FY2000 Region 8 Grants

Area 10 Council on Aging of Monroe and Owen Counties
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $3,635 County: Monroe
Funds requested to continue the arts and humanities programming at the Endwright Center and to extend the classes to two other senior centers in Owen County.

Bloomington Chamber Singers
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $4,133 County: Monroe
Requesting funding for the performance of the complete "Messiah" by Georg Fredric Handel with choir and small orchestra for the BCS spring concert.

Bloomington Playwrights Project, Inc.
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $6,447 County: Monroe
Funds requested for the salaries and administration costs associated with the production of the BPP 1999-2000 production series of five slots with eight performances each.

Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Grant Program: AOS/I Grant Amount: $1,406 County: Monroe
Request for funds for general operating support for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra

Brown County: Art Gallery Foundation, Inc.
Grant Program: AOS/I Grant Amount: $4,045 County: Brown
Operating support for the gallery, classes, workshops, fairs and exhibitions for the Brown County: art community

Brown County: Playhouse, Inc.
Grant Program: AOS/II Grant Amount: $16,541 County: Monroe
Funds requested for operating support of the 1999 summer theatre season of the Brown County: Playhouse in Nashville, Indiana.

City of Bloomington Parks & Recreation
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $502 County: Monroe
Funding to pay performers and arts education people for the "A Fair of the Arts" arts fair taking place one Saturday a month over the summer at the Showers Building parking lot.

Early Music Associates, Inc.
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $6,147 County: Monroe
Funds requested for the productions, performances, and promotions of the 7th annual Bloomington Early Music Festival.

Harmony School Corporation, dba Bloomington Community
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: County: Monroe
Request funds to provide15 theatrical circus performances throughout the state during summer and early fall which are affordable and accessible to all.

Indiana University fiscal sponsor for Indiana Review
Grant Program: AOS/I Grant Amount: $3,471 County: Monroe
Funds are requested to pay artists to contribute cover art and photographic essays; to cover production costs; to cover marketing for the locally produced national literary magazine, Indiana Review.

Indiana University fiscal sponsor for School of Fine Arts
Grant Program: AOS/I Grant Amount: $5,756 County: Monroe
Presentation of a series of exhibitions of contemporary art that feature local, national, and international artists. Several exhibitions planned for the 1999-2000 season have a strong connection with the Bloomington community and feature works by Indiana artists.

Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, Inc.
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $6,672 County: Monroe
Funds requested from the IAC will be used to help offset the cost of venue rentals, artists' performance fees, transportation, and accomodation costs for the 1999 Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.

North Lawrence Community Schools
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $6,822 County: Monroe
Funds requested to bring nine enrichment performances to the highschool's Performing Arts Auditorium for the benefit of the entire K-12 school district.

Shawnee Summer Theatre of Greene County: , Inc.
Grant Program: AOS/I Grant Amount: $6,246 County: Greene
To support artistic salaries and marketing stragegies of the Shawnee Theatre; in short, to produce another summer theatre season.

Voces Novae, Inc.
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $1,687 County: Monroe
Funds for the production of a CD of music and readings to comfort hospice patients and their families with themes around the theme of the inevitability of approaching death.

Windfall Dancers, Inc.
Grant Program: APS Grant Amount: $2,339 County: Monroe
Funds requested to defray the cost of reahearsal and studio space for the development of a series of dance events by the Windfall Dancers, Inc.