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Click on the links below to see 5-County Arts Fund 2003 Grant Award Recipients for that county.
Bucks County
Chester County
Delaware County
Montgomery County
Philadelphia County
Regional
Bucks County
Algonquin Indiefest
$2,053
Promotes low-budget, independent film in the "genius belt" between Philadelphia and New York. Movies are screened in Bucks County and Lambertville, NJ venues. This film festival offers workshops to help indie filmmakers and inform cinephiles.
Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation
$4,107
First Night Bristol 2004 is the 9th annual alcohol-free Celebration of the Arts on New Year's Eve that offers the community a shared cultural experience through a program of visual and performing arts, followed by midnight fireworks.
Bucks County Housing Group, Inc.
$2,195
To fund a multicultural art program that includes art lessons for homeless and low-income children and a mural project for homeless families in Morrisville.
Council Rock School District Music Department
$401
Composition professor Robert Maggio will conduct a Master Class and Composition Seminar for Council Rock students interested in the art of original music composition.
Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
$4,309
Celebrating DVPO's 50th Season, this concert, "Ode to Joy" will feature an original commissioned work composed by Richard Brodhead (Temple University), and performed by Bucks County's only professional symphony orchestra.
First Night Newtown
$3,802
First night Newtown is a visual performing arts festival, which welcomes in the New Year in a family oriented, non-alcoholic celebration of the arts.
George School Day Camp
$2,281
Fund a growing artist series for campers. Artist conduct small group workshops and then perform for larger camp audience.
Historic Fallsington, Inc.
$1,016
Summer concert series; featuring 3 live performance bands with historic narrative and audience participation.
Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society
$1,384
The Mercer Museum will develop and install an exhibit of outdoor sculpture, entitled "A Concrete Menagerie," featuring the work of sculptor Robert Cannon of Princeton, NJ.
Musica 2000 - The Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
$4,309
Musica 2000 will present interactive educational outreach programs in 14 Central Bucks elementary schools that focus on "Endangered Species" instruments- tuba, trombone, horn, cello and double bass.
Newtown Chamber Orchestra
$4,208
The intention of this project is to provide support for the performances of Newtown Chamber Orchestra in collaboration with three Pennsylvania guest artists.
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen
$4,208
To fund a series of workshops to the general public in several craft media.
Yardley Makefield Branch, Bucks County Free Library
$1,874
To support the presentation of music and dance traditions of various cultures to the general public, families in our community, children age 5 and up.
YWCA of Bucks County
$4,107
The YWCA of Bucks County is requesting funding for its Creative Story Hour, a yearlong arts and literacy program that provides exposure to the creative arts for disadvantaged pre-school children.
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Chester County
Barley Sheaf Players
$2,955
The Barley Sheaf Players seek funding for our youth and family theatrical productions as well as both of our outreach groups. This funding will enable us to offer gratis performances and workshops.
Chester County Art Association
$3,110
The "Beat of Art" concert series will draw in new audiences to CCAA's galleries by providing free musical performances to the public.
Chester County Library
$1,496
The Chester County Library System will partner with The People's Light and Theater Company to engage community youth and adults in an interactive exploration of the award-winning book, Holes.
Design Corps
$1,774
Construction of Baker Station Housing will create carefully designed housing for 32 migrant farm workers in Chester County.
Downingtown Area School District
$2,862
Downingtown Senior High School will partner with People's Light & Theatre Company to undertake a two-week residency for two 12th grade English classes.
Great Valley School District
$2,986
The Great Valley School District will present a 3-day dance project with Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre.
Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus
$3,040
The "World Beat Retreat 2004" will be the first annual performing arts workshop, hosted by the Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus, for the purpose of bringing together culturally diverse youth through music.
Octorara Community Recreation Commission
$2,779
Theater project that immerses the participants in all aspects of the theater and results in public performances.
Oxford Area Senior Center
$1,043
To fund their painting instruction classes to artistic members culminating in a joint effort with the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce in hosting a Business Card Exchange/Art Show for business and community leaders.
Pennsylvania Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development Education Foundation
$2,944
To fund two student performances of "The Tempest", 2 student performances of "Richard III", 4 student workshops for area high school students, meet-the-artist community workshop and an evening community performance of Richard III.
Tempo (Music Association of Conestoga High School)
$2,779
Rachel Ferrell, a jazz vocalist and a graduate of Conestoga High School, will instruct the chorus in the use of the voice as an instrument. Students will experiment with technique and demonstrate the techniques in performances.
West Chester Dance Works Dance Company
$2,670
The project includes performing the original dance production entitled "The Perfect Gift" as a part of "Old Fashioned Christmas in West Chester" festivities and subsequent outreach performances.
West Chester Poetry Reading Series, The
$1,008
The 2003-04 West Chester Poetry Reading Series features this year, four noted poets of wide-ranging style, experience, and cultural perspective.
West Whiteland Friends of the Park
$3,152
Seven free concerts held in a community park on Sunday Evenings in the summer. A variety of music is presented including pop, rock, Broadway show tunes, and military bands.
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Delaware County
Chestnut Brass Company
$2,925
The Chestnut Brass Company is an internationally touring brass quintet, which performs on both modern and historical instruments. The ensemble would present day long "residencies" in three communities, including two school programs and a community concert.
Consulate General of Israel in cooperation with Martins Run
$3,212
Residency of Israeli classical pianists. Public performance at Martins Run with Philadelphia-based-string trio.
Coopertown Elementary School
$3,612
To create a ceramic mosaic mural to be a permanent fixture at the school.
Delaware County Symphony
$3,525
Symphony orchestra concert featuring, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, American composer Alan Hovhaness--and other eclectic masterpieces.
Journey Home
$4,178
Middle School aged children who are at risk for substance abuse, violence, and/or mental health problems will participate in an after school art program which they will work in four creative teams to create visual and musical interpretation of personal empowerment themes selected by the children.
Media Fellowship House
$2,166
A multicultural storytelling festival, family and children oriented, held in the community setting of downtown Media, PA. Dedicated to exploring the diversity of storytelling, poetry, dance and music from around the world.
NATYA Academy of Indian Classical Dance
$3,351
Natya is giving a full-length dance performance with live music as part of the Centennial Celebration for Rukmini Devi Arundale, a leading figure in the Indian cultural renaissance in the twentieth century.
Senior Community Services
$3,525
Fostering active and creative aging is at the essence of SCS' mission to keep older adults independent. The 5-county Arts Fund will help SCS offer an array of classes, including watercolor, oil and acrylics, clay modeling and digital photography.
Strings for Schools
$4,135
To support the high school workshop/community concert component of an all-schools residency project, "Airports of the World" to take place in Chester, PA.
The Berry & Nance Dance Projects at Swarthmore College
$3,583
"Male Tales" is a collaborative dance/theatre work that speaks to the cultural predicament of growing up African American and male in the United States. It aims to empower African American audiences and enlighten others.
TOVA, Artistic Projects that Speak for Social Change
$4,135
Beyond the Walls will be an original Theater of Witness piece with men serving life sentences (video projection) and performers who are victims of crime, families of inmates and recently released inmates that will be performed in low-income communities.
Upper Darby School District Performing Arts Center
$3,482
Three performances of professional children's theater productions for the public and three for students.
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Montgomery County
Ambler Theater, Inc.
$1,743
The Film Focus Lecture Series brings knowledgeable film historians, critics, educators, and filmmakers to lead programs that include film clips and audience participation on a full range of topics.
Amity Children's Theater
$1,956
ACT will offer public performances of the musical "the Wizard of OZ" with children ages 5-17 comprising the cast of characters. The artistic disciplines represented are dance, acting, vocal and technical.
Artist in Residence Committee, Penn Wyne Elementary School Home and School assoc.
$2,717
A 3-week residency, Kid-friendly Shakespeare to our elementary school. This program, created by Diane Herr, will expose our students to the plays and language of William Shakespeare through theater presentations and classroom activities.
Becoming Center at Artman Lutheran Home
$2,397
"The Good News About Me" will take a group of girls, ages 11 through 13, through the process of developing a public exhibit of their own artwork, from conceptual development, artistic execution, and exhibit planning through to the hosting of a public opening.
Centro Cultural Latinos Unidos, Inc.
$3,094
To educate the greater Pottstown community about the diversity of the Latin American Culture.
Cheltenham Elementary School
$3,630
Cheltenham Elementary 3rd and 4th grade students will interview diverse members of the community and turn their stories into original songs with the guidance of musicians David and Jenny Heitler-Klevans, Two of a Kind.
Community Music School
$3,383
The Muhlenberg Piano Quartet will present the world premiere of its first commissioned work by area composer Eric Sessler.
Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania
$1,271
"Glitter World" will be an eight-week fabric sculpture workshop conducted by artist Eurhi Jones for girls ages 11-15. The project will result in a fabric sculpture "diorama" installation, envisioned, designed and created by the participating girls.
Jenkintown Day Nursery
$3,396
To provide a music teacher to introduce our children and teachers to singing, language development, dancing, listening, imagination and playing instruments through weekly classes.
Laura Lyn Stern
$1,970
This project proposal uses improvisational comedic theater as a way for middle and high school students to explore creative and expressive avenues. Three interrelated parts- demonstration, participation, and performance- will be covered during the course of this project.
Perkiomen Valley School District
$3,754
This is a multifaceted event that includes dance and musical performances in the auditorium and throughout the building, over 150 workshops on the visual and performing arts for children.
Pottstown Symphony Orchestra
$3,672
The Pottstown Symphony Orchestra will present a concert The Rites of Spring – an evening of Light Classics and Pops, as part of the Montgomery County Community College’s Lively Arts Series.
Schuylkill Valley Regional Dance Company
$677
Producing a dance concert that utilizes Modern Dance, African Dance, jazz, Post-Modern Dance, Irish Style, Comedy, and Gospel. The performance will be a culmination of workshops and classes in these dance genres.
Senior Citizen's Center of Ardmor
$2,059
To Fund a weaving class for frail senior citizens
Shirley Road Productions
$3,507
Ballycastle is a one-hour documentary for public television about Stuart Shills, a Philadelphia-based artist of Jewish heritage, whose life and work has been forever changed by his experience in a remote Irish village.
Storybook Musical Theatre
$2,574
This grant request is to assist with the artistic production costs of producing three musical adaptations for younger audiences; "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rapunzel", and "Wizard of Oz".
Temple Judea Museum
$3,713
From Emigrant to Immigrant: Stories of Coming and Becoming. The 20th century immigrant experience as an exhibition of original, contemporary works of art, photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and historic objects.
The Norristown Chorale
$3,383
The Norristown Chorale will present the Haure Requiem for orchestra and chorus utilizing the Norristown Chorale and its Sinfonia using 17 strings, 4 horns, an organ and a harp.
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Philadelphia County
215 Festival
$1,538
The 215 Festival exists to promote literary culture in Pennsylvania by organizing, in collaboration with other institutions, an annual celebration, to be held in Philadelphia, of diverse forms of contemporary literature and music, in addition to presenting smaller events throughout the year.
American Composers Forum - Philadelphia Chapter
$1,731
ACF-Philadelphia Chapter will partner with the Sedgwick Cultural Center and jazz composer and performer Ben Schachter to create an artist-in-residence program with the Center's Teen Jazz Workshop, an after-school program for area teenagers with an interest in jazz.
Consortium Sunshine Senior Center
$1,753
Through the medium of motion, movement and dance, members of the Consortium Sunshine Senior Center will uncover and share the trials and triumphs of their "Life Journey". Two live dance performances for peers and the larger community will conclude the project.
Curtis Institute of Music
$1,862
The Curtis Outreach Program provides cultural enrichment, educational demonstrations, and unique opportunities to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
Dit Wah Deng
$1,955
Kenderton students and the artist will create a site-specific, 32' x 8', brilliantly colored tile mosaic portraying the qualities of leadership and the concerns of their neighborhood, entitled "Pillars of Community".
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, The
$1,731
The Free Library of Philadelphia will present its second Teen Poetry Slam at the Central Library.
Freedom Choir of Philadelphia
$1,166
The "Youth With a Vision" project uses music, drama, and dance to assist participants with identifying and overcoming barriers to setting and reaching goals.
Friends of the Free Library
$1756
Salute the Voices of Philadelphia, spoken word poetry writing and performance workshops.
Friends of the Japanese House & Garden
$1,775
Program of traditional Japanese folk arts including music, dance, visual arts, to be presented at festivals, workshops, and summer cultural camp.
Gilbert Spruance School (School District of Philadelphia)
$1,778
To fund a ceramic tile mural which the students will plan and install with Philadelphia mural artist Isaiah Zagar.
Girls Action Initiative
$1,454
The Girls Action Initiative Saturday Arts Program is a performance exploration of personal and cultural identity in the lives of pre-adolescent girls in North Philadelphia. This year's workshop series focuses on theater and puppetry as vehicles for expression and community involvement.
HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy
$1,799
HMS School will commission an original dance incorporating dancers with disabilities from HMS and dancers from "Fusion2" the junior company of "Dancefusion."
Jonas dos Santos
$1,692
A multi-disciplinary and multi-generational project consisting of a series of workshops of painting, sculpture, costumes and poetry. The project will culminate with a performance/installation.
Jubilee School
$1,753
Jubilee School will design and paint a mural whose theme and inspiration is the Harlem Renaissance.
Lighthouse, Inc.
$1,644
An inter-disciplinary after school arts program engaging 25 community youth ages 12 to 18 in all aspects of the artistic video production of an original piece conceived, created, written, performed and produced by the youth in collaboration with a professional visiting artist.
MacGuffin Theatre and Film Company
$1,054
The new original musical, The Shipwreck, by John Rea will be developed, rehearsed and performed by over 25 youth between 8 and 17 yrs as part of MacGuffin's theatre education program.
Miriam Seidel
$1,753
Violet Fire is a multimedia opera project about the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, to be performed at Temple University. Its collaborative team includes a composer, writer, media artist, set designers, about ten singers and eight musicians.
Moonstone, Inc. El Festival Cubano
$1,906
El Festival Cubano is a citywide arts and culture festival, which includes, dance, art, film, photography, and writing.
Network Arts
$1,928
Philadelphia students from two schools will receive science lessons, art classes and extensive field trips, and then build mosaic murals incorporating their studies, leaving behind an educational tool for future generations of students and the general public.
Olive Dance Theatre
$1,709
To fund a free 8-week workshop for a select group of 5 Philadelphia emerging dance theatre artists and companies that will be selected to participate in the workshop. This workshop is a series of classes, rehearsals & showings coupled with development and feedback sessions for this collective.
Philadelphia Chapter of the American Harp Society
$1,149
The Jubal Trio will present the World Premiere of a new work by Philadelphia composer James Primosch, commissioned by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Harp Society.
Philadelphia Film Society
$1,622
To host the Philadelphia Festival of Independents (Fest Indies), a showcase of independent films from local and regional media makers. Held within the Philadelphia Film Festival, Fest Indies screens approximately 40 fiction and documentary films submitted by metro Philadelphia artists.
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
$1,641
To present orchestral classical music concerts to audiences in our community who normally are not exposed and do not have affordable access to this art form. This concert is for a North Philadelphia neighborhood.
Phrenic New Ballet Company
$1,842
To support the development, production and mounting of "Re-Creation" a full-length performance piece. Re-Creation will embrace new choreography and video art by Phrenic New Ballet, who will perform to original music by composer and jazz artist Uri Caine and the Relache Ensemble.
Reel Voices
$1,665
"Africa Film Series" is a monthly screening of films by African directors. The series showcases African films as a serious and functional art form, presenting a wide array of images of Africa and Africans from an African viewpoint.
Rennie Harris Puremovement
$1,688
To provide youth education through structured & constructive activities for at-risk youth, encourage creativity and literacy, and build self-confidence.
Roko Kawai
$1,000
To present a concert at the Painted Bride Art Center featuring several famous Japanese Classical Dance repertory that she has learned over the past 4 years and several works danced by her teacher, Sachiyo Ito.
Rosenbach Museum & Library
$1,780
To undertake the latest in its series of Neighborhood Mapping projects with a major partner school, Greenfield Elementary. With the help of video artist Michael O'Reilly, Greenfield's fourth-grade students will create an experiential video "map" of their neighborhood based on their own observations, drawings, and photos and their research in the Rosenbach collections.
Spiral Q Puppet Theater
$1,775
To support collaboration with neighborhood organizations focusing on puppet making with themes related to neighborhood concerns and dreams.
Spoken Hand
$1,692
To support the costs of six workshops to be presented as part of its March 2004 residency at the Painted Bride Art Center.
Tahiri'h Pleasant
$1,731
The Powers of the Quilt Project utilizes a folk and traditional art form--the African American quilt--as a therapeutic and practical tool to reach populations in crisis.
Tanya E. Hamilton
$1,671
Cinema Train Jamaica is a documentary on Jamaica's little-remembered cinema train of the early 20th century that frequently screened films in rural communities that were disenfranchised from the cities where political and social changes were afoot.
Trinity Center for Urban Life
$343
A series of three Classical/jazz concerts for members of the Philadelphia Senior Center, and for residents of the center city community. The program includes bus transportation from the Senior Center and back.
University City Arts League, Inc.
$1,699
To support an arts program directed to primary and secondary schools, utilizing UCAL gallery monthly shows for local artists. We propose to develop an arts curriculum for various age groups, delivered by in-house faculty and coordinated by UCAL administrative staff, based upon the gallery monthly shows.
University of the Arts
$1,767
The proposed project is a retrospective of paintings and drawings by Rosalyn Drexler, an American Pop artist along with a theatrical performance and readings
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Regional
American Poetry Center
$3,646
Distribution of American Poetry Center's documentary "Arthur B. Carles: Philadelphia Artist" to 100 regional institutions for free screenings during National Poetry Month in April 2004.
Carelink Community Support Services
$1,562
CareLink's project will provide interactive musical and visual arts workshops along with festival performances in music and dance. We will continue our efforts to build a culture of appreciation for the arts among our staff, the people we serve and the larger community.
Images of the Motherland Interactive Theatre
$1,749
Images of the Motherland: Interactive Theatre intends to present a multi-county production consisting of four free to minimum admission performances of the anti-gun/anti-violence dramatic production entitled "Songhai".
International Ballet Exchange
$3,518
A Ballet Residency Program in three Philadelphia Public Schools with ballet training for 30 weeks and a Collaborative Professional Production of the Donetsk Ballet of Ukraine.
Israeli Film Festival
$4,002
To fund the annual film series, offering the Greater Philadelphia area community- adults, seniors, students and the general public- the best of recent award winning Israeli films.
Juliette Stango
$3,650
T support the costs of production, related community educational activities, and performances of a collaborative new full evening music program which will bring together Juliette Stango in collaboration with two extraordinary young Philadelphia vocalists.
Kenneth Winikur
$3,694
Bet Herut: The end of the beginning is a one-hour personal documentary following co-filmmaker Eran Preis as he returns to his communal farming village in Israel to investigate the life and tragic death of village founder Nachman Ariel.
Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble
$3,386
To fund five free performances for physically disabled, seniors, and economically disadvantaged individuals.
Mad Poets Society
$3,694
Mad Poets Society is a non-profit organization of poets and writers who promote poetry through community readings, festivals, special events, student competitions open to poets regionally and nationally.
Merian Soto
$2,849
To support seven public performances of LA MAQUINA del TIEMPO. A new choreographic work exploring popular dance and music forms as "TIME MACHINES" rich in history and continuity.
Tom Reing
$2,849
To fund an acting and playwriting residency with teen mothers in a group home. The project will culminate in a stage performance of the mothers' work by the mothers, and a reading of a play inspired by the residency, written by Tom Reing, entitled 'I prayed you here."
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