Arts Mayor’s Office Grants
posted by June 28 at 13:14 PM
onIt’s not secret that I am sometimes put out with the choices funders and residencies make when doling out awards. So it’s only fair that I praise the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs for announcing their awards to what sound like some promising projects:
Awards include $5,000 to Jennifer Zeyl [of Washington Ensemble Theatre] to direct Hedda: Blah, Blah, Bang, a reconstruction of Hedda Gabler, a classic Henrik Ibsen play;
$8,500 to William Smith to compose, record and present Jazzopera, a lecture-performance combining elements of classical music and jazz;
$2,600 to Elspeth Savani Macdonald to present a concert of original boleros, sambas and folkloric music;
$1,500 to Raymond Houle to present Against the Grain/Men in Dance, a series of performances highlighting the evolution of male dance in contemporary society;
$10,000 to Lucia Neare to present Lullaby Carriage, an outdoor, interdisciplinary “dream-theater” piece;
$9,500 to Haruko Nishimura [of Degenerate Art Ensemble] to create a series of solo dance performances in partnership with dance, theater and music artists.
(I’m a little suspicious of that outdoor “‘dream-theater’ piece,” but I’ll hold my horses until I’ve seen it.)
Comments
Don't let Mayor Nickels say he never gets good Slog.
I'm still tired of him.
Did the guys from "Awesome" get a grant too?
I'll forgive you for ignoring puppets if you say yes.
Aw c'mon guys, it's not like Mayor Gridlock hand-picked these projects; he might perform some sort of prefunctory sign-off on the selections presented to him by A&CA, but I'd be surprised if his involvement in the selection process amounted to anything more than that.
Awesome got 5 Gs for their fall show which will open at PICA September 8th. Aaaaaaaaaand I'm directing that show.
Yay Haruko!!!!!!!!!! Yay WET!
& Do you know if that William Smith is the UW clarinet/Stuart Dempster collaborator guy?
Yep, aka Bill Smith, William O. Smith. He played at Stuart's birthday party at Town Hall last year.
Yay that too then.
I like the Arch grant at Gasworks.
Where can we see the full list of grantees?
You may see a full list of 2007 CityArtist grantees on the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Web site http://www.seattle.gov/arts/funding/individual_partners.asp:
Oops. The Web link in my previous posting was incorrect. An extra character crept in. You can find the full list of 2007 CityArtists here http://www.seattle.gov/arts/funding/individual_partners.asp
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