But John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, has spoken against cuts to the city's other arts groups.
He joined the boards of arts groups and scored newspaper publicity by holding a benefit for Residents for Emergency Shelter.
Millions of pounds of lottery money has been given to arts groups to help refurbish run-down theatres, galleries and cinemas.
Arts groups in Somerset say they are struggling to find a new venue for their shows after the Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre closed this week.
Under that two-year program, 15 American artists are deployed to countries as far apart as China to Venezuela to connect with local arts groups and create participatory work.
The Philharmonic, like many performing arts groups, plays an announcement at the beginning of concerts and at the end of each intermission asking the audience members to turn off their cellphones.
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One entrepreneur, Kathy Canfield Shepard who founded Canfield Design Studios in New York City to help arts groups with marketing and website services, has worked with Nina since she incorporated in 2001.
Several local arts groups are also campaigning to save the town's theatre and as many are expected to turn up, the council said it would open the reception area so "people don't have to wait in the cold and the dark".
Opera houses, museums, endowments, arts and other cultural groups will raise a hailstorm of opposition to this proposal.
The events have been set up by groups including Prema, Stroud Valley Arts, Art Couture Painswick, Museum in the Park, Hawkwood College, the Subscription Rooms, Tomato Jack, and South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.
But with much of the attention and cash going to high-profile festivals, some are concerned about the survival of smaller groups, the real people behind the arts.
It had been heavily criticised by teaching unions and some groups, especially those involved in the arts, who said it would narrow the curriculum and that fewer young people would study art and music and other non-Bacc subjects as a result of it.
One of the first groups to be invited was the Covent Garden Festival, a local arts group that has been one of the development's most vocal critics.
Through a foundation, Mr. Allen has made grants to more than 1, 400 nonprofit groups, largely in the Pacific Northwest, in education, health and the arts.
Year groups will take it in turns to miss lessons because the loss of the arts and theatre block has left the school with a shortage of classrooms.
The city council will be working in partnership with community writing organisation Writing On The Wall, the Merseyside Literature Partnership and other local groups to finalise details of the festival, which will be partly funded by Arts Council England.
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