2008 Arts and Education Council Grantees
(alphabetical listing)
Alexandra Ballet Company
Alexandra Ballet Company presents multiple public performances each year, including their Young People's Performance which inspires and entertains over 3000 students in one day at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.
Alton Symphony Orchestra
The Symphony continues its dedication to developing musical talent and interest with six concerts for its 2007-2008 season, including the Children's Christmas Concert and Young Artists Concert.
ANNONYArts
FOSTER DANCE and Art & Technology Internships for Boys bring educational opportunities to at-risk girls and boys in the st. Louis area. Local artists, writers and technicians teach the semester-long classes on dance, theatre, performance and more.
Art Saint Louis
The VOICES program focuses on diversity and the exploration of cultural heritage though art. Elementary and secondary school students are engaged through hands-on instruction and exhibition by the artists themselves, expanding the audience for art beyond gallery walls.
aTrek Dance Collective
Held throughout August of 2008, the 9th annual IMPULSE Dance Festival is an educational program that provides lectures, workshops, and performance opportunities to local students, educators, and professional artists.
Bach Society of Saint Louis
The oldest choral arts organization in St. Louis, Bach Society presents its 67th season with four concerts at renowned local venues including the Cathedral Basilca. Outreach programs, such as the Young Artists Awards, continue to celebrate and share the power of the human voice with the St. Louis community.
Cameron Youth Chamber Orchestra
The Cameron Youth Music Series provides youths with classical string training and quality instruments. The Orchestra has performed locally and nationally for noted artists and leaders including Wynton Marsalis, Jesse Jackson and Maya Angelou.
Center of Creative Arts (COCA)
COCA presents multi-cultural performances, programs and classes to more than 75,000 people each year. Classes in dance, music, drama and the visual arts are offered in outreach, after-school and scholarship programs and summer camps.
Chesterfield Arts
Arts in the Park is a free community celebration of arts in Faust Park, sponsored by Chesterfield Arts. The family friendly event offers a full day of hands-on activities lead by community artists in art and music; workshops in dance, poetry and drama; and special performances for adults and children.
Cinema St. Louis
The 17th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival will present independent films by local, regional, and international filmmakers. Held in November, the Festival brings cultural and education exposure to thousands of film patrons every year.
Circus Arts Foundation of Missouri (Circus Flora)
In June, Circus Flora combines a traditional one-ring circus with modern theater techniques to create a magical performance for all ages. Circus Flora continues to provide outreach with its Community Circus Camp series, which trains 60 underprivileged children in basic circus skills at no charge to their families.
Circus Day Foundation/Circus Harmony
Circus Harmony is a confluence of tumbling, juggling, balancing, and aerial artistry performed by children and set to a medley of melodies from various cultures. The youth circus performers present eight shows a week at the City Museum, building confidence and bringing together children from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Classic99 KFUO-FM
"From the Garden - LIVE" is a lively classical music performance series, designed to involve the local community as well as KFUO-FM's national and international radio audience. The free professional concerts are performed at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Community Health-in-Partnerships Services (CHIPS)
Using the arts to creatively teach community members about prevalent health and wellness issues, CHIPS in Motion presents four touring productions throughout the year. The productions are geared toward school-aged children and their families, teaching them to deal with challenges that they frequently encounter.
Community Music School of Webster University
The school provides instrumental music instruction, performances and workshops for students of all ages, abilities and socio-economic backgrounds. The four locations reach a 60-mile radius.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
The Contemporary Art Museum is dedicated to presenting and interpreting contemporary art and ideas through current exhibitions, public discussions and educational programs. One such program, New Art in the Neighborhood, provides talented, at-risk teens with pre-professional training in the visual arts in collaboration with Washington University School of Art.
Craft Alliance
Programs include education, hands-on workshops, student art advocacy and exhibitions by local and nationally recognized artists. In addition to scholarships, artist outreach and after-school programs, local and national professional artists share their talent with city and county school students, community centers and social service agencies.
Crescendo Concert Series
This season features The Borealis Woodwind Quartet presenting a concert on March 30, 2008 in St. Charles, MO. All concerts are introduced by a musicologist, who familiarizes the audience with the artist, music and instruments to be played.
Dance St. Louis
Dance St. Louis is dedicated to enhancing the cultural well being of greater St. Louis by creating and perpetuating interest, awareness and appreciation of dance as a major art form through performances and educational outreach activities.
Dances of India
Dances of India presents classical and folk East Indian dance. In addition to the new performance works, instructional and cultural presentations are held in an effort to expose Metro St. Louis area audiences to the East Indian artistic traditions.
Florissant Fine Arts Council
The Florissant Fine Arts Council, now in its 20th season, presents high quality professional touring theatre productions along with dance and cross-cultural music programs at a price affordable to all.
Gateway Festival Orchestra
The 50 piece Gateway Festival Orchestra performs four free out-of-doors concerts in the beautiful Washington University Quadrangle on Sunday evenings in July, and nine chamber music performances for inner-city youth featuring pre- and post-performance lectures which provide a greater understanding of the music performed.
Gitana Productions
Gitana Productions brings communities together through multicultural perfromances. This year's original work Complicity of Silence: Voices from Darfur is based on interviews with Sudanese refugees. It tells the story of this contemporary tragedy through music, dance and drama.
Grand Center Inc. - First Night
First Night® is a non-alcoholic New Year’s Eve celebration in Grand Center which is focused on children and families through the presentation of visual and performing arts.
Innsbrook Institute
The Innsbrook Institute Festival is an event facilitating opportunities for instruction and performance of classical music. The music school brings young musicians together with national level instructors for an intensive eight day school. The festival presents twenty concerts of the highest caliber featuring St. Louis Symphony and national artists.
International Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis
Held each August in Tower Grove Park, the Festival of Nations is the region's most diverse multi-cultural event. Traditional arts are the heart of the event, including crafts, performances, dance instruction and children's activities representing over 70 cultures from around the globe.
Jazz St. Louis
Dedicated to bringing St. Louis back to the forefront of mainstream jazz with a world class jazz club and a comprehensive program of education and community outreach, Jazz St. Louis takes professional jazz musicians into local schools for workshops and assemblies, complete with question and answer sessions and one-on-one time with students.
Jewish Community Center
The Jewish Community Center’s New Jewish Theatre, currently beginning its 11th season, examines universal themes and issues through the lens of the Jewish experience. Producing and presenting plays with broad, community-wide appeal, the New Jewish Theatre helps to build bridges to multi-cultural education and tolerance.
Junior League of St. Louis
The Family Theatre Series offers five productions of children’s theatre classics at the Florissant Community Center, as well as hosting pre-performance classroom discussions at local schools.
Laumeier Sculpture Park
The 96-acre park in Sunset Hills provides lectures, tours and programs to enrich lives and encourage creative thinking through exhibitions, education programs, summer camps and contemporary art.
Lewis & Clark Community College
The original First Night River Bend was held December 31st, 1995 and has been held every year since on the campus of Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois. The event focuses on building community through joyous celebration of the arts, and has grown more popular each year.
Madison County Arts Council
ART EAST is an annual event dedicated to showcasing nearly 200 artists who live and work in Madison County, Illinois. In its 9th year it takes place on 2 consecutive weekends in October.
Masterworks Chorale
The Masterworks Chorale and Children’s Chorus will present three major performances in the spring of 2007; the season culminates in the collaborative production “Give My Regards to Broadway”, a pops concert featuring members of both groups. Performances are on May 5th and 6th in the new auditorium at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois.
Metro South Arts Council
The Arts Enrichment and After-School Music Program provides affordable after-school and evening instruction music and the visual arts to students in private and public schools in the Metro South Arts Council’s service area. The programs take place in both fall and spring, and scholarships are awarded to socio-economically disadvantaged students.
Metro Theater Company
The Metro Theater Company is a professional touring ensemble that commissions, develops, produces and refines original theater pieces that blend music, movement, drama and design through classroom workshops, master classes and lecture demonstrations.
Modern American Dance Company
Combining literature, dance, music and visual arts, "Books in Motion" is a new project that works with area schools to create a multi-disciplinary approach to learning. The project culminates in a student developed performance based on the selected piece of literature, and a performance by MADCO's professional dancers.
New Music Circle
Serving as an advocate for new and experimental music since 1959, New Music Circle presents eleven concerts this season, featuring 25 locally and internationally renowned artists and composers.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
An internationally acclaimed company, OTSL presents a four-production season on the campus of Webster University in the Loretto-Hilton Center. All operas are sung in English and accompanied by members of The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Educational and outreach programs serve more than 20,000 young people and adults across the St. Louis area.
Piwacket Theatre for Children
Piwacket Theatre for Children presents two shows each season. The productions tour area schools and community venues, as well as being performed at the Black Cat Theatre, Piwacket Theatre’s new home in Maplewood.
Prison Performing Arts
Prison Performing Arts’ Hip-Hop Poetry Workshop will serve the at-risk youth detained at the St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center. The workshop provides an outlet for creativity and self-expression for youth who have little access to the arts, helping them find their voices, encouraging them to take responsibility for their learning, and creating a dialogue between the youth and their families, teachers, and correctional staff.
Professional Theatre Awards Council
Continuing its mission to promote and celebrate excellence in local professional theatre, PTAC presents the 3rd Annual Kevin Kline Awards in March of 2008. The Awards honor directors, designers, actors and more from dozens of theatres around St. Louis.
Quartet Seraphin
The “Meet the Composer” series includes performances of three originally produced musical productions based on the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, and Hayden. These musical biographies will include insight into each composer’s life and times with period costumes, following their struggles and the creation of their greatest and most personal works.
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Each season, the Rep presents over a dozen productions of live, professional theatre in Mainstage Studio and Off-Ramo productions. The Imaginary Theatre Company brings educational performances and community outreach programs to 50,000 students through schools and community centers in Missouri and Illinois.
River Styx
Big River Association publishes St. Louis’ oldest literary magazine, River Styx. The three yearly issues highlight local and national poets, writers, and visual artists. The multicultural publication also hosts a lively local reading series and adult and youth educational outreach programs.
Saint Louis Ballet
Saint Louis Ballet provides metropolitan St. Louis with a resident professional ballet company that draws major choreographers and top young dancers from across the country and beyond. Saint Louis Ballet also hosts educational and community outreach programs for the area.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
The orchestra brings the finest orchestral music to citizens of metropolitan St. Louis through a variety of pro-gramming with nearly 100 orchestral, holiday, educational, and special event concerts at Powell Symphony Hall.
Saint Louis Wind Symphony
In addition to performances throughout the year at outdoor festivals, music conventions and shared concerts, the Wind Symphony presents a four conert series featuring a variety of new and traditional wind selections. Performances are held at the Keating CenterTtheatre on the campus of Kirkwood High School.
Shakespeare Festival
Presents a festival in Forest Park and reaches more than 9,000 students with performance-oriented instruction in the works of Shakespeare, the Shakespeare Festival conducts teacher-training seminars and performances throughout the St. Louis schools.
Sheldon Arts Foundation
The Sheldon Arts Foundation presents the best in jazz, folk, classical and family concerts; it is also deeply committed to the education of young people. The Sheldon Art Galleries present world-class exhibits as well as educational programs for adults and children. More than 300 events take place each year, serving more than 100,000 people throughout the St. Louis region.
Show-Me Sound Organization
F.O.C.U.S. DRUMLINE and Percussive Arts Education Program provide instruction in music reading and marching percussion performance skills to the youth of the St. Vincent Home for Children and to middle school youth from St. Louis City and County. The DRUMLINE performs in a number of parades and festivals throughout the year.
Spotlight Theatre
Spotlight T.E.E.N. presents issue-oriented theatre for middle and high school students. In 2008, Spotlight will train incarcerated youth in acting, movement and voice and conduct interviews wit hthe youth regarding the events which led to their incarceration.
Springboard to Learning & Young Audiences of St. Louis
A series of ten semester-long, in-school arts programs, taught by professional artists and serving more than 1250 underserved children. All programs are hands-on to allow the children to create and develop their own body of work as they learn. Topics include visual arts, folk dance, ethnic music, drama, and creative writing.
St. Louis African Chorus
The continuing African Choral Odyssey Series provides a mosaic of choral music from diverse regions of Africa and music by composers of African descent. The African Music for Community Healing and The African Choral Workshop bring outreach and educational programs to the metropolitan area.
St. Louis ArtWorks
A unique, arts-based employment program that gives 14 to 21 year olds from the St. Louis metro area the opportunity to develop artistically by providing a paying apprenticeship in one of eight artistic disciplines at professional venues including Saint Louis Art Museum, Craft Alliance, and Contemporary Art Museum.
St. Louis Chamber Chorus
The St. Louis Chamber Chorus presents new a cappella works by composers in the United States and abroad.this season includes the world premiere of "The Fount of Love", by composer Howard Helvey.
St. Louis Children's Choirs
Provide children with a choral music experience emphasizing musical excellence and character education. Children who audition successfully are assigned to one of 7 choir levels which perform 3 to 25 times a season depending on their skill level.
St. Louis Classical Guitar Society
The Great Artists Series features four concerts performances and master classes hosted by internationally renowned musicians from China, France, Spain and the U.S. Concerts are held at the Ethical Society and at St. Louis area public schools.
St. Louis County Community Chorus
Four concerts held in April and November showcase the Chorus’ dedication to fostering community and fellowship through practice and performance of choral music. Performances are held at the Lutheran Church of Webster Gardens and Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church.
St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra
This season’s series includes five formal concerts at Webster University’s Music School, along with their annual holiday pops concert. The summer pops concerts will be held at Queeny Park. All concerts are free to the public.
St. Louis Public Schools Foundation
St. Louis Public Schools Performing Arts Night showcases over 900 St. Louis City school students on stage at the Fox Theatre and celebrates and congratulates the crucial role of music educators in every school district.
St. Louis Shakespeare
St. Louis Shakespeare presents three Shakespeare plays and one classic play between July and March of each year. Since 1995, the Company's home has been the beautifully restored Grandel Theater.
St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts
VLAA provides affordable training programs for small and mid-size nonprofit arts organizations. VLAA will also offer Brown Bag Financial Seminars, a series of basic training seminars for fledgling organizations in the new Centene Center for Arts and Education.
St. Louis Women's Chorale
The St. Louis Women' Chorale, founded in 1995, recognizes there is a special beauty in hearing women's voices. The Women's Chorale is a community of women dedicated to performing music by, for and about women.
STAGES ST. LOUIS
Since 1987, Stages St. Louis has produced the indigenous American art form of musical theatre. It is the largest theatrical employer of local actors in St. Louis. Stages also offers year-round workshops and programming to schools under their new Urban Arts Initiative.
That Uppity Theatre Company
That UPPITY Theatre Company has developed and brought some of the finest in contemporary performance to St. Louis. The DisAbility Project brings the stories of actors with and without disabilities to audiences all across the region.
The Black Rep
The Black Rep is the largest African American performing arts organization in Missouri and one of less than a dozen surviving African American companies. Productions are presented in the Grandel Theatre. The company is committed to education and community programs, The Black Rep presents touring shows, student matinees, workshops and summer theatre camps.
The Joy Foundation
Jazz for Joy, Jr. is a concert series combining live jazz performances and creative activities for young cancer patients. The program brings hope and joy to families impacted by cancer, using the arts as a powerful tool for healing.
UMSL KWMU – FM Cityscape
This weekly program informs and educates KWMU – FM 90.7 listeners about the artistic and cultural topics that impact the St. Louis community.
UMSL Public Policy Research Photography Project
The PPRC Gallery mission is to provide photographic training and exhibition opportunities to individuals in St. Louis volunteer community groups and to strengthen our community by drawing attention to the impact community groups can have on the quality of life in St. Louis.
UMSL Storytelling Festival
The Annual Story Telling Festival is held in May each year. The festival includes seven featured and sixty regional storytellers practicing and preserving the oldest form of communication for thousands of students and adults.
Union Avenue Opera Theatre
Now in its 12th season, Union Avenue Opera Theatre presents four operas in their original languages. Performed this year are Mozart’s Il Nozze di Figaro, Bellini’s Norm, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and Britten’s Turn of the Screw.
University City Symphony Orchestra
The University City Symphony Orchestra presents seven performances each season, including a Young Artists Competition. Performances are held at the Center of Creative Arts and various other University City and St. Louis locations.
Upstream Theater
Upstream Theatre presents an original show, SOUL ON SALE/ALMA EN VENTA, this spring. The performances will include student showings, featuring post-show discussions with students and teachers.
Venus Envy
This annual arts event celebrates women and their creataive contributions to society. Held each spring to coincide with Women's History Month, the event attract thousands of St. Louis residents, male and female alike. Venus Envy's visual, performance, craft and culinary works are all created and selected by women throughout the nation's arts community.
Viva Vox
The IMAGINE Arts Mentoring Program is a year long, after-school program for underserved youth. The sturctured, goal-oriented program builds confidence, discipline and artistic excellence while introducing the students to the possibilities of a career in the arts.
Warren County Fine Arts Council
"Arts In Schools” is a project designed to expose over 4500 students in two school districts and 3 parochial schools to all disciplines of art through music and theatrical assemblies, master classes an a summer fine arts program.
Washington University - Edison Theatre
The 2007-2008 Edison Series includes OVATIONS!, focusing on exploring comtemporary and international cultural influences. OVATIONS! is a family-friendly event for young people.
Washington University - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is presenting Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, an international exhibition of contemporary art accompanied by a major publication and a range of public programs.
Webster University - Film Series
Now in its 27th year of continuous operation, the Film Series has become the location for many national tours of international cinema, often acting as the only venue in MO. This season’s year round screenings include week-end children’s matinees, filmmaker workshops, international films, outdoor screenings of classic films and more.
