Van Stone International House Community Business Leader Guild Starts Fundraiser At 5150 South Walnut St 2nd Fl. by Sarah Minor frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
A proposed image of the Van Stone International House for the Arts and Education Community Business Leader Guild located at 5150 Walnut Street 2nd Floor in Philadelphia. International and National Dance and Photo Content will be the theme of the new center to help improve Philadelphia communities, New York City communities and surrounding communities. For children/adult enrollment or general info to be a donor call: In Philadelphia For News/Dance/Events/Ad; Stone at (610) 803-1624 - For Business/Events; Cook at (267) 231-5126 - For Entertainment/Radio; Micky J at (610) 522-7652. In New York City For Dance/Events/Ad; Turpin at (347) 988-2713.
The Van Stone International House for Arts and Education Community Business
Leader Guild has a vision for what could be the city of Philadelphia’s first international
arts and educational community center, but it won’t come without hurdles.
“We’re thinking that this will be the new tourism jewel of our city,” said Antoinette
Cook, business writer and fundraiser for the international house for arts and
education guild. “It will help create a day-and-night-light leading communities
to our city.”
After almost seven years of planning, purposing and raising funds, the international
house for arts and education guild is launching a GoFundMe campaign with the
hope of raising $50,000 by March 2019. At a recent West Philadelphia
Neighborhood improvement meeting lead by Van Stone, founder of the Van Stone
Productions Foundation, (VSP) Inc. 501 c3 group, the guild was asked to raise
at least $100,000 by the end of August 2019.
The proposed house for arts and education, located at 5150 Walnut Street 2
nd
floor Philadelphia, PA, occupies the south end of the old pool hall and book
store. The VSP group took over the building, which had formerly been a clothing
depot and, before that, a table tennis hall.
The international house for arts and education guild began managing the
building in the city for the community city with the previously lessor expiring
late last year. Since then VSP has agreed to see if the international house for
arts and education guild can raise the $150,000 and the non-profit is exploring
a proposal to explore a partnership between the building project and the New
York City friends to create a Philadelphia-New York City cultural arts and
dance center.
The goal was set by the city of New York members and city of Philadelphia
members to show whether or not there was ample community support. “Our goal is
to join members of the local international house guild group in Philadelphia with
members of the local dance school group in New York City proposing a way to
work up the finance designated for the VSP and AKAstudios in Philly,” said
Kashim Anthony Turpin, Founder of AKAstudios of New York City.
“Some people feared that this would be outside the scope of what Van Stone programming
was to be used for,” said Turpin. “But what the community business leader guild
is hoping is to design the plan under the umbrella of the Van Stone Productions
with the community center as part of it to qualify to ask for more funds,”
Turpin said
David Micky J, a Philadelphian, who is skilled as a national professional Michael
Jackson Impersonator activist and a push for more Black Owned Radio Station communications
professional in partnership with the VSP group, couldn’t agree more with Turpin
when it comes to whether an international house for the arts and education
about diversity is too huge a task for the Van Stone humanity work or not.
“Low-power nonprofit AM and FM stations and internet radio stations like Van
Stone’s WVSR1360 are the steady, small and big voices of media and the radio
personalities. They whisper out from basements and attics, and from grass roots
studios and on-the-fly live broadcasts like WVSR’s, says Micky J. “They have been
urban and often run by churches or houses like the one Van Stone is bringing
all together at the 5150 Walnut Street 2
nd floor location.”
According to Kashim Anthony Turpin, Antoinette Cook, as well as David Micky J, the concept the international
house for arts and education guild is hoping to propose for the cultural art room
would include a computer lab, a newspaper and radio studio, a space for dance, a
stage, meeting corners for communities plus cybercafé lobby area.
The next step following the GoFundMe campaign, according to both Cook and
Turpin, is for each international house for arts and education guild group to
meet with Van Stone Productions Foundation President Van Stone of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and representatives from the VSP and AKAstudios group to discuss new
planning for the local and surrounding communities.
“The space in the heart of the West Philadelphia community along Walnut
Street and 52
nd Street is most ideal because of its central location,”
says Van Stone. “The location serves a purpose to improve communities involving
people of international content and national content backgrounds.”
The Van Stone International House for Arts and Education Community Business
Leader guild- lead by AKAstudios in NY-will be hosting a launch party for the GoFundMe campaign shortly
in both 2018 and 2019.
In the meantime, to donate to the campaign now- visit: GoFundMe at:
https://www.gofundme.com/a73mx-home?sharetype=teams&member=711900&rcid=r01-153626274637-fce8df1abde84c12&pc=em_co_campmgmt_w.
