A two-day conference on advancing the arts in American Jewish life, convened by the National Jewish Welfare Board, opened here today. Purpose of the meeting is to help Jewish centers and YM-YWHAs to intensify Jewish cultural creativity and programming through the arts.
The conference will seek to develop plans to make maximum use of available resources of existing Jewish cultural material and to establish new resources by encouraging individuals and groups to create new works in various artistic fields by providing facilities and instructions through repertory companies and traveling exhibitions.
The conference also will seek to aid development of resources for scholarships, commissions and awards in Jewish arts and to attract more participation by involving lay leaders in such activities and by also involving creative artists and professionals as teachers, interpreters and performers, and involving the general public. Another objective will be the development of cooperative communal observances of cultural activities.
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