2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ALASKA

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Cultural Crossroads Series of dance and music. The series will feature public and in school performances, gatherings with local artists, pre- and post-concert talks, and radio broadcasts.

CrossSound, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support RainSongs: 3 antiphonous tales from wet lands, a touring festival of newly commissioned work. Three teams of international composers and writers will create collaborative works using Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf as points of departure.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of The Cannery Project, a new musical by Chay Yew, and the statewide tour of Bridget Carpenter's Up (The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair). Artistic director Peter DuBois will direct both plays and oversee The Cannery Project's collaboration between the playwright and composer Fabian Obispo.

Alaska Total Dollars Awarded: $60,000
Alaska Total Grants Awarded: 3

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