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2011 Project Stream Grantees
Congratulations to all the 2011 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Project Stream Grant awardees. This year 47 projects were selected from a total of 112 applicantions. Nearly $95,000 was distributed to deservings arts and community programs throughout the Philadelphia region, and the average award for 2011 was $2,009.17.
Bucks County
Stretched Strings Concert and Workshop Series | $2,969
Stretched Strings is a music performance and education series with each event including a concert and workshop with a world class guest artist and a resident artist.
Contact: Tim Farrell
Youth Orchestra of Bucks County | $1,999
The Youth Orchestra of Bucks County provides talented young musicians with an advanced classical musical experience to augment their school music programs. YOBC’s Master Class Series, for music students in grades 3-12, offers direct instruction and demonstrations of both the technical and musical aspects of instruments.
Contact: Colleen Sweetsir
Chester County
Kennett Area Senior Center | $1,999
Kennett Area Senior Center will bring a Mneme Therapy program called Art Without Boundaries to help senior citizens revive their memories while strengthening mental and physical abilities, developing coping skills and building friendships.
Contact: Annita O'Connor
Paoli Blues Fest, Inc. | $1,999
Funds will support the 3rd Annual community blues festival and street fair, which will feature performances by 7-8 top blues bands and emerging artists in the blues style.
Contact: Pattye Benson
Delaware County
Sally Wiener Grotta | $1,925
Grant will support a month-long exhibit and an evening slideshow presentation/discussion of "Pennsylvania Hands," a narrative of photographic portraits of Pennsylvanians who work with their hands creating functional items that are, today, made by machines, if at all.
Contact: Sally Wiener Grotta
Swarthmore-Rutledge School | $1,599
The African Dance Program is adjunct to the Swarthmore-Rutledge School’s 3rd grade study of Africa. This multi-faceted program utilizes dance, drumming and masquerade to teach students about African culture.
Contact: Gary Davis
Tri-County Concerts Association | $1,999
Tri-County Concerts Association will use their grant to help fund four chamber concerts by emerging artists: Chen Xi, violin; Svetlana Smolena, piano; the Daedelus Quartet; and Jonathan Beyer, baritone.
Contact: Barbara Schick
Montgomery County
Art for Justice | $1,999
The Road Map for Life Workshop, organized by Art for Justice in Montgomery County, is an arts program that also provides life skills training for 15-30 high risk youth in 10 sessions and culminates in an art exhibit for the youth.
Contact: Anne Marie Kirk
Friends of Music at St. Thomas’ | $792
Friends of Music at St. Thomas will present a summer series of free community concerts featuring the 48-bell, 25 ton manual carillon of St. Thomas' Church, accompanied by regional performing artists.
Contact: Lisa Lonie
The Jazz Bridge Project | $1,999
Jazz Bridge will produce eight neighborhood jazz concerts at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts every first Wednesday from Oct. 2011 through May 2012.
Contact: Suzanne Cloud
Lower Merion Vocational Training Program | $1,999
The grant will help funds an artist in residency program that couples artists with groups of 20-30 LMVTC artists with disabilities. Residency includes open studio time to help promote the personal artistic development of resident artists.
Contact: Lori Bartol
Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program | $866
Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program will use its grant to help support a series of poetry workshops for all ages and abilities. Workshops will include "Poetry Noir," "Montco Poets Wordshop," "Writing from Within," "Poetry WITS" and "Celebrity Poet Workshop."
Contact: Joanne Leva
SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society | $1,566
Grantee will host "SRUTI Day" - an annual community event showcasing Indian classical music and dances by local artists and students of the arts.
Contact: Ramaa Nathan
Summertrios, Inc. | $990
This project provides opportunities for adult amateur musicians to play, learn new repertoire, study and perform classical music, particularly chamber music with a community of musicians.
Contact: Paul Shepard
Township of Cheltenham Environmental Advisory Council | $1,650
The advisory council will hire a local muralist to develop inter-municipal mural arts design with Cheltenham and Abington Townships, business community and residents involving cultural images and landscapes that reflect the theme of sustainability.
Contact: Bryan Havir
Philadelphia County
Aaron Birk | $1,999
Aaron Birk will use his grant to help publish the "The Pollinator's Corridor", a graphic novel about restoration ecology in the inner-city, which will bring environmental education to low income high school students of Southwest Philadelphia.
Contact: Aaron Birk
Adrienne Mackey | $1,999
Director Adrienne Mackey will present an all female re-invention of Macbeth, starring Catherine Slusar. The play will featuring a muscular vocal treatment of Shakespearean text along with new scenes to re-imagine one of literature's darkest heroines.
Contact: Adrienne Mackey
Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra | $1,999
The Open Rehearsal Series with iConduct is a hands-on minority youth engagement program that will open three BPCO rehearsals to youth in North Philadelphia. iConduct! is a fun inreach activity where BPCO musicians perform for those who want to experience what it's like to stand up in front of a group of performers and make music through gestures.
Contact: Julia Rubio
Crossroads Music | $1,999
Crossroads Music, the region's only organization dedicated to presenting traditional and ethnic music from around the world, will present approximately 20 concerts, along with workshops and children's events.
Contact: Daniel Flaumenhaft
Emma Gibson | $1,999
Grantee will present “a play, a pie and a pint” - brilliantly casual theatre where new audiences can enjoy a one-act play, a pie and a drink of choice for $15.
Contact: Emma Gibson
Gas & Electric Arts | $1,980
Gas & Electric Arts will adapt Eric Kimmel's classic book "Hershel & the Hanukkah Goblins" for a December 2011 world premiere for a family audience.
Contact: David Brown
Girls Rock Philly | $1,999
Girls Rock Philly will offer two week-long day camp programs for girls ages 9 through 17 that encourage empowerment through musical instruction and creation.
Contact: Beth Warshaw-Duncan
Intercultural Journeys | $1,666
Intercultural Journeys is developing a series for the West Philadelphia communities called Sunday Evenings-Music for Contemplation. The musical performances represent a broad variety of musical and faith traditions.
Contact: Kristen Golia
Joslyn Duncan | $1,999
Stories In Service: Day of Neighborhood Storytelling sends African American Storytellers to African American communities to tell traditional and historical tales that restore cultural identity and bring hope.
Contact: Joslyn Duncan
Liveconnections.org | $1,999
Liveconnections.org is an experiential, educational music program held at WXPN’s World Café Live.that brings together musicians from different backgrounds with traditionally underserved students. Their grant will be used to extend and deepen a partnership with Science Leadership Academy.
Contact: Tamar Lelkes Oded
Luna Theater Company | $1,999
Luna Theater Company presents the Philadelphia premiere of Fin Kennedy's How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, a provocative thriller about identity and the consequences of its erasure.
Contact: Gregory Campbell
Mighty Writers | $1,666
Mighty Writers' "Sound and Fury" multimedia documentary project will capture and revive the glory days of black Philadelphia radio for today's audience.
Contact: Maggie Leyman
Moonstone Arts Center | $1,999
Grant will help support 250 programs including the Moonstone Poetry Series (24 programs featuring 48 poets) plus a day long reading featuring over 100 poets for Poetry Month with an accompanying book.
Contact: Larry Robin
Music For All Seasons, Inc. | $1,999
Grant will support a series of professional, therapeutic, and interactive musical programs for children, addressing issues of social interaction and quality of life in a Philadelphia domestic violence shelter.
Contact: Brian Dallow
National Liberty Museum | $2,969
"Caretoons" is an art-based violence prevention project for underserved Philadelphia youth. Students learn critical life skills while creating their own original artwork, then are recognized for their achievement.
Contact: Peggy Sweeney
Nichole Canuso Dance Company | $1,999
The Garden is an immersive performance project inspired by Calvino's novel "Invisible Cities". The project will expand the way Philadelphia audiences experience live performance.
Contact: Nichole Canuso
OMEBELICO Mask Ensemble | $1,999
OMEBELICO Mask Ensemble is creating Run, Grunt, Sing: An Open Air Theatric for the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. This show will be produced in the style of Commedia dell'Arte.
Contact: Brendon Gawel
Passyunk Square Civic Association | $2,969
This proposal is for a large-scale exterior mosaic at a public elementary school. Students will be involved every aspect of project, from design to creation.
Contact: Christina Grimes
Peter Price | $1,999
The Fidget Space will present three performances curated by Peter Price (in January, February, and March 2012) of the work of John Cage in celebration of the composer's centennial.
Contact: Peter Price
Phila. Chapter Barbershop Harmony Society | $983
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will bring the art of barbershop singing to four Northeast Philadelphia nursing homes/assisted living facilities and senior centers in the form of free concerts.
Contact: William Toffey
Philadelphia Dance Projects | $1,999
Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) will present a performance series, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012, that offers imaginative dance choreographic work of artists from Philadelphia and their national peers.
Contact: Terry Fox
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center | $2,969
Philly Photo Day is a free community arts event where everyone in Philadelphia is asked to take a picture on the same day, October 28th. Then on November 10th, from 6-9pm, every single picture submitted is printed and hung for exhibition in our space at 1400 N American St.
Contact: Julie Taylor
Robert Blackson | $1,999
Robert Blackson, director of exhibitions at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, will present a series of public programs, including tours, lectures, exhibitions, and workshops focused on the art, culture and creative vitality on and around North Broad Street.
Contact: Robert Blackson
Roxborough Development Corporation | $1,999
Grant will be used to held support the ROXART Gallery, which provides a professional, public setting for artists to display their art. The gallery also brings art and culture to the Roxborough neighborhood.
Contact: Kenneth Bigos
Shakespeare in Clark Park | $2,969
Shakespeare in Clark Park will present a professional outdoor theater production of a Shakespearean play at a free summertime cultural event that is accessible to the Clark Park neighborhood and the Greater Philadelphia area.
Contact: Marla Burkholder
Simpatico Theatre Project | $1,999
A superior-quality theatrical production of David Rabe's THE BLACK MONK which will successfully raise awareness about mental illness in Philadelphia, specifically in neighborhoods where diagnosis and treatment are rare.
Contact: Allen Radway
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium | $1,999
The IRC will produce for The Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival 2011 a translation of the absurdist classic The Firebugs by Swiss playwright Max Frisch, written in 1958.
Contact: Tina Brock
Weathervane Music Organization | $1,999
Grant will help fund Shaking Through - a music and video series produced by Weathervane Music and WXPN documenting the birth of a song by an emerging independent musician in a high-end studio.
Contact: Brian McTear
Yvette Almaguer | $1,999
The Lea Visual Arts Program is a collaborative effort to improve school climate through innovative interior design and visual art interventions throughout hallways and stairwells of the Henry C. Lea School.
Contact: Yvette Almaguer
Regional
Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company | $2,969
To support the Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 8th year of "Free Theatre in the Parks"; a program that brings professional productions of classic plays to outdoor public spaces.
Contact: Mary Ann Baldwin
Dolce Suono Ensembles | $1,999
Dolce Suono Ensemble plans concerts and educational events featuring the Philadelphia revival of Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" in performances for the public and school groups.
Contact: Mimi Stillman
The Crossing, Inc. | $2,969
The Crossing will perform a Christmas program to be broadcast on PRI, with a subsequent commercial CD release, including premieres by James MacMillan, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, and Andrew Gant.
Contact: Maren Brehm
The Project Stream and Program Stream grants initiative is made possible through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. They are funded by the citizens of Pennsylvania through an annual legislative appropriation, and administered locally by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support for Project Stream is provided by PECO.