Culture and Heritage Commission awards regrants

Fourteen local non-profit groups have received 2009 arts regrants totaling $60,627 from the County’s Culture and Heritage Commission.
The 2009 recipients are:
Access to Art – $7,000 to present Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” by the Aquila Theatre Company, Nov. 14 at the Middle Township Performing Arts Center in Cape May Court House.
Avalon Free Library History Center – $400 for three programs that will include costumed interpretation, music concepts of culture, and puppet theatre.
The Avalon Performing Arts Council – $4,500 to present various events, including the 27th annual art show and sale.
West Wildwood – $4,299 award will help to fund a summer concert series.
Cape Shore Chorus Sweet Adelines International – $3,000 for women’s barbershop chorus Holiday Musical Review Dec. 5.
The Friends of the Ocean City Pops – $6,000 for opera singers Stephen Costello, tenor, and Ailyn Perez, soprano, in concert with the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Aug. 20 at the Ocean City Music Pier.
Historic Cold Spring Village – $2,500 to present live cultural entertainment at the 5th Annual Celtic Festival June 7 and 8.
John Walter Cape Community Band – $1,000 for new music scores and to produce a live concert CD for distribution.
The Masterworks Choir – $5,000 to present Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and San Saen’s “Christmas Oratorio” Dec. 6, St. Peter’s United Methodist Church, Ocean City.
Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum – $1,000 to research and produce two Big Band Concerts.
Ocean City’s Arts Center – $9,000 will offer instruction in visual arts, dance, and the performing arts.
Ocean City’s Fine Arts League – $8,000 to present a variety of exhibitions, performances, events, educational activities and outreach programs.
Woodbine’s Puerto Rican Action Committee – $3,400 for authentic Hispanic music and dance, arts and crafts at the bilingual, 16th Annual Hispanic Heritage Family Festival Sept. 19.
Lower Township – $5,528 for an eight-week, multi-medium summer arts program for ages 10-14 in which students learn about different artists, their works, and how to use the masters’ ideas in their own efforts.
The balance of the grant will be used for a visiting Children’s Author/Illustrator program – $4,000; technical assistance workshops for local non-profit groups – $1,500; and evaluators for the 2010 regrant applications $750.
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
The County Division of Culture and Heritage administers the regrant program located in the Beesley House, 605 Route 9 North, Cape May Court House. Business hours Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Visit cmcculture.org or call 463-6370. Free brochures about some of the local groups are available at the Division office.