FALMOUTH CULTURAL COUNCIL 2009 GRANT RECIPENTS Applicant Project Title Program Decision Bleakley, Ruth Bookbinding At the Falmouth Public Library Crafts $250 Buckley, Andrew Hit and Run History -- The Columbia Expedition episode 2 Media $400 Cantus Novus Spring Concert 2010 Music $375 Cape Cod Child Development/Hea... Music Together Music $700 Cape Cod Children's Museum It's Good to Be Green Multi $500 Cape Cod Museum of Art ARTWORK/Art Intern Program Visual $400 Cape Cod Opera Opera & You Theater $400 Cultural Center of Cape Cod ALL WRITE Lit $450 Falmouth Chorale Upper Cape Children's Chorus Music $600 International Folk Dancing for Families International Folk Dancing for Families Dance $500 Jameson, Scott The Magic of Communication Theater $500 Mastersingers by the Sea The Mysteries of Love, A Concert Music $625 Root, John Senior Citizen Musical Program Music $275 Solstice Singers Children's Choir Music $450 South Coast Historical Association Colonial Life in the 18th Century Story $475 The Marble Collection, Inc. The Marble Collection Lit $100 Total 16 Applicants $7,000 The Falmouth Cultural Council is part of a grass-roots network of 329 local councils that serve every city and town in the state. The program is the largest, most decentralized one of its kind in the United States. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which then allocates funds to each local council. Decisions about which activities to support are made at the community level by a board of municipally appointed volunteers. "It's the local volunteers who really make this system work," said Eric Turkington. "They make limited resources go as far as possible and they make the tough decisions about which projets should be supported. Thanks to them, the arts, sciences and humanities are part of people's everyday lives in every community across the state." Statewide, cultural council grants support an enormous range of grass-roots activities: concerts, exhibitions, radio and video productions, field trips for schoolchildren, after-school youth programs, writing workshops, historical preservation efforts, lectures, First Night celebrations, nature and science education programs for families and town festivals. Nearly half of LCC funds support educational activities for young people. This includes the PASS Program, which provides subsidies for school children to attend cultural field trips. The Falmouth Cultural Council will seek applications again in the fall. Information and forms are available at our website: www.arts-cape.org/falmouthcc/ and are due Oct. 15.

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