Grantees All Genres
The Eco Rise
Poetic People Power
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
A poetic show spotlighting environmental heroes
- Website https://www.facebook.com/poeticpeoplepower
Goldmine Inclusive Theatre for Children, Teens, and Adults with Disabilities
Positive Action Community Theatre (PACT)
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Goldmine Inclusive Theatre programs provide high quality theatre training and expression for children, teens, and adults with disabilities. They consist of an approximately 50/50 combination of those with disabilities and their typical peers.
- Website http://www.pacthouse.org
Inclusive Performing Arts Workshops for Individuals with Disabilities (2014)
Positive Action Community Theatre (PACT)
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Our theatre and performing arts workshops teach life skills to children, teens, and young adults with high functioning autism/Aspergers. We utilize improvisational theatre and choreographed dance to popular music sung by the group.
- Website http://www.pacthouse.org
Theatre for Autism
Positive Action Community Theatre (PACT)
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
‘Theatre for Autism’ provided people on the autism spectrum with theatre workshops and an opportunity to perform theatre out in the community as employees of our organization. This broadened the reach of theatre to a population that is often excluded from mainstream opportunities in the arts.
- Website www.pacthouse.org
Progressive Diasporas
Prajapati, Sheetal
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Progressive Diasporas is a curatorial project series exploring the experiences and intersections of immigrant diasporas through a set of collaboratively developed, cumulative experiences and events featuring artist Umber Majeed and artist collective Adobo-Fish-Sauce.
Goodness
Project Y Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
GOODNESS, by Sean Christopher Lewis, was performed at Under St. Marks Theater in June 2012. It was directed by Michole Biancosino, with Teresa Stephenson, Aaliyah Muneerah Habeeb, Shannon Michael Wamser, Roland Lane, and Keona Welch.
- Website http://www.projectytheatre.org/2000/07/goodness/
First Comes Love
Proud, B.
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
First Comes Love is a celebration of long-term relationships in the LGBTQ community through black and white photographic portraits with accompanying stories, and video. The hardbound book published by Soleil Press will be available in September 2014.
- Website http://www.firstcomeslove.org
Puppetry in Practice Stop-Motion Animation Artist Residency
Puppetry in Practice
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Puppetry in Practice reaches approximately 20 NYC schools with its diverse arts-based and literacy-driven programming. More than half request Stop-Motion Animation or Film projects. This program improves digital literacy and creativity.
- Website puppetryinpractice.org
MIZARU ~see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil~
Purring Tiger/ Aaron Sherwood & Kiori Kawai
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
MIZARU is a dance performance with interactive multimedia and live music, exploring life and death, technology and the human body.
- Website http://www.purringt.com/mizaru
The Lazarus Rose
Rael, Christopher
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Centuries-old Sephardic Jewish songs arranged and performed by contemporary world music chamber ensemble with instruments from India, Andalusia, Turkey, string orchestra and a chorus of soaring voices, a diasporic experience in the age of technology.
- Website www.chrisrael.com