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Speaker 1: All these adults are here at the Children's Museum to

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Speaker 1: celebrate the state's Card to Culture program, where cultural institutions

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Speaker 1: across the Commonwealth provide free or deeply discounted admissions to

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Speaker 1: individuals who hold WICC, EBT, or connector Care cards. I

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Speaker 1: asked David Slatery, acting executive director of the mass Cultural Council,

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Speaker 1: what they're celebrating here.

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Speaker 2: Since we started counting this program nine years ago, we

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Speaker 2: have recorded over three million admissions of over six hundred

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Speaker 2: organizations throughout Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: So you're celebrating three million, three million exactly, He says.

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Speaker 1: The message sent by the Card to Culture program is

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Speaker 1: that everybody deserves to have access to the arts. From

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Speaker 1: the Boston Children's Museum. Carl Stevens WBZ, Boston's news radio