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ANNUAL GRANTS PROGRAM
2009-2010
AWARDS
Congratulations!
The City of Pasadena, the Arts & Culture Commission
and the Cultural Affairs division announce 22 awards
to local artists and organizations for the 2009-2010
Annual Grants Program. A total of $108,000 in
general funds will support the awards, which have
been supplemented by $34,600 in Cultural Trust Funds
by the Arts & Culture Commission.
This year’s awardees will receive
funding for Pasadena-based projects as diverse as Southwest
Chamber’s Ascending Dragon Vietnamese music festival and
PlayWriteGirl, a literacy mentorship program for at-risk teen girls
at the Pasadena Playhouse.
The Annual Grants program honors
programs of excellence that expand exposure and access to the arts.
Funded projects will span the community including every Council
district and many PUSD schools. Past Art Grants awards have
reached audiences of over 200,000 people.
Click
here to
view the full list of 2009-2010 Grants Awardees.
For more
information, please contact Cultural Affairs: 744-7071.
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October 30, 2009
Yesterday, Congress passed a $12.5 million funding increase as
part of the FY 2010 Interior Appropriations bill for both the
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH). President Obama is scheduled to sign
this bill into law by October 31, which concludes
National Arts and Humanities Month. The nation's two federal
grantmaking cultural agencies will now each have budgets of
$167.5 million, their highest funding levels in 16 years. As so
many state and local governments have had to cut arts budgets
across the country, this well-timed federal appropriations
increase for the arts is a welcome infusion of funds.
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Enacted FY09 |
FY10
Final Interior
Appropriations Bill |
FY09 vs. FY10
Difference |
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NEA |
$155 million |
$167.5
million |
$12.5 million
increase |
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NEH |
$155 million |
$167.5
million |
$12.5 million
increase |
The FY 2010 Interior Appropriations bill (H.R. 2996) was passed
in the House by a vote of 247ญญ-178 and in the Senate by a vote
of 72-28. Please
play your part and send a quick e-mail to your members of
Congress at the Americans for the Arts E-Advocacy Center and let
them know how much the arts will benefit from this funding
increase.
What's Next:
While the NEA and NEH's budgets have now been finalized, many
other federal programs such as the Institute of Museum and
Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are
still operating under a continuing resolution until December 18,
2009. We will keep you posted on these legislative updates in
the coming weeks.
In the meantime, please save the dates of April 12-13, 2010 for
National Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC. With the
incredible advocacy success that we had this year that included
$50 million in the federal economic stimulus bill for arts jobs
and now the $12.5 million increase in NEA and NEH budgets, we
need to keep building on this positive momentum. Come join us.
Help us also continue this important work by becoming an
official member of the Arts Action Fund. If you are not already
an official member, you can
join the Arts Action Fund today --
it's free and simple.
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Animation Expo
Nov 20-22, 2009
Burbank Convention
Center USA
For more information
click
here
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Music lovers, community
supporters and friends,
Toe Tappin’, finger snappin’ Big Fun is set for Saturday
December 19th inside the Grand Ballroom of the newly renovated
Pasadena Convention Center.
Please visit
www.nutcrackerswings.com for more info and to buy your
tickets. This concert is sure to sell out, so buy your tickets
now to get great seats. What's more, you can choose to have a
three course meal served at your table, enjoy a holiday buffet
or eat at your favorite restaurant--redwhite+bluezz.
Whether you join the festivities alone, share them with loved
ones and family or entertain your staff or clients with a
private table, please join me in celebrating Christmas in
Pasadena.
Please join me for The Nutcracker Swings, A Cool Jazz Christmas!
Buy your tickets tonight!
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GOLD LINE TOUR
Dear All,
Attached is a flyer of a great
tour conducted by historian Michael Several on behalf of a grant
he received from the California Council for Humanities about the
Gold Line project and specifically the art program. The tour is
free and cost that of an all day pass on the Metro. I know this
is short notice for the tour this weekend, but he is also
conducting these in November and a couple in 2010.
I’ve known Michael for many
years and he always does wonderful research. I will be working
with him on the November tour which is tentatively planned for
Sunday November 15th, 2009.
For more information, please
respond to the email address on the flyer.
click here
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Dear Arts and Education Funders,
The case studies report on the first 11 school districts to join
L.A. County’s arts education initiative: Arts for All: The
Vanguard Districts – Case Studies from the First Five Years.
The Arts Commission commissioned the studies to document lessons
learned by the school districts as they developed arts education
plans and started implementation. The case studies report was
originally an internal document but the findings are so compelling
we felt it was important to share our lessons with all those
concerned with arts education.
A press release regarding the report is available here:
http://www.lacountyarts.org/announcements/anncmt_A4A_casestud_rel.pdf.
The full report is available online at
http://lacountyarts.org/artsed/casestudies.html. We’ve broken it
down into sections to make the information more accessible. The
Executive Summary is a good place to start. The case studies for
each of the 11 districts can be accessed separately. I would love to
hear your comments and feedback on the report and hope you will pass
on this message to your colleagues.
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 Downtown
Public Art Audio Tours and Walking Tours Maps
Click
here for more information
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The USC Annenberg School for Communication and The
Getty Foundation are pleased to announce the 8th
annual USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism
Fellowship.
For
more information view flyer below, PDF version
attached, or visit:
http://annenberg.usc.edu/getty.
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FY 2009 Grant Awards: American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
For more details please go to
http://www.nea.gov/index.html or
http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/index.html
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING PASADENA ORGANIZATIONS ON THEIR NEA
STIMULUS AWARDS!!!
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The Armory
Center for the Arts $50,000
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Art Center
College of Design $50,000
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Pasadena Arts
Council $25,000-
Pasadena
Playhouse State Theater of California, Inc. $50,000
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POLISH MAYORS VISIT
CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Dear Rochelle,
Thank you so much for meeting with our
visitors last Monday. We really enjoyed learning about the
Robinson Memorial and all the fantastic cultural programs
Pasadena offers. I will be sure to attend one of these
programs and will keep a look-out for the temporary artwork
you mentioned. We really appreciate the time you spent with
us and I know the visitors left with some great ideas that
they can apply to their work at home.
I have attached some photos of you and the
visitors.
Thanks again,
Dana
Dana Schwarz
Program Officer
(Click to on Photo View Enlarged Version)
 
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Dear Pasadena Arts &
Culture Community: Do you support a Federal cabinet position
for the Arts?
Click here to view the petition
Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask
President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts.
While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or
Culture for centuries, the United States has never created
such a position. We in the arts need this and the country
needs the arts--now more than ever. Please take a moment to
sign this important petition and then pass it on to your
friends and colleagues.
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PASADENA CULTURE NET (PCN)
is your portal to everything that is cultural in Pasadena.
From this site, access the website to each of our cultural
institutions,
a daily calendar of cultural activities, interactive map of
cultural sites, or subscribe for free to receive electronic
postings.
HOW TO CONTACT US
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Cultural
Affairs supports the arts & culture in Pasadena. It also
promotes Pasadena in Southern California and nationally as a
center of American cultural history as well as a vibrant
arena for the creation of new art and film.
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