THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, September 10, 1995 TAG: 9509090157
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 18 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Cover Story
SOURCE: Mary Reid Barrow
LENGTH: Short : 38 lines
Arts groups like the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach are getting their ducks in a row to prepare applications, due Oct. 13, for grants from the Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission.
This year, the city commission has a budget of $215,238 to be divvied up among deserving nonprofit, tax-exempt arts or humanities groups. Funding should be requested for projects and performances that will occur between July 1, 1996 and June 30, 1997.
For more than two decades, the city's Arts and Humanities Commission has been providing funding to both Virginia Beach and regional arts groups that provide programming in the city. For example half the commission's budget last year funded Norfolk groups such as the Virginia Symphony, which brought their performances to Virginia Beach audiences.
Last year, the commission presented grants totaling $212,900 to 24 organizations that ran the gamut from the symphony to the small Virginia Beach Chorale.
In addition to the $10,000 granted last year to the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach, the commission gave as much as $40,000 to the Virginia Beach Center for the Arts and as little as $1,000 to the Norfolk-based Natchel Blues Network, which will be presenting a blues festival here in October. Almost 98,000 students and 123,000 members of the general public attended 394 programs and performances funded by the Arts and Humanities Commission.
To get a copy of a grant application or to find out more, contact Glenn Payne, projects coordinator for the city's Department of Museums, at 431-3733. by CNB