City Doles Out Grants for a Year of Performances in Public Spaces
Shakespeare in Clark Park is among the first to receive a grant from the City’s Performances in Public Spaces initiative.
This afternoon, Mayor Nutter and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) announced the first benefactors of the City’s new Performances in Public Spaces initiative. The program provides $60,000 worth of grant money to local artists and organizations to pay for performances in parks and other public spaces throughout the city.
According to a press release sent out today, the OACCE received 79 applications and whittled that down to these 23 grantees. Here are the winning organizations and where you can expect to see their performances this year:
- Ars Nova Workshop at Bartram’s Garden
- Bagpipes for All Occasions at Marconi Plaza
- Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia at FDR Park
- Germantown Artists Roundtable at Vernon Park
- INVISIBLE RIVER at Spruce Street Harbor Park
- Jazz Bridge at Hawthorne Park
- Mad Beatz Music at Fairhill Square Park
- Rock to the Future at Clark Park
- SEAMAAC at Hawthorne Park
- Shakespeare in Clark Park at Clark Park
- Sister Cities Girlchoir at Race Street Pier
- Tangle Movement Arts at Clark Park
- Theatre in the X at Malcolm X Park
- Tomorrows Girls/Four Women at Vernon Park
- The Clay Studio at Frankford Pause
- Harry Walthers Band at Gorgas Park
- Images of the Motherland Interactive Theatre at Venice Island Performing Arts and Recreation Center
- Pasion y Arte Flamenco Company at The Porch at 30th Street Station
- Philadelphia Folksong Society at Saunders Park
- Philadelphia School of Circus Arts at Paine’s Park
- Power Street Theatre Company at Frankford Pause
- Tonantzin Coatlicue Aztec Dance at Hunting Park, Campbell Square
- Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania at Pearl Street at the Asian Arts Initiative
The grant money will fund 24 performances throughout the city from April 1st to November 1st of this year.
“I am looking forward to seeing how these performances make use of the diverse, dynamic spaces in the city and the way the public responds to and engages with these performances in non-traditional locations,” said Mayor Nutter in the press release. “We hope that this program will demonstrate the breadth and vitality of Philadelphia’s artistic community, encourage people to explore their interests in performance art and inspire continued creative use of public spaces beyond this program.”
Stay tuned to our weekly “Things to Do” guides for info on all these upcoming performances.
