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2005 ARTS & HUMANITIES
FUND ALLOCATIONS
Twenty Bainbridge Island cultural organizations, artists and scholars
are receiving allocations from the 2005 City of Bainbridge Island
Arts and Humanities Fund, administered by the Bainbridge Island
Arts and Humanities Council.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY $1500
Bainbridge Island Oral History Project -
For personnel and equipment to conduct, record, and transcribe ten
oral histories of Island residents.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
JAPANESE
AMERICAN
COMMUNITY $2500
Nidoto Nai Yoni Oral History Project
- To collect and record on digital video the oral histories of B.I.
Japanese Americans evacuated and incarcerated during WW II, for
viewing at the new Pritchard Park Memorial. Photographer Joel Sackett
will create 4 -20 photo portraits.
HELPLINE HOUSE
$950
Empty Bowls Project - In support of a project
that addresses the issue of hunger. Professional artists work with
300 local students to make ceramic bowls and serve a simple meal,
for which guests donate to the food bank.
ISLANDWOOD
$1000
The Community Sense of Place Poetry Series
- Three free poetry writing and reading events in different locations,
in which Island residents write about their relationship to Bainbridge
Island.
SCIENCE FICTION
WRITING COOPERATIVE
(Tamara
Kaye Sellman) $2000
Off the Ecliptic II: Further
Stories of Imagination
To produce and publish a second anthology
of competitively selected “speculative fiction” by Bainbridge
writers. $2000
FIELD’S
END, A WRITERS’ COMMUNITY
(Bainbridge
Public Library) $1000
Writers’ Roundtable at Field’s
End - To continue the presentation of twelve free monthly Writers’
Roundtable forums at the Public Library, in which participants discuss
writing with guest authors to improve their skills.
BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING
ARTS $2200
BPA Playwrights’ Festival - To support
the production of two jury-selected one-act plays by Jeff Fraga
and Sara Anne Scribner, presented April 7-9 at BPA. The Playwrights’
Festival follows a Field’s End playwriting workshop conducted
last fall to encourage new and original work.
OVATION! MUSICAL
THEATRE BAINBRIDGE $1800
The Music Man - In support of Ovation!’s
production of Meredith Willson’s musical, The Music Man, at
the Bainbridge High School LGI July 15-31.
ISLAND THEATRE
$1650
Island Theatre Play Readings - To produce
and present six free play readings at the Bainbridge Public Library
and six free potluck play readings in private homes.
WEST SOUND CONTRADANCE
COALITION $1500
Bainbridge Island Contra Dances - To present
a series of nine American folk contradances on Bainbridge Island
with live music and a caller.
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THIS
IS NOW PRODUCTIONS $750
This Is Now - Production. A collaborative
performance of dance, visual arts, live voice, and acting to raise
awareness of topics affecting youth. March 24-26 at The Playhouse.
LUCY OSTRANDER
$2200
Island Roots: Filipino Americans on Bainbridge
Island - For research and development of the third in a quartet
of cultural history documentary films that explore how different
cultures relate to and connect with the land and environment of
Bainbridge Island.
WENDY JACKSON
HALL & KATHE FRAGA $1500
Puppets on Parade - In support of a community
puppet-making art experience (with a water wildlife theme),
June 21-July 4, with a performance experience at the 4th of July
parade.
KORUM BISCHOFF
$1000
Visual Documentation of Bainbridge Island
Music Community through Rock Posters. A visual documen-tation (posters)
of 15-20 musicians and presenters from the Bainbridge music community,
exhibited at Pegasus Coffee House in February, 2006.
PATTY ROGERS &
JOHN WILLSON $1411
Bookmarking, A Pairing of
the Verbal and Visual -
To produce 7500 bookmarks that pair four
mixed-media paintings by Rogers with four poems by Willson, to be
given away at the February 2006 Arts Walk. Posters of the four collaborative
poem/images will be created for display and two sets of the limited
edition posters will be donated to local auctions benefiting the
arts and humanities.
ISLAND SOUNDSCAPE
PLAYERS $2225
Soundscapes and Earth Tones—A Chamber
Music Series - In support of three professional quality chamber
music concerts based on music from around the world (Americas, Pacific
Rim, Europe), November 2005, Feb 2006, May 2006, at Grace Episcopal
Church.
BARBARA HUME
$577
Barbara Hume in Concert - In support of a
concert with Barbara Hume (vocalist) and David Mesler (composer/pianist)
performing jazz/classical treatments of songs based on poetry by
cummings, Frost, Dickinson, Auden, Sandburg, Whitman, presented
April 8 at the Bainbridge Commons.
BAINBRIDGE CHORALE
$1500
The Messiah - Two 2-hour performances of
Handel’s Messiah by the Bainbridge Chorale, presented in December,
with full chorus, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and four soloists,
at a Bainbridge venue.
ISLAND MUSIC GUILD
$2350
Teen Band Concert Series - In support of
twelve monthly concerts featuring Island teen musicians and bands
at the new Island Music Guild Hall, coordinated and run by Island
teens with support from IMG.
ALLEN STRANGE
$987
With a Little Help from My Friends—A
Concert of Music by Allen Strange - A free concert presenting the
contemporary, computer-based music of composer Allen Strange, this
fall, at Island Music Guild, and aired on BIB.
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