LCC FY13

The Northampton Arts Council is pleased to announce the awarding of 18 LCC/MCC 2012 grants totaling $8,650 in support of a variety of projects. The Arts Council received 46 requests for almost $46,000 of funding. These grants were awarded from funds allotted by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Dance

$750 to Jennifer Pollins for Matter over Mind which celebrates Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School’s Catalyst Dancer’s 15th performance season. Performance is Thursday April 11th and Friday April 12th at 7 PM. Features Bill T Jones choreography.

$400 to Effie Molina for La Noche Cubana: An Afro-Cuban Experience. A "Cuban Night" with folkloric dance music ensemble Iroko Nuevo.

$250 to Dance Generators for New Dances for All Ages. New works by local choreographers Fritha Pengally, Jen Polins, and Maureen Shea.

Literature

$600 to Paris Press for Writing and Reading through Illness.

Film/Video

$250 to the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival for a festival of Jewish films. The 2013 Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival will run for two weeks in Hampden, Hampshire, & Franklin Counties.

Mixed Media

$1000 to Sally Curcio for the project A Prize Every Time. A Prize Every Time addresses chance, luck, wealth and their impact on local, national, global economies.

$750 to The Performance Project for First Generation Performance, an original multi-lingual performance.

$500 to Peter Zierlein for Symmetrical Paper-Cut Art and Workshop. The lecture will be on the history of paper cutting.

$400 to Stefanie Weber for Creatures of Habitat Public Performance Project, which occupies paved spaces with art that moves people.

$300 to Forbes Library for A Song & Story Celebration, a program for families celebrating reading and cultural diversity.

Music

$250 to Music In Deerfield, Inc. for Concert Season. A mixture of sacred and secular music drawn from both contemporary and classical periods.

$250 to Novi Cantori of Greater Springfield, Inc. for Spring Concert Series. A six-concert season, performed by musicians of international reputation.

$250 to the Arcadia Players for Arcadia Players Spring 2013 Concerts. Two concerts: "Viva Italia!" and "Shakespeare Concert."

Schools

$700 to Jackson Street School for Cinco de Mayo Celebration. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with MarKamusic.

Theater

$700 to Ko Theater Works, Inc for Ko Festival Fringe: Story Slam NOHO. First-person true stories, told live and without notes.

$250 to Old Deerfield Productions for Chamber Truth, a new opera about Sojourner Truth.

Visual Arts

$700 to Amanda Hill for Final Emergency. Large-scale oil paintings that focus on internal structures.

$350 to Fletcher Smith for Public Conic Anamorphism. Create and display a conic anamorphic painting of a monumental scale.