2010 Fund Grantees: Multidisciplinary
- 6th Street and Avenue B Garden, Inc.
- 6th & B Garden Events Program: a 6-month season of multidisciplinary arts events at 6th Street & Avenue B Community Garden.
- Action Arts League, Inc.
- The FIGMENT Arts Festival: a three-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The event is free and open to the public to attend, participate, and contribute works of art.
- Art for Change
- Hacia Afuera: a two-day pubic arts festival in East Harlem that explores issues of displacement and community collaboration, held in August 2010.
- Borough of Manhattan Community College Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Inc.
- Artists-in-Residence Work and Show Festival: culmination of a residency that brings emerging and evolving composers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists, directors and writers to BMCC Tribecca PAC for one year to develop projects that are shared with an audience in the annual “Work and Show Festival.”
- The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare
- A series of fifteen, 2-hour weekly performance workshops will enable participants from the Creative Center (people living with cancer and other chronic illnesses), and seniors from the University Settlement Community to develop a performance piece through movement and language on the theme of the self-portrait.
- Earth Celebrations
- The Hudson River Pageant: Art & Ecology Project: engages youth, community people, schools, community centers and organizations through a series of 30 art & ecology workshops culminating in a parade and theatrical pageant celebrating the Hudson River
- Experimental Theatre Project
- WOW Cafe Theatre Anniversary Festival: an 18-day long series of multidisciplinary performances celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first Women’s One World Festival in the East Village, which has continuously and uniquely provided creative opportunities for a diverse community.
- The India Center
- Saraswati Indian Classical Arts Festival: a day of Indian Classical Dance, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music and more.
- Les Ballets de l’Opera Chinois de New York, Inc.
- Bejing Opera Ballet Gala: a performance featuring 36 people in a work that integrates Beijing Opera, Ballet and Kung Fu. The work will be presented at the World Financial Center in February 2010.
- Manhattan Amateur Art and Columbus Music Association, Inc.
- Four Season Festival Concert: a series of four concerts featuring local and Chinese songs, dances, music and fashions.
- New York Hang Tang Culture & Art Center, Inc.
- New Year Performance: to celebrate the new year, a top female artist invited from Shanghai will collaborate with this organization to bring a 3-hour, high quality Chinese Opera performance to local audiences, including amateurs and fans.
- NYC Kidsfest
- NYC Kidsfest: a one-day, free multicultural children’s festival of high quality performing artists in Morningside Park.
- Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
- Our Time NYC: approximately 30 young people who stutter, ages 8-18, will attend 34 weekly workshops/rehearsals led by a team of professionals artists to create original theater, music, and film, culminating in 10 short films and 11 plays/musicals that are presented to the pubic at New York City Off-Broadway theatres.
- Pan American Musical Art Research, Inc.
- Latin American Cultural Week: a multi-venue event featuring performances, exhibitions and events that showcase music, dance, film, visual and performing artists from or influenced by the diverse countries of Latin America, taking place in November 2010.
- Rev. Linnette C. Williamson Memorial Park Association
- Art and the Gardens Summer Youth Enrichment Program: operates for seven weeks, eight hours a day, five days a week, with instruction and activities in the visual and performing arts, literacy, horticulture, agriculture and environmental education for inner-city children ages 5-12.
- Tong Xiao Ling Chinese Opera Ensemble
- Empress Wu Ze Tian: a two-and-half hour, fully staged Beijing Opera performance with live orchestra in Manhattan.
- Umami: food and art festival / NY Food Museum
- Umami:food and art festival brings together artists who use food as a medium with food professionals through a series of performances, exhibits, discussions and educational workshops for children and teens. The festival celebrates art based in everyday life and encouraging dialogue about food across the community.
- Yugntruf — Youth for Yiddish
- Yidish-tog: a one-day version of Yugntruf’s annual week-long “Yidish-vokh”, offers seminars, hands-on workshops, and a evening dance concert presenting traditional and contemporary Yiddish culture to Manhattan’s Jewish and non-Jewish communities, from children to seniors.
- ZEYBRAH
- Moment in Time Event: includes 4 months of rehearsals culminating in an African and Afro-Cuban dance/music/drama to be featured at ZEYBRAH’s 11th annual “Moment in Time Festival” in Harlem.
