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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No. V- A
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: January 19, 1993
SUBJECT: Orange County Arts Commission Presentation of Grant Awards & Report
DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No
Recreation & Parks
ATTACHMENT (S) : INFORMATION CONTACT:
List of Local Arts Grant Award Recipients Wilma K. Tinney, Ext. 2669
for 1992/93. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
Hillsborough - 732-8181
Chapel Hill - 968-4501
Mebane - 227-2031
Durham - 688-7331
PURPOSE:
1. Presentation of Orange County Arts Commission grant awards.
2. Informational report--to the Board regarding activities and goals of the Arts Commission.
BACKGROUND:
The Orange County Arts Commission was created by a resolution of the Board of County
Commissioners on February 4, 1985. The Arts Commission is the official county-wide
advisory body on the arts. It's primary goals are: (1) to serve as the Local Distributing
Agent of State. Grassroots Grants and local (Orange County) funds; (2) to serve as a
"clearing house" for information on the arts; (3) to facilitate the development of self-
sustaining arts programs; and (4) to advise the Board of Commissioners on matters
involving the arts.
RECOMMENDATION(S) :
The Manager recommends that the Board of Commissioners present the grant awards to the
recipients and receive the status report for information only.
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1992-93 Orange County Arts Grants Recipients
Grantee Protect Award
Cameron Park School African-American Dance Ensemble $300.
Performance
CHCCS PTA Cultural Tarradiddle Players $750.
Enrichment Committee block-booking
Community Youth Marketing summer program $350.
Theatre
Durham Symphony Home and Garden Tour Pops Concert $700.
Families Night Out "Freedom Train Community
at the ArtsCenter Residency" $500.
Family Programs at Scholarships and performance
the ArtsCenter support for school shows $800.
Grady Brown School Arts enrichment activities $700.
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Hillsborough Arts Youth Creative Expression awards $800.
Council
Musica Chamber Music competition $500.
honoraria and publicity expenses
NC Writers' Network Honoraria for panelists at $1,000.
"It All Begins at Home. . . "
conference
New Hope School "All Around the World with $350.
Cultural Arts Comm. Stories" project
No Forwarding Address Stipends for "Fathers' Day in $750.
America" performances at UNC
Orange County Women's "Through Women' s Eyes"
Center 9th Annual Art Show $1,000.
Secondary Choral Music Voices on the Hill $1,000.
Educators Choral Residency
St. Mary's School-- Art Alive-Visual Artist $200.
Friends of the Arts residency
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Grantee Protect Award
St. Thos. More Cultural Multi-Cultural Arts $500.
Enrichment Committee Experiences
Stanback Middle School 7th Celebration of the Arts $750.
Stanford Middle School Multi-cultural performances $500.
Chapel Hill Ballet Co. "Cinderella" production $500.
expenses
Triangle Note-Ables Gospel music workshop $250.
TOTAL: $12,200.
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