01 & 14 (129)Public Comment
From: Bart Ziegler <
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2021 1:29 AM
To: Public Comment
Cc: info@anaheimbaIlet.org
Subject: Please Preserve Anaheim Cultural Arts Center
Dear Mayor Sidhu, and esteemed Anaheim City Council Members,
The arts play a most vital, valued and magnificent role in any community. For more than 20 years your
Anaheim Ballet has been a powerful arts force with a priceless presence in Anaheim. The Artistic Director is
renowned across America for his training and adherence to excellence. He is sought after for his Master
Classes around the world. His wife's choreography has a global reputation.
Your Anaheim Ballet provides free community-based after-school programming, workforce and recreational
training, bus -in presentations, lecture/demonstrations and concert performances for the entire
community. Anaheim Ballet continues without compromise to level of excellence rarely achieved, and is
recognized both locally and internationally, which must be a point of pride to the City of Anaheim.
One Anaheim Ballet .Y.ou .T..ub..e y d_ _q has well over five million views. Even during the current influenza
pandemic
Anaheim Ballet have appeared in local papers with continued mentoring of students, training the youth of
tomorrow despite challenging circumstances. What a proud city you must be to continue to host such
promise.
Anaheim Cultural Arts Center, the current home of the Anaheim Ballet, is slated to be demolished without
plans for a new Cultural Arts Center or home for your Anaheim Ballet. To demolish this stunning Deco
architecturally significant building, you would remove to rubble the only Cultural Arts Center in Anaheim and
displace your own City's treasured arts organization.
Mayor, most certainly that wasn't your intention! Please insure Anaheim Ballet remains in its current
accessible location, or another. We urge you vote in support of the Cooperative Agreement with Anaheim
Ballet, and thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Bart Ziegler
Bart Ziegler PhD, Community and Environmental Medicine
President, Sarnuel Lawrence Foundation
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