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Click on the links below to see 5-County Arts Fund 2005 Grant Award Recipients for that county.
Bucks County
Chester County
Delaware County
Montgomery County
Philadelphia County
Regional
Bucks County
Algonquin Film Festival
$907
To support the Algonquin Film Festival which provides an annual forum for the exhibition of work done by regional idenpendent filmmakers and to host panel discussions and workshops to help inform both filmmakers and film lovers.
Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation
$2,112
To support the 11th annual First Night, an alcohol-free celebration of New Year's Eve that offers the community a shared cultural experience through a program of visual and performing arts encompassing dance, drama, literature, music, and art following by a midnight fireworks display.
Carl Sandburg Middle School Music Boosters
$1,838
To support a jazz celebration featuring exhibition performances by at least five middle school jazz bands followed by professional jazz musicians, and a lobby display of art work by Bucks County artists.
Central Bucks Healthier Community Team
$2,496
To support the Youth 2 Community Arts Series, a series of performing visual and vocal arts that includes a songwriting contest, open mic nights, a walking art tour through Doylestown, free art workshops, and performances at parks, restaurants, and local businesses.
Chamber Arts Guild
$2,414
To present a performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's choral ballet THE UNICORN, THE GORGON AND THE MANTICORE with chorus, nine instrumentalists and a dance troupe of 10. The performance will also include artwork and poetry done by the students at Lenape Middle School.
Dance Theatre of Pennsylvania
$1,811
To support Dance Theatre of Pennsylvania's production of Cinderella.
Green, Karena
$1,756
To support the film production of the 15th Century classical morality play “The Summoning of Everyman” for use in school literature classises.
Joint Downtown Newtown Corporation
$1,673
To support Aha! Friday, held the first Friday of each month which is designed to showcase and celebrate local arts (visual, performing, and film) and a vital downtown cultural scene. The combination of open houses and art walk highlights the diverse cultural venues located along Newtown's historic 'Main Streets' Corridor.
Katie Stauffer Memorial Arts & Cultural Center, Inc.
$1,752
To fund a summer arts camp which will consist of a series of one week classes for children aged 6-14 in a variety of artistic disciplines.
Quakertown Alive
$1,866
To support a family-oriented juried fine arts and crafts show that also features musical performances, and takes place outdoors in historic downtown Quakertown.
Village Library of Wrightstown
$2,195
To fund the Village Renaissance Faire, a two-day community celebration providing a multi-disciplinary, interactive approach to the visual and performing arts through more than seventy-five (75) performances, exhibitions, and free lessons. This family-friendly event features hands-on learning experiences within a re-created historical context.
Voices, Inc.
$2,277
To support a community outreach program that will provide free VOICES Chorale concerts in Bucks County assisted living facilities, and provide singing scholarships to financially underprivileged singers.
YWCA of Bucks County
$2,277
To support the Hoofing Project, a dance training workshop that provides exposure to the creative arts and opportunities for expression through dance for children who attend the YWCA Summer Camp in Morrisville, Pennsylvania.
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Chester County
Avon Grove Public Library
$2,047
We support public programs that educate and involve participants on neon as an art form. The project will be a collaboration between artist and community on a neon sculpture/sign that will be installed by the artist in the library's front window.
BMD Performing Arts Center
$2,204
To support an amateur teen production of Bye-Bye Birdie at the BMD Performing Arts Center. The professionally produced production is designed to benefit Chester County by providing live performance opportunities (dancing, singing, and acting) to aspiring musical theater students grades 9 - 12, including special needs students of varying ability levels.
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills
$1,984
To support 'Evening with the Arts', two evening performances and workshops for adults with special needs. One evening will feature Ovidiu Marinsecu, an cellist and conductor. The second will feature a collaboration between local poets and musicians.
Coatesville Area Arts Alliance
$1,653
To fund a 3-day film/video festival including workshops, talks by entrants about their films, live music and spoken word between screenings, art demonstrations, and a food court.
Downingtown Area Senior Center, Inc.
$576
To support two performances of International Folk Sounds, presenting 'Music from Boston to the Balkans.'
Great Valley School District
$2,231
To support a 3-day music residency project with the Vega String Quartet. The project will include 5 one-hour performances, master , and an evening community performace and a pre-program meet the artist session.
Ham, Marianne
$2,257
To present a series of exhibits of photographic images of women farmers that express their passion for the land, commitment to saving the family farm, and their entrepreneurial spirit.
International Institute for Theatre Research
$2,073
To support Fiesta Latina, a community wide street festival to be held June 2006 in Coatesville. The event includes a give-away of traditional foods; music - both recorded and live, traditional and contemporary; dance performances; activities for children; vendors and Salsa Dance in the evening. All events are free.
Kulu Mele African-American Dance Ensemble
$2,257
To present three free Afro-Cuban dance and drumming performances for underserved audiences in Coatesville, Norristown, and Philadelphia.
Miller, Lynn
$1,062
To support the Firebird Festival which includes sculpture, ceramics, dance, storytelling, fire dancers, video, music performances, drum ensemble and giant puppets.
Owen J. Roberts School District - North Coventry Elementary School
$1,372
To fund part of a dragon festival at North Coventry Elementary School where 4th Grade students will collaborate with Ceramic Artist Tom Thomas to create a sculptural dragon releif for the north wall of the sculpture garden.
Oxford Area Senior Center
$1,488
To support arts and crafts classes with local artisans, all of which are provided to senior citizens of Southern Chester County.
West Whiteland Friends of the Park
$2,126
To support a free concert series in community park.
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Delaware County
Celebration Theater
$2,655
To support a production of the thriller 'Rope' in October 2005.
Chester Arts Alive
$1,991
To support the Chester Arts Alive Family Holiday Festival which will promote cultural discovery, universal communications and help the residents share their experiences, accomplishments, and creative practice of diversity in and around their communities.
Chester Eastside Ministries
$1,991
To support the Saturday Cultural Arts Program which will introduce 20 children, ages eight through 12, to a venue of visual and performing arts. The course consists of two classes each Saturday, and includes, snacks, fields trips, and a certificate of completion for each child.
ContempraDance Theatre
$1,543
To fund a collaboration between choregraphers, dancers, a composer with live musicians, and a visual artist to be premiered for students participating in ContempraDance Theatre's Youth Regional Dance Festival.
Delaware County Library System
$2,788
To support theatre performer and storyteller Vicky Town’s performances at all 26 Delaware County Library System member libraries.
Lansdowne Folk Club
$2,124
To support the Lansdowne Folk Club's 2005/2006 Concert Series.
Media Business Authority
$2,755
To support the 3rd annual Jazz by Night Fest, a community-based celebration of diverse sounds from the world of Jazz. The fest features 14 regional jazz acts and 45 jazz artists.
NIA Center as Part of the Freeman Arts Complex
$2,489
To support art classes for youth in Chester for ages 5-15 taught by local artists.
Suburban Music School
$1,411
To support the Visiting Artists Program which sends faculty to collaborating schools to provide music instruction, participation, and exposure to students at no cost to the host school.
Swarthmore Rutledge School
$1,917
To support a multi-faceted program using dance, drumming, masquerade, and other features to teach about African culture in a third grade social studies curriculum.
Upper Darby School District Performing Arts Center
$2,456
To support community and student performances of the Russian American Kids Circus
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Montgomery County
Carmel Presbyterian Church/ Concerts at Carmel
$1,850
To fund Concerts at Carmel, a music series that includes two chamber music concerts, an organ and piano recital and an interactive children's concert.
Centro Cultural Latinos Unidos, Inc.
$1,913
To support of an inter-generational summer arts program 'Art & Education in Pairs,' featuring classes in visual arts and crafts, creative writing and dance that reflect the artistic and cultural heritage of Latinos and are designed to increase self-awareness and foster community pride in Latino culture.
Choristers of Upper Dublin
$1,866
To fund the 2005-2006 season of The Choristers, a concert choir.
Dowlin, Nancy
$1,961
To support a set of 12 concerts (one per month) of music from the 1930's to 1960's at the North Penn Adult Day Care Center.
Drozdova, Elena
$1,866
To support a community stained glass project. The windows will be designed and painted by the artsit and students of NASD.
Eastern Montgomery Cultural Enchancement Endeavor
$1,417
To support professional theatrical performances for children. Emcee obtains corporate and foundation sponsors to send children, predominantly underpriviledged, to the school-oriented shows at no charge to the families of the children.
Evans, K.
$1,892
To support an educational series of 5 puppet theatre productions. Each production was chosen for its value when added to a school's curriculum. The shows chosen provide spanish language, species evolution, classic literature, and cultural and historical mythology.
Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania
$1,276
To fund 'Whoever You Are: Cultural Doll Making', a week long workshop that will allow girls to explore their cultural heritage and create a doll using her personal interpretation of her cultural background with guidance from local artist Patty Greenspoon.
Jenkintown's Community Alliance
$2,197
To support the Jenkintown Jazz and Fall Fest, Jenkintown's premiere event drawing an estimated crowd of 3,500 jazz enthusiasts to this one-day event. Local residents and surrounding community visitors enjoy live music by nationally recognized musicians( Jon Faddis, Sonny Fortune, Curtis Weaver and Curtis Fuller to name a few), taste curbside cuisine by the various local restaurants as well as participate in children's activities. Free to public.
Montgomery County Concert Band
$1,471
To fund nationally-known band clinician Anthony Maiello clinic focusing on improving the ensemble. The clinic will be followed by a free public concert where Professor Maiello would guest conduct.
Music At Abington/Abington Presbyterian Church
$2,079
To support Music at Abington who will bring a flutist and pianist, a violist, a percussionist, a boychoir & a handbell choir into the community to perform concerts for the enrichnment of the public. These concerts are offered free of charge and childcare is provided.
Norristown Chorale
$850
To present the Rutter Requiem at its major works concert March 25, 2006. The Chorale will be accompanied by a professional pianist and a chamber strings, harp and organ, and two soloists.
Pagus Gallery
$1,724
To support a gallery of contemporary art: to provide an opportunity for borough high school students to attend lectures, have student exhibitions, aid in preparing seniors for further art education and provide opportunities for workshop attendance and residency.
Pennsylvania Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development Education Foundation
$2,150
To fund a 3-day project with the nationally known dance/music group Step Afrika: five one-hour student programs and a community master class plus an evening community performance proceeded by a Meet the Artist session.
Perkiomen Valley School District
$1,890
To support a one day event bringing together dozens of artists working in dance, music, and visual media to educate and entertain the Perkiomen Valley community.
Pottstown Downtown Foundation
$1,772
To support the creation of a sculpture park in Pottstown’s revitalizing downtown district.
Senior Citizen's Center of Ardmore
$2,079
To fund a weekly weaving instructor for blind and frail senior citizens at the Center.
The Gallery School of Pottstown
$1,368
To provide an after-school art program in an underserved arts community, open to low-moderate income children.
The Peak Center
$1,311
To support PEAK Performances, a concert series that brings professional caliber musicians and dance artists to audiences of older adults in low cost matinee performances. The program makes the performing arts available to seniors who otherwise may not have access to them due to low income and decreased ability to travel.
Township of Cheltenham
$2,032
To support a local sculptor in working with township residents and area business owners to develop a 6' public art sculpture that will serve as a cultural focus on the community to identify and portray a sense of place.
Valley Forge Children's Theatre
$2,012
To support VFCT, an adult-acted professional theater for children that will offer three mainstage productions during their 2005-2006 season: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Pinnochio; and Charlotte's Web.
Village Production
$2,055
To support a children’s theater workshop followed by Winter/Spring rehearsals with adult cast members culminating in comprehensive musical theater production in May 2006.
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Philadelphia County
40th Street Artist-in-Residence
$1,424
To support the 40th street Artist-in-Residence program of outreach activities by resident artists, including classes for children, community-based art projects, and the creation of an art gallery for the program.
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
$1,785
To support a project that will seek to merge and disseminate three student-produced videos that address issues of culture and identity from the perspective of teenagers of Palestinian heritage.
Anderson, Charles
$1,480
To support development of the community outreach choreographic component 'Parables of Mutants and Madmen' to be premiered in June of 2006.
Bainbridge House
$1,756
To support The Cultural Arts project for students in Grades One through Five at Stanton School. The project uses the four art forms: Visual Arts, Music, Drama, and Dance.
Centro Nueva Creacion
$1,597
To support the Goodland Photography Project which trains young artists in photography and celebrates there work in gallery and street shows.
Commonwealth Youthchoirs (Keystone State Boychoir & Pennsylvania Girlchoir)
$1,561
To support a series of free concerts and choral music lessons to introduce the excitement of choral music to elementary and middle school aged children, and to encourage them to join a rofessional youth choir.
Curio Theatre Company
$1,493
To support an outreach program with the goal to engage children in aspects of theatrical performance to enhance academic achievement.
Curtain Call Creations
$1,496
To support the production of a full length musical written and produced by students, and facilitated by the city's best professional artists.
Deng, Dit
$1,764
To support the creation of a 'Community Compass', four 2' x 2' x 8' fiberglass and tile mosaic sculptures defining needs and assets within the Nicetown-Tioga community, as well as the physical boundaries and unbounded spirit of the neighborhood.
dos Santos, Jonas
$1,639
To support a multi-disciplinary project consisting of a series of workshops using recycled materials to create sculptures. A very large sculptural book and a series of small books will be created with the participants which will aid their academic achievement.
Fishman-Johnson, Ellen
$1,635
To fund the Girls Composition Workshop, a ten-week music class for girls age 11 to 19 from the greater Philadelphia area. Participants will work with composer Ellen Fishman-Johnson to develop a song to be performed by professional musicians at a public concert.
FreshVisions Youth Theatre (Greater Phila Urban Affairs Coalition)
$1,639
To fund a theatre to give underserved youth (largely African-American) the transformative experience of disciplined, collaborative, creative work.
Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers
$1,480
To support PhillyPitch, which offers educational classes in screenwriting and presentation with the goal of training locals to 'pitch' their story ideas to influential industry professionals who can help bring these projects to production in our region.
Griffin, Laureen
$1,311
To support an after school arts integrated learning initiative which nurtures the social, educational, spiritual and therapeutic growth and cross cultural service of girls (13-19) in a group home setting using photography and video.
Heyman, Daniel
$1,691
To fund the design and printing of five silkscreen prints to be installed in a larger instalation exhibit at Eastern State Penitentiary in summer 2006. These prints will be mounted outside a cell in which approximmately 100 paper scultptures of Iraqi Abu Ghraib Prisoner 'ghosts' are suspended.
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
$1,528
To support Tamagawa Taiko, a group of traditional Japanese dancers and taiko drummers from Tamagawa University in Tokyo, to perform as part of the two-week Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia.
Junction Dance Theatre
$1,480
To present the Philadelphia premiere of i.e., Harmony, a 75-minute dance theater performance performed by three dancers and two actors.
Latin Fiesta, Inc.
$1,472
To present a one-day event entitled, 'Latinos: Many Roots...Many Faces,' featuring artists performing Spanish and Latin American music and dance.
Levy, Matthew
$1,756
To support the composition of a 15-minute work for the PRISM Quartet, scored for soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones.
Lighthouse, Inc.
$1,658
To implement a mixed media artist-in-residence program in our after school program serving low-income children in our community, ages 10-13 years old. Children and artists will create individualized hand made art books about life in North Philadelphia from the perspective of the young people.
Mill Creek Community Partnership
$1,480
To support ‘Fine Arts Through Our Eyes’, a series of creative fine arts workshops serving 20 primarily African American children and youths, ages 9-15, who reside in the Mill Creek, Belmont, and Mantua areas of Philadelphia.
Multicultural Youth Exchange
$1,224
To fund three free printmaking workshops entitled 'Cultural Imprints' in which students from central, west, and south Philadelphia environment which have left an indelible 'imprint' on Philadelphia's cultural identity.
Naylamp Street & Puppet Theater
$1,743
To support the theatrical production 'The Popol Vuh', a play produced by and for the Latino community. Naylamp will recruit and train members of this community to create a professional quality group that will perfom its work thoughout the metropolitan area.
Philadelphia Ceili Group
$1,660
To support a three-day festival of traditional Irish music and dance. Classes and workshops will be held in various intruments and in Irish dance. There will be a series of concerts featuring some of the best Irish/Irish-American performers.
Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY)
$1,618
To support ‘The Picasso Project’ which promotes and supports arts education and exposure to the arts for Philadelphia public school students who otherwise would not have them as part of the curriculum.
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts
$1,493
To support a retrospective of Philadelphia artist Stuart Netsky.
Spiral Q Puppet Theater
$1,618
To support the ‘Neighborhood Parades and Pageants’ program including the Peoplehood and UpNorth Parades in which participants constuct puppets, banner and flags and create narrative performances which are shared through the parades.
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Art Goes to School of the Delaware Valley, Inc.
$1,281
To support presentations of art reproductions and sculptures in local schools. This project will enhance the portfolios by including more culturally diverse works to complement the largely traditional works already owned.
ConcertOPERA Philadelphia
$1,326
To support the historically accurate production of Henry Purcell's DIDO AND AENEAS featuring established professional musicians, young artists, and community members at venues in and around Philadelphia, PA.
Greencastle Productions Inc.
$1,007
To support a documentary on theaters and live arts festivals in Philadelphia and surrounding counties while educating at-risk youth in television production, offering a creative career choice. The documentary will air several times on PBS, Radnor Studio 21 and Phantom TV 4, Phoenixville.
Owen J. Roberts School District
$1,611
To support a three-day residency in Japanese Drumming featuring the five member group Taiko Masala.
PEACETALKS
$1,080
To support a program which uses radio 'theater' to highlight new solutions to violence. Stories of inspiring individuals are woven together with music to create documentaries that move people to action.
Philadelphia Music Makers Magazine
$1,226
To support a quarterly magazine, 50+ pages in length. Its mission is to stimulate interest and foster support for Philadelphia's classical music world.
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
$1,592
To present two classical music orchestral concerts to audiences in North Philadelphia and Chester.
Riukas, Diana
$1,428
To support an artistic collaboration with the Women's Caucus for Art which will involve drawing, painting, collage making, and writing on individual fabric panels that are then sewn together into a sculptural creation dress which symbolizes the theme of 'reaching out.' Activites will include a series of workshops and public art-making events, and a public exhibition.
Suburban Philadelphia Arts in Education Consortium
$1,464
To support a project with Beth Nielson Chapman titled ‘Woman Behind Bars’. The project will include 6-one hour interactive performances in Chester County public and non-public schools, two song writing workshops for area high school students, a community Meet the Artist workshop and an evening community performance.
The Time to Share Foundation
$970
To support a documentary that examines problems US veterans (WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf) faced after coming home, and how they’ve readjusted and helped other veterans.
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