Cultural Landscape

[ The following is a Letter to the Editor of the SBN-P, published 5/20/2006 from Steven Lovelace, Alana Tillim, Laura Inks, ARTS ALIVE! ]

Das Williams has been a friend to the arts in Santa Barbara. With Das as a city councilman, it has been our experience that when called upon to support fundraisers for the arts, Das is there. He supported the building of community gallery space, art workshop space and low-cost dance rehearsal space with his votes through the redevelopment agency. Called upon to address the importance of protecting the environment at the Jackson Hole Film Festival held at ARTS ALIVE!, he spoke eloquently and intelligently to the audience reaching children and adults alike. Das cares about our community and is a man of action. He is accessible to his constituency and we believe he would do an exemplary job as 2nd District supervisor. A vote for Das is a vote for the cultural landscape of our community. We wish him much success.

Steven Lovelace

Alana Tillim

Laura Inks

ARTS ALIVE!, Santa Barbara

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