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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, May 6, 2008

NEA grants $1M to 8 local arts groups

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

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Friends of 'Iolani Palace will get $15,000 for new state-of-the-art equipment to preserve 1,000 objects.

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Eight Hawai'i arts organizations — theaters, an orchestra, museums and groups presenting education programs — have been awarded 13 National Endowment for the Arts grants totaling $1,069,200 to carry on their missions.

The awards are part of more than $77 million handed out to 1,014 recipients across the country, with the largest Hawai'i grant, $713,000, going to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Three organizations — Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center, Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education — earned multiple grants.

The Hawai'i recipients:

  • Friends of 'Iolani Palace, $15,000, to support installation of storage equipment to re-house textiles, paintings, prints and photographs in the permanent collection, and new state-of-the-art equipment to preserve 1,000 objects.

  • Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education, $20,000, for a series of arts events engaging the local community. The events will include community-based arts projects, exhibitions and performances.

  • Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education, $45,000, to support Arts First, in partnership with the state Department of Education, with teacher and artist collaboration, to deliver arts lessons using the Arts First Toolkit, a kindergarten to fifth-grade, arts-integration curriculum framework.

  • Hawaii Youth Symphony Association, $32,000, to support the Symphonic Orchestra Program. Orchestra students from the Hawaiian Islands are brought to Honolulu to rehearse and subsequently perform in one of three youth orchestras.

  • Hawaii's Volcano Circus, $10,000, to support the Puna Performing Arts Festival and outreach activities, including a series of workshops in circus arts, music, drama and dance targeting area youth, culminating in public performances.

  • Honolulu Theatre for Youth, $15,000, to support the production and tour of "Aladdin's Luck" by Janet Stanford and Fahir Atakoglu; the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools will be involved in the production at Tenney Theatre and in tours of O'ahu schools, and upper and lower elementary schools statewide.

  • Honolulu Theatre for Youth, $18,000, to support the YouthArts Downtown: Afterschool! theater arts education program, where students will study drama with theater artists, attend professional productions and create original works.

  • Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc., $5,000, to support the Kalihi-Palama Folk Arts Training Program and provide instruction in music, dance and crafts of the traditional Asian/Pacific cultures.

  • Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center, $45,000, to support a series of performances and related residency activities, plus professional development workshops for teachers, student performances, workshops and exhibitions.

  • Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center, $45,000, to support the Kulanihako'i project, a series of performances and residency activities by Hawaiian master artists Sonny Ching and Keali'i Reichel.

  • Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center, $40,000, to support "Telling Our Stories: The Past is Our Future," in partnership with the state Department of Education, including year-long classroom instruction in Hawaiian storytelling and the elements and principles of drama culminating in student performances.

  • Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, $65,900, to support partnership agreement activities.

  • State Foundation of Culture and the Arts, $713,000, in support of state and regional partnership programs.

    Reach Wayne Harada at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com.