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Back to Article List Culture and Heritage Commission Awards Arts Regrants Release Date: November 30, 2009 Cape May Court House – Thirteen local non-profit groups have received 2010 arts regrants totaling $47,500 from the County’s Culture and Heritage Commission. The 2010 recipients are:       • Access to Art $8,000 to present  a Renaissance Faire/Festival at the Delaware river and            Bay Authority with a Renaissance band, Renaissance dance, Shakespeare vignettes (with          student participation)      • The Avalon Performing Arts Council will use $4,000 to present various events, including          the 28th annual art show and sale      • Cape Shore Chorus Sweet Adelines International $3,000 for their annual musical          production on October 9, 2010      • The Friends of the Ocean City Pops, $7,500 for internationally known violinist Sarah         Chang, in concert with the Ocean City Pops Orchestra July 15 at the Ocean City Music Pier      • The Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, $500, to offer “Discover the Arts”          program to help girls discover art, music, literature, theater and dance      • Historic Cold Spring Village $3,000 to present live cultural entertainment at their Village          Folk Festival to be held the weekend of  July 24 and 25, 2010      • John Walter Cape Community Band, $500 for new music scores and to produce a live         concert CD for distribution      • Lower Township, $2,000 to conduct an eight-week summer arts program with the Center          for Community Arts; the free program will be available five days a week to children in          grades 5 through 8      • The Masterworks Choir, $2,000 to present Handel’s “Messiah” to be performed in          conjunction with the Choir’s 40th anniversary celebration.  The concert will be presented          in July, 2010      • Nature Center of Cape May, $2,500 to present the program, “Nature Through the Arts”,         a two-part program reaching out to children and their families      • Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum $6,000 to research, create and produce an          exhibit, “Aviation Art” which will present aviation art through the mediums of prints,          paintings and photography      • Ocean City’s Arts Center $3,500 for instruction in visual arts, dance, and the performing          arts      • Ocean City’s Fine Arts League $5,000 to present a variety of exhibitions, performances,          events, educational activities and outreach programs  The balance of the grant will be used for technical assistance workshops for local non-profit groups $1,908; 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 promotes public interest and participation in local, county, and state history, as well as in the cultural traditions of the community, and supports the development of the County’s arts and history organizations.  The Division office is located in the Beesley House, 605 Route 9 North, Cape May Court House.  The building is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.  Business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  For more information about Cape May County’s arts, history and cultural groups, visit cmcculture.org or call 463-6370.  Free brochures about some of the local groups are available at the Division office.

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