Grants Recipients - Fall 2006

Academy of Performing Arts: to present Kids in Motion, a dance program that brings Academy dance specialists into nine Cape Cod schools to actively engage fourth-grade students in the physical and creative process of dance and to integrate dance into the school curriculum.   $2,000

Barnstable Comedy Club: to help replace the roof of the historic Village Hall where the two hundred-seat community theatre presented its eighty-fifth season of performances, including four major productions and a Summer Production Workshop for directors, actors and productions crews.   $1,000

Cape Cod Museum of Art: to produce the ARTWORK catalog, featuring work completed by students in The Art Internship Program, an innovative mentoring/internship program that matches professional artists with aspiring high school artists.   $2,200

Cape Cod Opera: to support the continuing intergenerational outreach program, Opera and You, that brings together school children and elders to experience professional productions of live opera in six schools with a program of French works to introduce the subjects of music, French culture, and history.   $3,000

capeAbilities: to provide art classes in collaboration with the Creative Arts Center for thirty-two Cape Cod residents with disabilities, culminating in a fully-integrated exhibition of student and teacher works at the Creative Arts Center in May, as well as a traveling show throughout Cape Cod.   $1,200

Candice Crawford: to create an interactive exhibit replicating a portion of the old Railroad Wharf in Provincetown’s harbor during the 1900s, complete with a moving train, fishing boats, and sounds, to be exhibited in an art shanty on MacMillan Pier in Provincetown February through April 2007.   $825

Eventide Arts: to support Creative Voices – The Art of the Song, a pair of events that promote the understanding and advancement of the creative process of songwriting through a one-day songwriters’ workshop and the Nancy Smith Waage Songwriters’ Competition, offering a unique opportunity for instruction, critical assessment, and encouragement to participants.   $2,000

Falmouth Chorale: to present educational pre-concert lectures by an expert prior to the Spring Concert performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, to increase the understanding and appreciation of the operatic piece and build long-term audience attendance.   $500

Falmouth Historical Society: to present the Eighth Annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Festival, a community gathering that celebrates poets of all ages and celebrates poetry in our towns.   $1,175

Harwich Junior Theatre: to purchase complete portable lighting and sound systems to facilitate consistent, high-quality touring  productions and residencies that are part of a nationally recognized Outreach and School Matinee Performance Program, annually reaching over four thousand young people from Eastham to Sandwich.   $2,800

Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District: to expand Artscape Thursdays, a program that offers patrons a discount to participating restaurants after visiting galleries, thereby building a stronger arts community  and fostering economic growth on Hyannis Main Street.   $2,500

Meetinghouse Chamber Music Festival: to promote a series of varied chamber music programs featuring historic masterpieces alongside contemporary works that will be presented in venues from Woods Hole to Wellfleet during the summer months.   $1,500

Payomet Performing Arts Charitable Trust: to support an intensive marketing initiative to raise awareness of the organization’s new location at the Highlands Center and expansion of the free drama classes for kids, the Cape Cod Storyteller Project, and interactive educational performances to both year-round and summer populations.   $1,500

New Provincetown Players: to produce two Playwrights’ Festivals that will present approximately forty new plays and a series of workshop classes for adults and high school students providing a stage for emerging playwrights, education in theater arts to  community members, and off-season cultural programming for year-round audiences.   $2,500

Pat Sakellis: to develop a one-week art camp for twenty children ages 6-13, to be held at  the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, featuring classes by different artists each day and culminating in an art show and lunch for parents, children, and the public.   $1,500

Solstice Singers: to hire a professional director of the children’s chorus, Les Enfants du Soleil, which offers Cape Cod youth the opportunity to perform at significant cultural events and  exposure to medieval and Renaissance music, culture, and tradition.   $800

Town of Barnstable, Growth Management Department: to promote and cultivate the Harbor Your Arts initiative to further develop downtown Hyannis as a cultural destination by educating the community and attracting visitor groups through increased signage and marketing efforts.   $2,500

Veterans for Peace: to support the 12th Annual Peace Poetry Contest, open to all children and adults of Cape Cod, intended to promote peaceful and non-violent solutions to world conflict.   $500
   
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater: to present Playmakers, an eight-session educational outreach program designed to give theatergoers a more complete understanding of the elements involved in a professional production through active audience participation, conversation, and supplemental materials.   $2,500