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Pioneer Valley Symphony (photo by Nancy Palmieri)

Northampton Arts Council Announces LCC Fall 2011 Grant Award Winners

The Northampton Arts Council is pleased to announce the awarding of 19 LCC/MCC 2011 grants totaling $8,650 in support of a variety of projects. The caliber of applications this round was outstanding, and we were unable to fund many worthy projects. The Arts Council received 35 requests for almost $30,000 of funding. These grants were awarded from funds allocated by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. These grants were awarded in the following categories: Film/Video, Mixed Media Music, Schools, Theater and Visual Art.

FILM/VIDEO

$250 to the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival for a festival of Jewish films to take place from March 14-29, 2012.

MIXED MEDIA

$500 to the Ben Hersey for the project “War/Peace.” This project will feature a guided workspace for community members to cultivate a better understanding of war and peace and a culminating performance.

MUSIC

$250 to Music In Deerfield, Inc. for its six-concert season. Each concert will include a pre-concert educational discussion. This winter concert season will take place in Sweeney Concert Hall in Northampton until March 31, 2012.

$350 to Ricardo Frota for the project “Ecology of Sound,” a performance of Brazilian music using natural made instruments on August 16, 2012 at Forbes Library in Northampton.

$250 to Novi Cantori of Greater Springfield, Inc. for its spring choral concert featuring pieces by Bach and Mozart. The concert will take place on April 22, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. at St. John’s Church in Northampton.

$250 to Hampshire Choral Society for “A Cambridge Mass” by Vaughn Williams. The concert will take place on January 22, 2012 at John M. Greene Hall in Northampton.

$250 to Da Camara Singers for their project “Classics New & Old: Brown, Britten, Barber, Bach.” The project consists of two concert series in January and June.

$250 to the Arcadia Players for their 23rd season of spring concerts on February 25 at the Abbey Chapel at Mount Holyoke College and on March 24 at Sage Hall at Smith College.  

$300 to Carolyn Smith for the concert with Grammy-nominated jazz singer Karrin Allyson and a featured artist.  

$400 to Jeannette Muzima for the project “A Jazz Concert with the Sojourner Truth Quartet” which will feature women instrumentalists and composers.

SCHOOLS

$250 to Amanda Weisenthal at Northampton High School for “Playwriting in the Production Process.” This residency will introduce students at Northampton High School to the methodology and techniques of playwriting.

$1000 to Stephen Eldredge and Northampton High School for a production of “Pinocchio” written, produced, directed, composed, choreographed, and performed by students of Northampton High School. The performance will take place the Academy of Music Theatre, April 19-21.

THEATER

$325 to Robert Reiser for the project “Hear that Whistle Blow” which celebrates the story of America’s railroads in story and song.

$750 to the Survival Theatre Project at Women’s Educational Center for theater workshops for survivors of sexual violence.

$900 to Voices from Inside for a spoken word and slam style poetry event featuring the poetry of formerly incarcerated women.

VISUAL ARTS

$375 to Gregory Maichack for the workshop “Georgia O’Keeffe: How to Paint Pastel Flowers.” The workshop will take place at Forbes Library in Northampton on March 14, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

$600 to Brendan McCauley and Katherine Romansky for their project “Best Bands Forever” which explores the relationship between Northampton’s visual arts and music communities by providing an opportunity for the community to create merchandise and promotional materials for imagined bands.

$650 to Louise Kohrman for the exhibition “Mapping Pattern: Works on Paper” which will showcase unconventional, contemporary works on paper that explore themes of patterned repetition. The exhibition will take place in September at A.P.E., Ltd, in Northampton.

$750 to David Teeple for the “Water Music” archive which will contain a small-scale reproduction of the sculpture on the Route 9 Railroad Bridge as well as reproductions of sketches and CAD drawings which will be donated to the Forbes Library Local History Collection.