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9/9/08 Arts Council of New Orleans Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Program FY2009 Grants Grant Activity Period: October 1, 2008 – September 30, ...
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Arts Council of New Orleans Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Program FY2009 Grants Grant Activity Period: October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009 The Arts Council of New Orleans provides critical funding to support arts and cultural activities in Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines Parishes through the Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Program. Decentralized grants are made possible by state funding through the Louisiana Division of the Arts, under the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Decentralized funds are allocated to each parish in the state on a per capita basis using the most recent census figures, giving each parish the opportunity to develop arts programming in response to local needs.

Orleans Parish Operating Support Grants Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School $5,450 To support the presentation of professional-quality theater showcasing the work of African American playwrights and actors; and to support a theater arts training program for youth through a summer camp and after-school sessions. Efforts of Grace $5,950 To support the promotion and presentation of African American art and artists through a multidisciplinary program at the Ashe' Cultural Center which fosters partnerships and collaborations that unite the forces of community development, cultural appreciation and artist support. Friends of WWOZ $7,050 To support WWOZ’s unique community radio programming which celebrates and promotes the cultural heritage and music traditions of New Orleans and the surrounding region through information and through jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, zydeco, gospel, brass band, bluegrass, African, Caribbean, Latin, and Irish music programming. Junebug Productions $4,050 To support the creation and presentation locally and nationally of original theater that explores the African American experience and focuses on the challenge of social change. Komenka Ethnic Dance Ensemble $5,050 To support Komenka Ensemble performances of folk-inspired dance and music from countries throughout the world, and Komenka participation in ballets, festivals, and collaborative productions. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre $5,050 To support Le Petit Theatre's season, including the presentation of main stage plays and musicals and theater productions for young people. Musical Arts Society of New Orleans $5,150 To support the New Orleans International Piano Competition and Keyboard Festival and the New Orleans Piano Institute which together offer a week-long series of concerts, master classes, and lectures attended by the world's leading musicians, music educators and students.

FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Orleans Parish Operating Support Grants New Orleans African American Museum $4,050 To support exhibitions, educational programming, and cultural events at the museum which showcase and interpret the history, art and culture of African Americans and the African diaspora. New Orleans Children's Chorus $5,350 To support the training and concerts of the New Orleans Children's Chorus, including performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and an annual spring concert. New Orleans Friends of Music $4,250 To support a chamber music concert series featuring performances by nationally and internationally known artists, making world-class chamber music accessible to local audiences. New Orleans Gay Men's Chorus $4,200 To support a series of concerts held at a variety of community events and venues and to support new music commissioned for the Chorus and choral workshops. New Orleans Musica da Camera $4,850 To support a concert series presenting music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods; and to support lectures, publications, and weekly radio broadcasts on WWNO-2 of Continuum, one of the longest-running radio programs devoted to early music. Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society $4,200 To support Words & Music, an annual national writers' conference including master classes, panels, readings, and music and theater events; the national William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition; The Double Dealer literary journal, and year-round readings and special events. Stage to Stage $5,850 To support a performing arts program for children including year-round instruction and the production of musicals for the Crescent City Lights Youth Theater, now housed at the NORD Ty Tracy Theatre in Gallier Hall. Symphony Chorus of New Orleans $3,950 To support Symphony Chorus performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and an educational outreach program. Young Audiences $5,950 To support the presentation of arts-in-education programming in schools, community centers, and libraries through performances, workshops, and residencies by a roster of local professional artists.

Orleans Parish Operating Support Total - $80,400

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Orleans Parish Project Assistance Grants Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund $4,500 To support the participation of local artists in the 13th annual New Orleans Dance Festival, a 16day event held in the summer which celebrates African heritage dance and music traditions of New Orleans and the Americas. ArtSpot Productions $4,310 To support the development and premiere on All Saints Day 2009 of three new Saint Plays by Erik Ehn produced through a collaboration with Cripple Creek Theater, Mondo Bizarro, Tulane University and The Porch / 7th Ward Community Center. Rob Cambre $3,780 To support a concert series of improvised and new music featuring local, national, and international artists and held at The Big Top arts center in Central City. Children’s Hospital $4,125 To support a music education and performance series at the hospital for patients and their families including several shows of Delfeayo Marsalis’s “Swinging with the Cool School” and performances by other local musicians. CubaNOLA Arts Collective $3,905 To support the Vecinos Series of concerts and gatherings at neighborhood venues which bring together new Latin American residents and established New Orleans residents for music by international visiting artists and local artists, food, and dancing. Culu Children’s Traditional African Dance Company $2,850 To support an annual conference with workshops and seminars in traditional African dance and drumming and a performance called Kuerr (Home). D’Project, Inc. $3,697 To support Southern Voices, a multimedia dance concert using innovative sound, video, and set design and presenting an array of local dancers and choreographers. DramaRama $2,950 To support DramaRama16, a multidisciplinary performing arts festival showcasing a diversity of local talent through a one-night event of performances throughout the Contemporary Arts Center and a complementary daytime event for children at the Louisiana Children's Museum. Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre $4,400 To support the Lula Elzy Dance Theatre’s production of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Nutcracker Swing, featuring live performances by the John Mahoney Big Band. Rashida Ferdinand $3,450 To support a ceramics guild program for young people in the Lower Ninth Ward which includes intensive instruction and opportunities for participants to sell their creations in the community.

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Orleans Parish Project Assistance Grants Friends of NORD $2,950 To support the Pre-Professional Program of the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance and its Center for Dance Company which provide free year-round training to young dancers and opportunities for advanced students to perform and work with professional dancers. $3,250 GNO Area Chapter 9th & 10th Calvary Association Buffalo Soldiers To support artist-led mural projects in two local public high schools, both depicting the Buffalo Soldiers who were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the U.S. Army. GNO-ABO Charitable and Educational Foundation $3,375 To support artist residencies at Pierre Capdeau UNO Charter School and Medard Nelson UNO Charter School with professional storyteller and arts educator Vanora Legaux. International House of Blues Foundation $4,900 To support the Moving Blues SchoolHouse, a program that brings to public schools in Orleans Parish a live, interactive musical performance that traces the evolution of the blues and bluesinspired music. Louisiana Artists Guild $3,950 To support curated exhibitions in three gallery spaces of Louisiana Artworks as part of the Prospect.1 international art biennial taking place November 2008 through mid-January 2009. Mondo Bizarro $4,410 To support the State of the Nation, a bi-monthly series and a multidisciplinary arts festival presenting the work of student, emerging, and professional performing and visual artists from Louisiana and beyond. Monkey Puzzle Productions $4,150 To support the production of a series of radio pieces celebrating the life of the late musician, teacher, writer and griot Danny Barker. Musicians For Music $3,730 To support Ecos Latinos, a monthly arts series presenting local and international Latino musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists at a variety of venues such as Tulane University, Delgado Community College, Orleans public schools and Trinity Episcopal Church. National Performance Network $4,400 To support the Creative Forces Youth Educational Theater Corps’s series of after-school performances and workshops designed to help public school students with their science and math studies. Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans $4,450 To support a 7th Ward digital storytelling project that includes training of neighborhood participants and a new media festival which will present and archive the stories of 7th Ward residents.

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Orleans Parish Project Assistance Grants New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival $2,765 To support screenings of African and African American film to illuminate the historic ties of New Orleans to Africa and the diaspora. New Orleans Ballet Association $4,410 To support a one-week residency by visiting artist Trey McIntyre including the commission of a new work to be performed with local jazz musicians. New Orleans Dance Collective $2,950 To support a summer dance program for inner-city youth including master classes with professional dancers and a recital performance for the community. New Orleans Fringe, Inc. $4,060 To support the first New Orleans Fringe Festival featuring comedy, dance, drama, performance art, puppetry, and spoken word to be performed at an array of venues in the Bywater neighborhood. New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council $3,700 To support the traditional Super Sunday celebration of Mardi Gras Indian culture including a parade and festival of Indian tribes from across the city with second line clubs, music by local bands, and children’s activities. New Orleans String Project $4,900 To support a free program for inner-city children of weekly after-school music instruction in cello, viola, and string bass; a week-long summer intensive; and outreach performances. NO/AIDS Task Force $2,791 To support the 7th annual Saints and Sinners LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Literary Festival which takes place in May 2009 at various venues in the French Quarter. NOCCA Institute $2,950 To support NOCCA Riverfront’s Center Stage concert series, its Creative Readings Series, and its On the Edge gallery exhibition series all of which benefit both students and the public. NOLA Playback Theatre $3,880 To support the initial events at Ashe’ Cultural Center and the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center of Red Tent NOLA, a pilot series traveling to New Orleans communities to encourage storysharing performances by women and about women. Press Street $3,950 To support the third annual Drawathon, a 24-hour creative event of continuous drawing activities and workshops led by local artists and open to the public. Renew Our Music Fund, Inc. $2,450 To support the Sweet Home New Orleans/Renew Our Music performance subsidy program which funds individual musicians and bands to perform at community events.

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Orleans Parish Project Assistance Grants St. Louis Cathedral $3,730 To support a series of pipe organ concerts presenting internationally-acclaimed organists with the aim being to broaden the public’s awareness of the scope of pipe organ music. St. Mary's Academy $3,950 To support a residency by puppetry artist Karen Konnerth giving elementary students the opportunity to work with a professional artist in visual arts, puppetry, and theater projects which are aligned with classroom studies. Wesley Swinnen $2,650 To support Static, a cable TV show on Cox 10 which promotes New Orleans rock music artists. Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival $3,050 To support outreach programs during the annual festival including a high school writers' workshop and a poetry slam. Timecode NOLA $2,790 To support Timecode:NOLA, a cable television program that showcases and promotes the work of Louisiana independent filmmakers, giving them an opportunity to have their work shown to a regional television audience and a worldwide internet audience. Tsunami Dance Company $4,310 To support the premiere of Migration of Form, a new concert by Tsunami featuring the company’s signature choreographic work which combines innovative, original modern dance and media arts. Uptown Area Senior Adult Ministry $3,810 To support actor training, script development, and touring of the Golden Heart Players, a senior citizen community theater group. Jan Villarubia $4,060 To support the production of Whispering Bones, a community-based, collaborative performance piece examining racism and the role of black domestics in white southern households. James Walsh $2,750 To support a new music concert for chamber orchestra by the New Orleans New Music Ensemble presenting works by living local composers in the relaxed, informal atmosphere of The Big Top arts center in Central City.

Orleans Parish Project Assistance Total - $147,438

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Orleans Parish Technical Assistance Grants CubaNOLA Arts Collective $2,050 To support the creation of a web site that will provide information on CubaNOLA projects, collect mailing list data, and streamline registration for CubaNOLA cultural tourism trips. Green Project $2,050 To support hiring a consultant to help the Recycle for the Arts program create a strategic plan including actions steps to be implemented over the next five years. KID smART $2,450 To support sending Kidmart's AXIS Director to the Project Zero symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre $1,950 To support hiring a web designer to create a web site and a video producer to create video trailers of company work to post on the web site. New Orleans Film Society $2,050 To support sending key staff to national film festivals to network, share information, and find programming for the New Orleans Film Festival. New Orleans Fringe, Inc. $2,050 To support hiring a technical theater consultant and an accountant; and to support sending the executive director to another Fringe Festival to gain festival production insight. Southern Rep $2,050 To support redesigning and enhancing Southern Rep's web site to increase its online presence locally and nationally by featuring blogs and links to essential tourist and arts-based web sites. Symphony Chorus of New Orleans To support hiring a consultant who will help the organization create a strategic plan.

$2,450

Three Ring Circus Arts Education Center To support hiring a consultant who will help the organization create a strategic plan.

$1,950

Orleans Parish Technical Assistance Total $19,050

Grand Total for Orleans Parish - $246,888

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Jefferson Parish Operating Support Grants Cervantes Fundacion Hispanoamericana de Arte $6,145 To support the School of Arts which offers classes for the Spanish-speaking community in theater, drawing, oil painting, music and dance. Delta Festival Ballet $13,390 To support the company’s public and in-school performances; educational programs such as the New Orleans Youth Ballet offering intensive study for serious young dancers; and an outreach program including dance concerts for young children, scholarships for the Summer Ballet Workshop, and discounted tickets. Jefferson Ballet Theatre $12,390 To support a program that promotes the appreciation of ballet by presenting major ballets featuring renowned guest artists, offering talented local dancers professional opportunities, and offering master classes, outreach to disadvantaged youth, and training scholarships. Jefferson Performing Arts Society $56,360 To support a program that promotes the performing arts including presenting touring and local musical theater, symphonic music, and opera and providing regional education and outreach programs. Rivertown Repertory Theatre Guild $28,390 To support the season of main stage productions, productions for children through the Imagine Theatre for Children, and the Conservatory for Children, a training program for young actors.

Jefferson Parish Operating Support Total - $116,675

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Jefferson Parish Project Assistance Grants Bissonet Plaza Elementary $5,760 To support an arts program that includes a teacher training workshop, a three-week residency by a professional storyteller, and a series of performances by visiting artists. Catherine Strehle Elementary School $5,210 To support in-school performances by visiting artists and an instrument-making workshop for the entire student body; and to support a storytelling residency for 4th - 5th grades and a music residency for pre-K and 1st grades. Deckbar Alternative School $6,100 To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts education program, bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural experiences into core curricula. Feis New Orleans/McTeggart Irish Dancers of Louisiana $5,800 To support Feis New Orleans and the Louisiana Irish Dance Championships, a one-day festival and competition drawing participants from all over North America to participate in Irish dance, music, song, and spoken word. Grand Isle Community Development Team $6,700 To support Magical Botanical, the 7th annual regional juried art exhibition which now includes a children’s division and was established to raise awareness of coastal erosion of Louisiana's only inhabited barrier island and the surrounding wetlands. Greater New Orleans Suzuki Forum $4,160 To support the Greater New Orleans Summer Music Camp which uses the internationallyrenowned Suzuki method of instruction which benefits not only the young students, but their parents and teachers. Green Park Elementary $5,710 To support visual, music, dance and theater artist residencies, all focusing on a Louisiana theme, to culminate in the Green Park Creative Arts Festival which includes exhibitions, a student play, and music and dance performances. Jefferson Dollars for Scholars $6,150 To support the Jefferson Dollars for Scholars Summer Arts Program which provides scholarships to deserving students from low-income families, enabling them to attend summer arts programs in the metropolitan area. Jefferson Parish Public Schools/Special Programs $4,450 To support an artist residency which brings visual artist Rashida Ferdinand to Maggoire Elementary School as part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Artists and Sense of Place Residency program.

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Jefferson Parish Project Assistance Grants Jefferson Youth Foundation $6,100 To support the Creative Arts Workshop which provides instruction in various arts disciplines to children who have limited exposure to the arts and attend the Jefferson Youth Foundation’s Advent After-School Program. John Martyn Alternative School $6,180 To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts education program bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural experiences into core curricula. Kerner Elementary School $5,100 To support the publication of the 8th volume of Les Plumes de Lafitte, the school’s literary journal, and to support drama training and the production of a school play led by visiting artists. Anita Kulkarni $6,100 To support a workshop series in classical Indian music and one in classical Indian dance, and to support a public concert featuring both to promote appreciation of these art forms. Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts $6,020 To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Stage Without a Theatre residency-based arts education program bringing artists of various disciplines into the school to integrate arts and cultural experiences into core curricula. Magnolia School $7,050 To support ceramics classes which are led by a visiting artist and are provided free-of-charge to adults with mental disabilities. Moscow Nights $6,900 To support An Evening with Anton Chekhov, a theater production including three short plays by Chekhov. Pluma Productions of Southern Dominican Province $6,550 To support Ecos Latinos, a monthly artist series videotaped for cablecast, presenting visiting and local Latino musicians, poets, dancers, and visual artists at community venues such as Jefferson Parish public schools, bookstores, and senior homes. St. Benilde Church and School $5,090 To support after-school dance instruction provided by the New Orleans Ballet Association freeof-charge to children in Jefferson Parish with a demonstrated interest in dance. St. Jerome Church $5,350 To support an after-school dance and drumming program for a mostly Latino student population, with the dance instruction provided by the New Orleans Ballet Association.

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Jefferson Parish Project Assistance Grants Waggaman Alternative School $6,145 To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts education program bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural experiences into core curricula. West Bank Art Guild $3,697 To support hiring accomplished visual artists to conduct a series of hands-on workshops for area adults, senior citizens, and chidren. Westbank Community School $6,284 To support Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts education program bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural experiences into core curricula.

Jefferson Parish Project Assistance Total - $126,606

Jefferson Parish Technical Assistance Grants Moscow Nights $2,500 To support hiring a professional management consultant to assist with fund development.

Jefferson Parish Technical Assistance Total - $2,500

Grand Total for Jefferson Parish - $245,781

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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS Plaquemines Parish Project Assistance Grants Belle Chasse Academy $2,935 To support a Cajun Cultural Festival that enables students in the 5 - 8th grades to experience the culinary, music, and craft traditions of Louisiana's Cajun culture. Belle Chasse Primary School $4,127 To support in-school performances by visiting actors and musicians to enhance the students’ study of Louisiana and to reinforce core curricula. Boothville-Venice Elementary School $4,445 To support in-school performances by a series of guest artists including storytellers, musicians, theater artists, and folk dancers. Plaquemines Parish Library $4,230 To support performances by a series of guest artists including storytellers, musicians, and dancers as part of the library's Summer Reading Program.

Total for Plaquemines Parish - $15,737

The programs of the Arts Council of New Orleans are supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency. Specific programs are also funded through contracts with the City of New Orleans and other public and private agencies.

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