6 OC Organizations Win First Round 2009 NEA Grants

Arts Orange County extends its congratulations to the six Orange County organizations tapped to receive grants totaling $132,500 from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009 first round awards

Below is a list of OC grantees. Click here for the complete NEA media release: http://www.arts.gov/news/news08/Announce12-08.html

Hi Hopes Identity Discovery Foundation (aka Hope University)
$10,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Beau Monde Float, a multimedia performance collaboration between artist collective MLuM and adults with developmental disabilities affiliated with the foundation. The piece will be developed through a series of workshops with topics including music composition, design, and dance.

Hutchins Consort
Corona del Mar, CA $7,500 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts for violin octet with educational activities, including an open dress rehearsal, master classes, and lecture demonstrations. The program will feature performances on the eight scaled violins of the violin octet designed and built by luthier Dr. Carleen Hutchins.

Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co.
Irvine, CA $20,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the eighth annual New World Flamenco Festival at The Barclay. Presentations will feature flamenco dancers and musicians, and activities will include workshops, meet-the-artist events, and film screenings.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA $10,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support Fanfare for a New Era, a performance project celebrating the inaugural year of the new C. B. Fisk organ in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. The chorus will be joined by French composer and organist Thierry Escaich in an American premiere performance of his Three Motets

Pacific Symphony
Santa Ana, CA $45,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support Hollywood's Golden Age, an American composers festival. Programming will feature music by composers Erich Korngold, Miklos Rozsa, and Bernard Herrmann, as well as the premiere of a commissioned work by James Newton Howard.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA $40,000 CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a workshop and world premiere of You, Nero, a new comedy developed by award-winning playwright Amy Freed. Sharon Ott will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.