DVAA Funds Sullivan County Organizations for 2008 Cultural Programs

Nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars in grants has been awarded to fourteen Sullivan County non-profit cultural organizations for cultural programming throughout the county during the year 2008. Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, regranted these funds through the Decentralization Program (DEC) of the New York State Council on the Arts.
 
Assemblymember Aileen Gunther presented the awards at a reception held on February 2, 2008 at the Arts Center at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY for the following organizations: Callicoon Center Band of Callicoon Center, NY for summer band concerts; Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum of Livingston Manor, NY for the workshop component of an evolving exhibit; Delaware Youth Center of Callicoon, NY for multi-discipline youth workshops; Ethelbert B. Crawford Library of Monticello, NY for sixteen free performances for children; Friends of Sunshine Hall of Eldred, NY for a winter cultural program; Icehouse Arts of Narrowsburg, NY for two youth video workshops; Ill Winds Chamber Ensemble of Narrowsburg, NY for a Sullivan County Composers Festival concert; Liberty Free Theatre of Liberty, NY for production costs of “Kinfolks and Mountain Music;” Roscoe Free Library of Roscoe, NY for an intergenerational fine arts workshops; Sullivan County Community Chorus of Monticello, NY for choral concerts; Town of Fallsburg (as a conduit for St. Andrew’s Mission) for artists’ fees for two chamber music concerts; Town of Lumberland Cultural Series for three concerts; Triad Dance Ensemble of Yulan, NY for development of a new series of dances; and Tusten Historical Society of Narrowsburg for a colonial folk art weekend series.

DVAA seeks candidates to serve on future grant panels. A likely panelist is a citizen informed about the arts and/or county cultural events. A panelist can serve for up to 3 years. Duties consist of reading applications and participating in two meetings. For further information about program eligibility or developing proposals, call Dorothy Hartz, Grant Program Coordinator, at 845-252-7576.

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Assemblymember Aileen Gunther congratulates Ron Littke of Icehouse Arts, recipient of a 2008 Decentralization Grant.