Grantee tags music

“The Life and Times of a Coral Polyp”

St. John School of the Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

KICK IT! (Kids Impacting and Connecting with Kids through Informative Technology) offers children ages 9 – 17 a three-week summer intensive program that teaches children how to make a video while promoting an important message. Read More

Just AART

TWP-The Youth Movement

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Just AART (Artist, Activist, Relying on Technology) gives young people a chance to facilitate a unique community based program using music, spoken work and drama to make Public Service Announcements. Read More

Red Thread: the prisoner and the painter

Spear, Duston

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Two women of the sixties in their sixties examine the choices that has kept one of them in prison for thirty years and find that they share the invisibility of aging and internment. Based on the poetry of former radical, Judy Clark. Read More

Seven Star Suite

Birkett, Tyrone

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Tyrone Birkett is a New York City based saxophonist, composer and producer. “The Seven Star Suite” is entitled in reference to the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper constellation, which that guided the American enslaved to freedom via the Underground Rai Read More

Whale Bones and the Boundary of a Fish (2014)

Dexa, Alexa

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Curated field recordings and lyrical historical narratives transforming Long Island landscapes into soundscapes. Read More

Musical Access: Music Week (2014)

SOUNDS Academy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Musical Access exposes students to different professions in the field of music through interactions with musicians. Performers share stories, answer questions, and speak about the importance of perseverance, teamwork, education, and music. Read More

The Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of Atheists (2014)

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

People are interviewed about their everyday lives, their routines, passions, family, and hobbies. These interviews are collaged with sound & music to make audio portraits of people from all walks of life (who happen to be atheists). Read More

Shakespeare(ISH) (2014)

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Shakespeare(ish) remixes Shakespeare’s best characters, poetry and plot devices with puppets, masks and original music. Read More

The Rights of Spring: The Persistence of Winter (2014)

The Puppeteers Cooperative

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A giant puppet pageant with adults and youth groups; played out-of-doors, and beginning with a parade. Read More

Living American Composers

Compact Discoveries, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Puffin Foundation's funds were used to help pay the costs of producing two one-hour Compact Discoveries radio programs featuring, exclusively, the recorded works of living American composers. Read More