Grants Recipients - Spring 2008
Academy of Performing Arts: to fund the 2008 internship program, which employs and educates high school and college students with strong backgrounds in theater arts, providing hands-on instruction. $2,000
Cape Cod Celtic Society: to support a local duo, Stanley & Grimm (Nikki Engstrom, fiddle & Sean Brennan, guitar), opening the sixth annual Cape Cod Celtic Festival. $500
Cape Cod Children’s Museum: to expand Art Without Boundaries, an educational arts program for children, to include a variety of earth media and textile art, enabling children to create works of art using clay, paint, mosaics, paper collage and fabric. $1,000
Cape Cod Chorale: to fund the purchase of new risers for the Chorale’s 100+ singers, improving aesthetics for the audience, enhancing vocal harmony, enhancing safety and comfort for the Chorale, and improving visibility for the Director. $500
Cape Cod Community College: to install Anne Flash as an artist-in-residence at the college for Fall 2008, culminating in an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Higgins Art Gallery. $1,500
Cape Cod Maritime Museum: to collaborate with volunteers from Women of Fishing Families and local children to produce Gone Fishin’, a photography exhibit by Cape residents ages six to eighteen, reflecting their perceptions of the local fishing industry. $735
Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater: to support its production of The Case of the Calico Lobster, the 20th Captain Underhill Mystery. $2,500
Cape Cod Theatre Project: to support the Ten-Minute Play Writing Contest, a competition to increase interest in theater and theater as an art, and to stimulate the creativity of latent and established playwrights. $500
D.A.M.P. ARTs: to collaborate with the Provincetown International Film Festival in presenting Freeheld, an Academy Award-winning short documentary (2008), including an audience “talk-back” with producer Stacie Andree. $1,500
William Evaul: to digitally re-master two art history slide presentations, The Art Colony of Provincetown and The Genesis of the White-Line Woodcut, promoting a better understanding of the importance of the Art Colony of Provincetown and its influence on the larger perception of American Art. $2,500
Eventide Arts: to support the tenth annual Nancy Smith Waage Songwriter’s Competition, offering a unique opportunity for instruction, critical assessment, and encouragement to participants of all ages. $1,500
Falmouth Artists Guild: to fund Thursday Afternoon Art for Kids, a series of drop-in summer art classes that engage children of different ages and abilities. $1,075
Falmouth Chorale: to initiate a Spring Sing concert with guest performers, the Greater Falmouth Mostly All-Male Men’s Chorus, providing the community an opportunity to sing along outside of the traditional holiday season. $800
Falmouth Historical Society: to present the 9th Annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Festival, a community gathering celebrating poets of all ages and their poetry. $1,529
Highfield Hall: to support Highfield Hall’s emerging artists program, which brings students from the New England Conservatory of Music to Falmouth for recitals and programs that educate, inspire, and entertain. $1,500
John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation: to produce the documentary history project, Friends and Neighbors, capturing on film those whose personal recollections shine a light on JFK’s years here on Cape Cod. $2,000
Living Arts Institute: to pilot an interdisciplinary, intergenerational theater arts summer program with writing, movement, and image/design, in collaboration with Harwich Junior Theatre, Harwich Senior Center, and the Harwich Summer Youth Program. $1,500
Mattacheese Middle School: to support the theater production of And They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, based on the life of Anne Frank’s step-sister, Eva Schloss, who will attend the presentation and speak with students about her experience surviving the concentration camps during World War II. $3,500
Meeting House Chamber Music Festival: to present concerts in collaboration with the Chatham Chorale, featuring Why I Wake Early, a commissioned piece by Ronald Perera of Yarmouthport along with poetry by Cape Cod poet Mary Oliver. $1,500
Payomet Performing Arts Charitable Trust: to expand the drama classes for children including Movement, Acting for Teens, Improvisation, and Playwriting, among the current classes incorporating stage presence, character building, scene work, and hands-on technical training. $2,250
Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum: to support a concert of shanties and songs of the sea featuring Roll & Go, a singing group from Maine, complementing other local events during the weekend, including the Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta and the Provincetown Swim for Life and Paddler Flotilla. $1,000
Sandwich Schools Band Boosters: to purchase new timpani for the Sandwich High School Band program and repair old timpani for Sandwich elementary schools, allowing students to perform a wider array of more challenging music and enabling the percussionists to correctly interpret concert scores. $1,500
Shakespeare on the Cape: to expand the Kiddie Shakes program, an hour-long, narrated version of The Tempest, performed throughout the Cape and Islands to engage children under the age of twelve. $2,500
Solstice Singers: to hire a professional director for their winter concert, offering Cape Cod youth the opportunity to perform at significant cultural events and be exposed to medieval and Renaissance music, culture and tradition. $750
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill: to support the 4th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival, providing a forum for international dance in all forms, styles, and traditions, with performances and Meet the Artists events. $1,500
Truro Historical Society, Inc / Highland Museum: to expand summer educational activities for resident and visiting children, in conjunction with the Storybook School exhibit, offering new involvement in art appreciation, mural painting and creative writing. $500
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT): to provide free tickets to Lower Cape Cod elementary school students to attend the WHAT for Kids summer theater production, introducing children to live performance. $2,500