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Dozens of Marietta arts and cultural groups seek FY27 tourism grants; Visit Marietta leads the requests
Summary
At the special Parks, Recreation & Tourism Committee meeting, Visit Marietta and more than a dozen cultural organizations — including Alley Stage, the Gone with the Wind Museum, Georgia Symphony and Marietta History Center — requested tourism grant funding for FY27 to support marketing, artist pay, facility maintenance and special programming.
The Parks, Recreation & Tourism Committee heard a sequence of tourism grant presentations from local arts, cultural and community organizations seeking FY27 funding. Visit Marietta’s executive director Brittany Grama (speaker 12) led off with a request to fund the destination marketing organization’s continued efforts, updated welcome center space and a request to cover Depot Street rent and maintenance (requested amount cited as $22,137.80).
“As the city's destination marketing organization, our job is to tell stories,” Grama said, introducing the city brand “Meet me on the square,” a new Black History landing page on the Visit Marietta website and paid strategies tied to…
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