Michael Rose, director of the Annenberg Center, noted that the gospel program developed partly as a result of conversations with Dr. Ira Harkavy, director of the Center for Community Partnerships, and led to a collaboration with the music department. Harkavy himself called it “one of the most satisfying projects” he had ever been involved with, and one which showed a way of “seeing West Philadelphia not as a problem” but as a source of collaborative effort, and its music as a powerful local expression of art.

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