ORLEANS – The Orleans Cultural Council announced more than $5,000 in grant funding to 16 recipients.
The council is part of a statewide network of Local Cultural Councils that supports thousands of community-based projects in the arts, sciences, and humanities every year.
Grants support a wide range of activities including concerts, exhibitions, theater, radio and video productions, school field trips, after school programs, historical preservation efforts, lectures, nature and science education programs, and town festivals.
The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Mass Cultural Council which then allocates funds to each community.
Decisions about which activities to support are made at the community level by a board of municipally appointed volunteers.
This year’s Orleans Cultural Council grant recipients include:
Orleans Senior Center – Listen and Lunch
Outer Cape Chorale 2019
Open Mic Classical
Mass Audubon: Orleans Elementary School
Academy of Performing Arts Scholarships
Alzheimer’s Family Support Center
Meeting House Chamber Music Festival
Cape Cod Children’s Place – Free Family Fun Fair
Cape Cod Chamber Music Summer Concerts
A Ballooniverse of Stories – Snow Library
A Universe of Songs and Stories – Snow Library
Move and Groove Family Fitness Fun
The Art of Costumes Exhibit
Opera Theater of Cape Cod
Cape Cod Museum of Art – Finding Your Voice Through Arts
Nauset Regional Middle School – Arts Day 2019
Statewide, more than $3.3 million will be distributed by local cultural councils in 2019. Nearly half of LCC funds support educational activities for young people.
The Orleans Cultural Council will seek grant applications again in the fall. For grant guidelines, contact OCC Chairperson JoAnna Keeley at 508-367-0114.
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