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Culture Works loses NEA Grants for Arts Project funding
Culture Works, the Dayton region’s arts and culture service agency, lost its federal grant for its Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts. In a statement, Culture Works says it received the email from the NEA notifying them of the grant’s termination on May 2. The agency…
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Culture Works loses NEA Grants for Arts Project funding
Culture Works, the Dayton region’s arts and culture service agency, lost its federal grant for its Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts. In a statement, Culture Works says it received the email from the NEA notifying them of the grant’s termination on May 2. The agency…
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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure (SSIR)
Weavers participate in a 2024 neighborhood festival at Springboard for the Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Thai Phan-Quang) Exit polls from the 2024 US election showed that three-quarters of voters nationwide felt negatively about the way things were going in the country, and many Americans continue to feel a profound sense of unease…
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Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds
A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations…
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Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds
A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations…
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Peterborough and Cambridgeshire groups work with British Museum
A community arts centre and an organisation tackling inequalities in education have been selected for a national culture programme run by the British Museum. Metal Peterborough, an arts centre, and The Kite Trust, which supports the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire, will take part in the initiative called “Where we are..”. The programme…
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The Curtis Center’s “The Wizard of Oz” a unique opportunity for performers
Brynn Carnesecca | Lehi Free Press This week, the Curtis Center for Arts and Education produced “The Wizard of Oz.” This special engagement had a cast made up of individuals with different disabilities. The performance gave each student the chance to participate in theater and the arts like never before. The Curtis Center, based in…
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The Curtis Center’s “The Wizard of Oz” a unique opportunity for performers
Brynn Carnesecca | Lehi Free Press This week, the Curtis Center for Arts and Education produced “The Wizard of Oz.” This special engagement had a cast made up of individuals with different disabilities. The performance gave each student the chance to participate in theater and the arts like never before. The Curtis Center, based in…
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Arts and culture made a nearly half-billion-dollar economic impact on SLO County in 2024
A newly released report shows just how valuable the arts and culture sector is to San Luis Obispo County. Up and down the county, there’s always an event, a concert or some sort of artistic experience for people in the community and tourists to enjoy. “There’s always been arts here,” Missy Reitner-Cameron said as she…
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Berlin Senate deepens cuts to the city’s cultural sector
Senators in the Berlin House of Representatives [Photo by Sandro Halank / CC BY-SA 4.0] Following the resignation of Culture Senator Joe Chialo (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) and the swift nomination of former State Secretary for Culture Sarah Wedl-Wilson to replace him, the Berlin Senate, a coalition of the CDU and Social Democratic Party (SPD),…
