The owner of a Salt Lake City shop that sells preowned books and music hopes a community grant will allow him to transform his business into a cultural hub for the neighborhood.
Free concerts, art classes and poetry nights is how one small business would use a neighborhood grant.
As a dedicated music and arts lover, 9th and 9th Book and Music Gallery is a tribute to the craft in which Anderson has been immersed his whole life. The store sits at 872 E. 900 South, in an alley across the street from the Tower Theatre, and is filled with mostly locally sourced and pre-owned goods like books, records and instruments.
The aim, he said, is to create a “safe space” for everyone to feel welcome and showcase their art form. In the afternoons, Anderson said, kids stop by on their walk home from school, strum one of the many guitars and just hang out. Brandon A. Anderson points out the 9th and 9th Book & Music Gallery, which will soon have a wall mural as well as a stage in back of the building, on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022.East Liberty Park Community Organization
Jason Stevenson, the co-chair of ELPCO, describes the organization as “a volunteer local government” that keeps the neighborhood informed and acts as a “sounding board” for larger city policy discussions. The ELPCO isInspired by similar city art grants, the ELPCO boost grant money bloomed from the popularThe boost grant is a way to “give back to the community” Stevenson said, by encouraging innovative projects that uplift the neighborhood, which contains 4,000 households.
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