LOCAL GRANTS AWARDED FOR Lakeville
The Lakeville Selectmen, Dan Cooney and Joanne Corrieri-Upham, co-chairs of the Lakeville Arts Council, have announced the award of 16 grants totaling $4,000, for cultural programs in Lakeville/Middleboro areas. The grants were awarded from a pool of funds distributed to Lakeville by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency that supports public programs and educational activities in the arts, sciences and humanities.
Many thanks are owed to State Senator Jack Hart (D-S. Boston) and State Representative Eric Turkington (D-Falmouth), Co-Chairs of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development as well as Dan Hunter, director of Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, & Humanities (MAASH) for their efforts to restore most of the 63% cuts in funding from 2002. Everyone benefits from these programs, because they enrich our cultural life as well as add to the economic vitality of our communities.
This year’s grant recipients include the Lakeville Garden Club, The Organic Mom and Theatre One Productions. Grant recipients also include a Cultural Presentation Series to be held at the Lakeville Public Library most months between February and August for programs such as the demonstration of Colonial Life in the 18th Century by the South Coast Historical Association and the Showstoppers who will open the Summer Reading program at the library in June. A complete list of recipients and grant amounts can be found below and for a list of the Library activities, please check the Lakeville library website at www.lakevillelibrary.org.
The Lakeville Cultural Council is part of a grass-roots network of 329 local councils that serve every city and town in the state. The program is the largest, most decentralized one of its kind in the United States. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which then allocates funds to each local council. Decisions about which activities to support are made at the community level by a board of municipally appointed volunteers.
Statewide, more than $1.9 million will be distributed by local cultural councils in 2007. Grants will support an enormous range of grass-roots activities: concerts, exhibitions, radio and video productions, field trips for schoolchildren, after-school youth programs, writing workshops, historical preservation efforts, lectures, First Night celebrations, nature and science education programs for families as well as our own Arts and Music Festival to be held this year September 29, 2007. Nearly half of LCC funds support educational activities for young people. This includes the PASS Program, which provides subsidies for school children to attend cultural field trips.
The Lakeville Arts Council will seek applications again in the fall. Information and forms are available on the MCC website and are due Oct. 15, 2007. This year's grants in Lakeville are as follows:
Applicant
Project Title
Amt
Lakeville Public Library
Tattle Tunes
$ 325
Lakeville Haunted House Inc.
Haunted House 2007
$ 100
Lakeville Garden Club
Garden Club Small Standard Flower Show
$ 500
Lakeville Council on Aging
Irish Musical Program
$ 399
Daniel Cooney
Lakeville Four Seasons Painting Series
$ 400
Friends of The Lakeville Public Library
Pottery Workshop
$ 300
Lakeville United Church of Christ
Flavors and Sounds of Lakeville
$ 100
Theatre One Production, Inc.
New Works-Plays
$ 100
Friends of the Middleborough Public Library
Celebrating Stories
$ 100
South Coast Historical Association
Colonial Life in 18th century
$ 250
Soule Homestead Education Center
Harvest Fair&Joe Davies Folk Music Festival
$ 250
Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Musical Titans 2006-07 Season
$ 150
The Organic Mom, Inc.
The Organic mom Magazine- First Issue
$ 100
Gary Jackson
Contempaissance-Flute and Guitar
$ 400
Bob E. Thomas
"When The Animals Danced" Stories& Dances
$ 376
Kelly Zucco
Showstopers Performing Arts
$ 150
