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Arts Alive Grants Enliven Cultural Landscape of Westchester

Imagine a classroom where a musician facilitates environmental awareness through cooperative songwriting, or a theater group that brings performances to underprivileged communities, thereby exposing them to ideas they’d never have considered otherwise. Arts Alive Grants turn these imaginings into realities annually by providing direct support to artists and organizations that combine creativity and community – enlivening the cultural landscape of our neighborhoods.  For more information, visit: www.artsw.org/artsalive.

This Friday, thirty-nine grants will be awarded to support projects throughout the county, which include performing and fine art, public art installations, multimedia exhibitions and educational programming. Each of these programs will incorporate community involvement and/or engagement as the basis of their intent.

Here are just a few examples of some of this year's Arts Alive recipients:

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Sleepy Hollow Performing Artists will present Breaking the Barre, a series of ten workshops designed to help young artists explore social constructs that exist in society. They will work with professional performers, choreographers and theatrical designers on a culminating final performance.

Gooseberry Studio will create a public art light installation to be on display in Yonkers during the summer. In the shape of the “infinity” symbol, this installation is inspired by the Native American name for the Hudson River meaning “river that flows two ways.”

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Fort Hill Players, Inc. will present Free Summer Theater in the Parks. This series of free outdoor performances will present stories to children that teach life lessons like supporting harmony and gender equality, encouraging problem solving and providing an optimistic outlook on life.

This program is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, administered by ArtsWestchester.

 

The 2014 Arts Alive Grant Awardees:

Artist Grants
Gabrielle Sia, artist (Elmsford)

Patricia Miranda, artist (Port Chester)

Project Grants

Andrea Elam, choreographer/dancer (Peekskill)

Antonia Arts, Inc. (Peekskill)

Bronxville Public Library (Bronxville)

Chappaqua Orchestral Association (Chappaqua)

Collegium Westchester, Inc. (Ossining)

Cross Cultural Connection (Peekskill)

Daisy Jopling Foundation (Peekskill)

Downtown/Waterfront Business Improvement District Inc. of Yonkers

Educational Exchange (Purdys)

Fort Hill Players, Inc. (White Plains)

Friends of Hastings Public Library (Hastings-on-Hudson)

Gooseberry Studio (Shenorock)

Greenburgh Public Library (Elmsford)

Hamm & Clov Stage Company, Inc. (Yonkers)

Harrison Public Library (Harrison)

Hudson Valley Singers, Corp. (Irvington)

Judy Ayers, choreographer (Yonkers)

Little Radical Theatrics, Inc. (Bronxville)

M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. (Amawalk)

New Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Hartsdale)

Niji No Kai, Corp. (Valhalla)

O'Bey Foundation, Inc. (Mount Vernon)

OCA Westchester and Hudson Valley (White Plains)

Ossining Documentary & Discussion Series (Ossining)

Ossining Public Library (Ossining)

Peekskill Arts Alliance (Peekskill)

PJS Jazz Society, Inc. (Mount Vernon)

Pleasantville Music Theatre, Inc. (Ossining)

Rivertown Artist Workshop (Sleepy Hollow)

Scarsdale Congregational Church (Scarsdale)

Sleepy Hollow Performing Artists (Sleepy Hollow)

Songcatchers, Inc. (New Rochelle)

Westchester Collaborative Theater (Ossining)

Westchester Oratorio Society, Inc. (South Salem)

White Plains Hispanic Day Parade Committee, Inc. (White Plains)

 

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