Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Click on the links below to see 5-County Arts Fund 2006 Grant Award Recipients for that county.

Bucks County Performing Arts Center
$1,730
To support two diverse arts education residency programs: ten elementary/middle school acoustic blues assemblies and one family centered acoustic blues performance; and, 19 elementary school interac

Bucks County Symphony Society
$1,629
To present three (3) classical music concerts for the public. Each concert will include a soloist (often, but not always a leading performer with the Philadelphia Orchestra) and a major symphonic work.

Carl Sandburg Middle School Music Boosters
$1,649
To support a jazz celebration featuring exhibition performances by at least five middle school jazz bands followed by professional jazz musicians. Clinics with jazz educators for each school group following their performance.

Children's Cultural Center
$1,771
To support two (2) Special Events programs for school age chilren and families with young children. The first will be a non-violent Punch and Judy puppet show presentation in December, and the second will be a dance perfor

Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
$1,486
To present a symphonic concert on February 17, 2007 aimed at encouraging young people to attend and get involved. This concert features our Youth in the Arts initiative, a co-performance with the Council Rock

Doylestown School of Music and the Arts
$1,466
To support The Stretched Strings music performance and education series with a
focus on the music of the acoustic guitar. Each event in the series features a guest artist and resident artist and includes an educational workshop.

Joint Downtown Newtown Corporation
$2,036
To support AHA! Friday, held the first Friday of each month to showcase and celebrate local arts (visual, performing, and film) and a vital downtown cultural scene in a welcoming, and spontaneous atmosphere that brings our community together.

Katie Stauffer Memorial Arts & Cultural Center, Inc.
$1,194
To support the Summer Arts Camp workshops for children aged 6-14, held from 9 AM to 4 PM weekdays, including drawing and painting, sculpture/clay, fiber arts and felting, and computer arts and digital editing.

Middletown Township
$1,914
To support The International Arts Festival, A Celebration of Our Cultural Heritage, a day long event featuring dancers, visual artists, craftspeople, musicians and storytellers representing cultures from around the world.

Newtown Chamber Orchestra
$1,629
To support a Kid's Classical Concert, the goal of which is to stimulate and nuture the appreciation of 'classical' music for elementary and middle school children.

Pennsbury Society
$1,588
To support Colonial Crossroads Festival, a two-day celebration featuring music and dance performances from twelve different cultures: African, Caribbean, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Native American, Scottish, Swedish, and Welsh.

Quakertown Band
$1,527
To fund commissioning of a new piece of music for concert band by local compser Aric Branchfield, in celebration of the band's 130th Anniversary in 2007. This work will then be performed by the band at its 130th Anniversary Concert in March.

VOICES
$1,669
To support a Community Outreach Program which will continue to provide free in-house VOICES Chorale concerts in four Bucks County assisted living facilities and provide free tickets to VOICES concerts to the assisted living residents and their families.

Association for the Colonial Theatre
$1,727
To present two performances by Hua Hua Zhang, a designer, choreographer and performer working in puppetry, of her show “East Meets West” at the Colonial Theatre, each followed by a 45-minute workshop.

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills
$1,600
To present two evenings of peformance incorporating poetry, jazz and classical music. Workshops will be offered in conjunction with performances so that participants can seek an individual voice within the context of community and work together.

Coatesville Traditional Irish Music Series
$1,511
To support performances and participatory workshops in various forms of Irish traditional music, song, and dance for Chester County and the surrounding communities. Artists are Irish or Irish-American performers outstanding in the presentation of & instruct

International Institute for Theatre Research
$1,554
To fund Fiesta Latina, a community-wide, street festival to be held in June 2007 on the Main Street in Coatesville, which has a large, diverse and growing Latino population. The event includes a give away of traditional foods prepared by members of various Lati

Kennett Amateur Theatrical Society
$1,065
To stage a pantomime in the British style for three performances in January 2007. A British pantomime is a piece of musical theater that adheres to plotting and cast conventions that date back 400 years.

Phoenixville Area School District
$1,511
To support a 3-day program with the musical group InPulse. This project will impact on all of the districts schools K-12 and will involve development of a study guide to use with the project keyed to PA’s Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities.

Suburban Philadelphia Arts in Education Consortium
$1,770
To support a 3-day artist residency with the Irish musical group Dervish. The project will be conducted in nonpublic/private schools with a community performance at Immaculata University.

The Brandywine Singers
$1,641
To present its fourteenth concert season Winter 2006-Spring 2007 by performing timeless music for diverse audiences in the Brandywine Valley region.

The LIFE Center
$1,554
To support The Living History Theatre Project, a weekly reminiscence theatre program that helps seniors revive their memories while strengthening mental and physical activities, developing coping skills and building friendships.

West Whiteland Friends of the Park
$1,554
To present seven free concerts in Miller Park.

YMCA of the Upper Main Line
$1,900
To support a Multicultural Arts series designed to promote diversity and cross-cultural understanding in our communities. The series is a joint project of The Lionville Community YCMA and the Upper Main Line YMCA.

Celebration Theater
$1,584
To support a December 2006 production of Cheaper By The Dozen.

Chester Eastside Ministries
$1,740
To support the Saturday Arts Dance Program, which will introduce 20 additional students, ages eight through twelve, to the basics of dance. The course consists of two classes each Saturday, and includes snacks, field trips and a certificate of completion for each child.

Crozer-Chester Foundation (on behalf of The Crozer Wellness Center)
$1,818
To support the creation of a community mural in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania. The project, conducted over a 12-week period, will be run in conjunction with a professional muralist and members of the Chester Youth Collaborative.

Delaware County Library System
$1,584
To bring acclaimed Master Storyteller, Narrator and Singer Charlotte Blake Alston to four Delaware County libraries to share African and African American oral and cultural traditions with young children.

Lansdowne Arts Festival/Lansdowne Economic Development Corporation
$1,673
To support the Lansdowne Arts Festival, which serves as a conduit of the arts, promotes and educate citizens regarding the arts, and showcases the artists of Lansdowne.

Media Arts Council
$1,807
To support the creation of a clay hands mural in a popular outdoor pedestrian mall. Working with artist Claire Brill, community members will have an opportunity to make a tile and create a lasting piece of public art for Media.

Media Business Authority
$1,487
To support the 4th Annual Jazz by Night Fest in Media, PA on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006. The event is a community-based celebration of diverse sounds from the world of Jazz music, featuring performances by 15 outstanding regional jazz acts.

NIA Center, Inc. at Freeman Cultural Arts
$1,897
To support a Festival of the Arts at Widener University that both celebrates and showcases the unique visual art of Chester Community children, grades K through high school, who receive artistic training through the NIA Center programs at the Freeman Cultural Art Complex.

Rose Valley Chorus and Orchestra
$1,785
To present six performaces each of two musical theater productions in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007. These will be fully staged and costumed all-volunteer productions of
'Pirates of Penzance' and 'Mame.'

Suburban Music School
$1,450
To support The Visiting Artists Program, which sends Suburban Music School faculty to collaborating schools to provide music instruction, participation, and exposure to students at no cost to the host school.

Summer Sounds
$1,528
To support three, free, multi-sited 'fakebook' publication parties with combined audiences to broaden the general public and Jewish community's knowledge about Klezmer.
Elaine Hoffman Watts will introduce Summer Sounds audiences, this Winter, to live Klezmer music.

Swarthmore Rutledge School
$1,611
To support the African Dance Program, an adjunct to 3rd grade social studies curriculum on Africa. It is a multi-faceted program using dance, drumming, masquerade and other features to teach about African culture.

Abington YMCA
$1,091
To support the education of 50 youth in art history and techniques. Additional education in a field trip to the art museum and finally, a production of art by the youth for display.

Artists Cooperative for Personal and Professional Advancement
$1,448
To support ACPPA in the creation of an after-school arts program for children of low income families in Norristown. These children, who otherwise may not have an opportunity to learn about or express themselves through art, will be able to attend visual arts classes.

Borough of Lansdale
$1,527
To support a free lunchtime concert series in Railroad Plaza, Main Street, Lansdale. Live concert performances on six consecutive Wednesdays from noon to 1:15 PM starting August 2 and ending September 27, 2006.

Carmel Presbyterian Church/ Concerts at Carmel
$1,322
To support Concerts at Carmel, a music series of the highest caliber. It includes two chamber music concerts, an organ concert and an interactive children's concert.

Choristers of Upper Dublin
$1,983
To support its 2006-2007 concert season that will include two Philadelphia premiers.

ContempraDance Theatre
$992
To support a collaborative project between choreographers Michelle Jones Wurtz and Gail Vartanian. A new dance piece will be premiered for a Youth Regional Dance Festival for over 100 student dancers that rarely have opportunity to see professional level dance.

Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania
$1,646
To support Storytelling Theater: Ethnic Folk Tales, a two-week performing arts workshop, which will provide girls with an exciting and creative forum to learn, rehearse and perform three ten-minute performance pieces based on timeless tales from around the world.

Jenkintown Project
$1,745
To support The Jenkintown Project, a community-based portrait of a small town seen through the lens of music, folklore, and oral history. The project seeks to bring disparate voices together through the medium of sound recording, performance, and discussion.

Kim Newell
$1,289
To support the creation of a 'Support the Arts' Art Car. Once completed, the Art Car will travel to special events (and random trips to the grocery store, etc.) to encourage regional art participation.

Lisa Kraus
$1,805
To support free performances of the dance/music collaboration 'the Partita Project,' for a variety of venues and populations, tailoring it for children, for the elderly, and in historic spaces.

Metropolitan Ballet Company
$1,805
To support its Family Concert Series, designed to introduce dance to a young audience. The October 2006 production will feature a ballet adaptation of the popular children's book 'The Rainbow Fish', a company premiere.

Montgomery County Cultural Center
$1,289
To support, Arts After Hours, which will take place on Saturday mornings(30) through 2006-07. The activities will include classes in performance theater, tech theater, art, music and dance. It will culminate in final performances for parents and community.

Music At Abington/Abington Presbyterian Church
$1,864
To support Music at Abington in bringing a pianist, several vocal groups, a handbell choir, and a college choir into the community to perform concerts for the enrichment of the public. These concerts will be offered free of charge and childcare will be provided.

Nancy Dowlin
$1,230
To present 12 concerts (one per month) of music from the 1930's-present at the Adult Day Care Center in Lansdale, PA. Seniors will request songs, which will be researched and arranged for voice, trumpet and guitar. The group will then be provided with lyric sheets for sing-along.

NBS Classical Music Institute
$1,864
To support a concert series in Montgomery County consisting of 3 events title 'Tango Explosion', 'Leaving Limbo' and 'Poetry and Sound'.

North Penn Arts Alliance
$1,487
To support a project engaging mentally-ill adults in creative thinking skills and personal expression through four twelve-week sessions of multimedia art classes taught by members of the North Penn Arts Alliance.

Orchard Artworks
$1,368
To support a fall Johnny Appleseed Festival celebrating art, literature and nature at Orchard Artworks, a fine art and craft cooperative located in an 18th Century farmhouse and apple orchard site.

The Peak Center
$1,618
To support PEAK Performances, a concert series that brings professional caliber musical and dance artists to audiences of primarily older adults in low cost matinee performances.

Pottsgrove School District
$1,805
To support a 3-day residency project with the Scottish musical group, Battlefield Band. This will include 6 one-hour performances for K-12 students, a master class, a Meet the Artist session, and a community performance for the general community.

Renaissance Artist Puppet Company
$1,785
To support a series of educational interdisciplinary puppet theatre productions covering multi-cultural, literary, scientific, mythological and historical subjects: Colores del Agua, Goblin Market, Tales from the Bayou, Washington's Campaign, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Franklin Tales, Ananse and the Sky God, and Irrepressible Araminta – the Harriet Tubman Story.

Richard Belcastro
$1,487
To support a collaborative project with the faculty of the Nelly Berman School of Music to create a collection of works for music students of all levels in order to help connect young musicians to contemporary music.

Theatre Horizon
$1,765
To support performance of “Madame Douce-Amere” by internationally-trained physical theatre artist, Emmanuel Delpech-Ramey. The production will occur in conjunction with a 3-day “clown workshop” for children and local drama instructors.

Township of Cheltenham
$1,745
To hire a local stone artisan to build a Wissahickon Schist masonry crenulated stone foundation wall with concase ends approximately 8-feet x 3-feet x 5-feet to serve as a foundation to attach a 2x3 bronze bas-relief of Glenside, which will serve as a cultural focal point for the community to identify and portray a sense of place in downtown Glenside.

Tri-County Honors Choir
$1,130
To support choir of 250 selected students from nine area high schools. The vocal directors from these high schools not only choose, but rehearse the choral literature which, in concert, is performed with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra.

Village Productions
$1,805
To support production of the musical Quilters, which will be a catalyst for women's history education, the production of which will coincide with Women's History Month, March 2007.

40th Street Artist-in-Residence
$1,253
To fund classes, workshops, and public art done by artists in the 40th St. Artist-in-Residence program and support exhibitions at the program's AIRSPACE gallery.

Ars Nova Workshop, Inc.
$1,233
To support seven jazz performances featuring critically-acclaimed duos and trios from New York, Norway, Philadelphia, Germany, Holland and Great Britain.

Asian Social Service Center, Inc.
$1,214
To support a performing arts and music event, as part of the Vietnamese New Year (Tet) celebration. The event will expose the public to Vietnamese arts and educate Vietnamese-American youth about their cultural and artistic heritage.

Bainbridge House
$1,233
To support the Cultural Arts Project in providing every student at E. M. Stanton School, (grades K - 7) with an awareness of, exposure to, and experiences in the arts by bringing the arts into the classroom setting and sending students out of the classroom to the arts.

Benjamin Herold
$1,253
To support First Person, a feature-length documentary film chronicling the experiences of six Philadelphia public high school students as they prepare for college. Student-shot video diaries are combined with professionally shot footage of students in their homes, neighborhoods, and schools.

Center City Opera Theater
$1,214
To support its OPERAtunites in Education program and its productions of its five OPERA ENCORE Series, which this season are operas based on Great Works of Literature, as well as the educational materials in support of its world premiere performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray this June.

Centro Nueva Creacion
$1,331
To support The Goodlands Photography project, which trains young people in North Philly in the art of photography. These youth then use their photographic skills to capture the cultural richness and assets of their neighborhood, while disproving the negative images of "The Badlands," created by local media.

Curio Theatre Company
$962
To support Project Integrated Arts, a collaborative venture between Curio Theatre Company, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lea Elementary School, that has successfully operated continually since September 2005, with the goal for children to engage in aspects of theatrical performance to enhance academic achievement and personal development.

Curtain Call Creations
$1,316
To support an after-school arts in education program that offers middle and high school students workshops in all aspects of theater including creative writing, acting, singing, dancing, set design, costume design, and technical theater.

Ellen Fishman-Johnson
$585
To support the Girls Composition Workshop, a ten-week music class for girls ages 11 to 19 from the Greater Philadelphia area. Participants will work with composer, Ellen Fishman-Johnson to develop a piece to be performed by professional musicians.

FreshVisions Youth Theatre
$1,233
To support a theatre to give underserved youth (largely African-American) the transformative experience of disciplined, collaborative, creative work. Classes are offered year round, and at least four public productions are staged receiving at least four performances each.

Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Inc.
$1,175
To support the “Philadelphia: Memory and Change” project, a series of 4 visual arts workshops and an exhibition that will explore individual recollections of and community responses to the evolving urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Workshop participants will delve into self-expression and community reaction through a variety of artistic mediums.

Greater Philadelphia Overseas Chinese Association
$1,292
To support a 40 week class in Chinese folk dance, including ancient, current, and nationality dances to the after-school youth participants ages 7 to 14 years in order to preserve the Chinese dance tradition within the ethnic Chinese community in Philadelphia.

Hotel Obligado
$1,214
To support the development of an original, ensemble-created theatrical production that explores the emotionality lying behind the sexual risks gay men tend to take when using crystal methamphetamine. The production will draw upon a combination of theatrical forms including mask work, contact acrobatic choreography, and object manipulation.

Michael Pollack
$1,220
To support a quarterly literary journal that covers the contemporary and idiosyncratic experience of life in Philadelphia and the world beyond.

Mill Creek Community Partnership
$1,282
To support the Fine Art Through Our Eyes program, a series of creative contemporary and fine arts workshops, serving 30 primarily African-American children and youths, ages 9-16, who reside in the Mill Creek, Belmont, and Mantua areas of Philadelphia. The workshops will be held on Saturday mornings from January through June 2007.

Naylamp Street & Puppet Theater
$1,235
To support 'Memories from Fires' and 'Voice Alive', a two-stage theater production (play and street theater) to be produced by and for the Latino community. Naylamp Street & Puppet Theater will recruit and train members of Philadelphia's fastest growing demographic sector to create a professional quality group.

New Kensington Community Development Corporation
$1,406
To support the redevelopment of a long-neglected playground through a multi-tiered public art project. In creating artistic space, design and painting workshops will bring art and activities to the community, engage neighbors, provide sense of place and develop pride and ownership.

Olde Kensington Redevelopment Corporation/Spring Garden Senior Center
$1,316
To support a project in which the participants will explore thier capabilities in pottery making, drama, dance movement, drawing and watercolor.

Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc.
$1,266
To support a literary magazine that publishes authors from many genres on its quarterly website, as well as in its annual print anthology. The Painted Bride Quarterly also contribute to Philadelphia's local live arts culture by hosting monthly literary performances in the Philadelphia area.

Philadelphia Center for the Book
$1,297
To support a partnership with the Kelly Writers' House to hold Challenging Collections, a workshop and panel discussion, and Arte Pagina, an exhibition. Both will be focused on artist books and their collections.

PHILADELPHIA READS/GPUAC
$1,266
To support program in which students in 23 Philadelphia Reads Summer READS camp sites (SWARM) receive music instruction and art instruction from PAFA and Academy of Community Music throughout the summer program. Musical instruments and art materials are provided for these programs.

Philadelphia Recreation Department
$1,112
To support the Senior Art Camp, two weeklong encampments of instructional classes to anyone 55 and older in painting, watercolors, drawing, fabric art and decorative art using dried natural materials. Each session culminates with the campers’ artwork on exhibit.

Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
$1,266
To support the first Philadelphia screening of “The Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts,” a film series by artist David Gatten.

Please Touch Museum
$1,313
To support its Multicultural Artist in Residence program. The Residencies will include discplines of painting, sculpture, collage, mural arts and African hut building.

Resources for Human Development
$1,220
To support Oasis, an artist-run studio and community center providing quality of life services for people who have been marginalized by chronic homelessness, mental retardation, mentall illness, or substance abuse. Through classes, workshops, public exhibitions, and special events, Oasis helps people rebuild their lives and reintegrate into the community.

Ron Kanter
$1,388
To support “New Cops,” a one-hour video documentary which explores the values and attitudes of Philadelphia police officers by following them through eight months of training at the Police Academy and then returning five years later to film and interview them as they patrol the city.

Seku Neblett
$1,280
To support classes for youth, teaching them traditional African drumming. Sessions will end with a public performance demonstrating the participants competence as a group.

Urban Tree Connection
$1,251
To commission a sculptor to carve a sculpture in a large tree trunk at our Children's Memorial Garden in the Haddington neighborhood of West Philadelphia that commemorates the many neighborhood children who lost their lives to street violence.

American Insight
$1,156
To support the production of its documentary, “Free Speech: A Sacred Challenge.” The film follows the storyline of Violet Oakley's first 13 murals in the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg, and traces the origins of freedom of speech to William Penn's first visit to America.

Ava Blitz
$1,091
To support the design and fabrication, with students and apprentices, a large-scale outdoor site-specific public art piece in sculpture that floats on water. I would like to exhibit it in the confluence of the Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River, on the water by the Philadelphia Canoe Club (on Fairmount Park).

Cross-Disciplinary Arts in Community Program, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
$1,013
To support Six Actors in Search of a Plot, a dance/drama piece co-written by American Jewish choreographer Billy Yalowitz and Israeli Arab playwright Muhammad Ahmad Zaher, which will be performed in Philadelphia in October 2006.

Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
$1,182
To support performance by Tamagawa Taiko, a group of traditional Japanese dancers and taiko drummers from Tamagawa University in Tokyo, as part of the two-week Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia. Tamagawa Taiko's performances showcase a wide variety of traditional and modern Japanese music, including varied styles of taiko drumming.

Kulu Mele African-American Dance Ensemble
$1,039
To support performances for four organizations that cannot afford performance fees – the Overbrook School for the Blind, Carousel House, Coatesville Cultural Center, and Children's Variety Charity.

Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet Society, Inc.
$1,078
To support IN STEP, a series of demonstrations/lectures/performances designed for elementary and high school students in the Philadelphia region, presented by members of the professional teaching staff of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and its pre-professional level students.

Philadelphia Music Makers magazine
$1,091
To support a quarterly magazine, 50+ pages in length, designed to stimulate interest and foster support for Philadelphia's classical music world.

Philadelphia Songwriters Project
$1,026
To support its Songwriting for Choir initiative. It involves the disciplines of music composition, arrangement, a large scale performance, and associated residencies and workshop for the chosen songwriters. It also includes Live CD/DVD production.

Seymour Levin
$1,026
To support “Bubbe, They Just Baptized the Baby,” an hour-long documentary that examines the heart-wrenching decisions interfaith couples must make about how they will raise their children with regards to religion. Although interfaith marriage is a very common experience, there is, to date, no professional-class documentary exploring all the issues that surface.

Troupe Da Da: African Arts Collective
$1,156
To support 3 performances and workshops for youth and family audiences by a cultural arts and dance organization specializing in the presentation of West African traditional music and dance.