Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Number of Grants: 11
available in both print and digital formats, and accompanied by online readers for teachers, students, and general
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Silvermine Guild of Artists, Inc.
$25,000 New Canaan, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
To support a series of performing and visual arts events. Events will include performances by musicians Caladh Nua
(Ireland), multidisciplinary animation and performance artist Miwa Matreyek (United States), and a new cocommissioned work from collaborators Bridgman/Packer Dance (United States) and filmmaker Peter Bobrow
(United States). Silvermine also will present Arts Fest, a free, outdoor festival of music, dance, and the visual arts,
featuring hip-hop and percussion troupe Street Beat(United States).
Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.
$10,000 New Haven, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater
To support the Contemporary American Voices Festival. Long Wharf Theatre will feature fully produced mini-runs
of plays by emerging and established playwrights such as "Forever," written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith,
and "Rodney King," a one-man show by Roger Guenveur Smith. Additional festival programming such as staged
readings of works-in-progress, post-show conversations, and communitywide conversations will be hosted by the
New Haven Free Public Library.
New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
$65,000 New Haven, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
To support the presentation of multidisciplinary artists, with accompanying engagement activities. Featured
projects will include "From Bach to Bebop," by Imani Winds with Jeff Scott (New York) and poetry by A.B. Spellman
(Washington, D.C.), and "Eve" from singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo (Benin) with guest African artists. The
festival also will present "Song of the Jasmine" by Ragamala Dance (Minneapolis) and jazz saxophonist/composer
Rudresh Mahanthappa (New York), and the Mark Morris Dance Group's (Brooklyn) "Acis and Galatea.".
Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
$40,000 New Haven, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater
To support Yale Repertory Theatre's world premiere production of "Elevada" by Sheila Callaghan. Commissioned
by Yale Rep, the play follows a quartet of characters whose lives become entangled after a fateful blind date
between a young woman finishing cancer treatments and an Internet celebrity who is about to sell his identity to a
corporation. The play will be directed by Jackson Gay. Callaghan will be in residence at the theater through the
rehearsal process, and will collaborate with Gay and the dramaturgical staff on the ongoing refinement of the text.
Connecticut College
$10,000 New London, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
To support onStage at Connecticut College, a series of multidisciplinary arts performances and related activities.
The college will present diverse productions in contemporary and classical dance and music for audiences from
southeastern Connecticut and southwest Rhode Island. Artists will include jazz violinist Regina Carter and Doug
Varone and Dancers.
Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
$55,000 Waterford, CT
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval.
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Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval.
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