The 2018 Grantees were awarded at the FAB!
Annual Meeting & Grants Awards Presentation on May 4, 2017.
Music Grantee Organizations
Brazilian Voices Inc.
From Brazil to the World
$5,000
Two different shows, one custom tailored for students 5-17 in the University School lower and high schools, and the other for the general public, will combine live performance with artistic media projection to explore Brazil’s multicultural society and current developments, including in ecology and sustainability.
Old Dillard Foundation
2018 Cannonball Jazz Series
$6,000
The Cannonball Jazz Series is an annual event that honors the legacy of a former Broward County Public Schools music teacher who became an internationally known musician and band leader. The concert series will include performances by students, as well as regional and national artists promoting jazz as American classic music style.
Broward Performing Arts Foundation
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell
$12,000
The Broward Performing Arts Foundation presents violin superstar Joshua Bell with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields as a part of the 2017-2018 Classical Series at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble
2018 Youth Pride Band of South Florida
$5,000
This program gives students, particularly LGBTQ students, the chance to not be in the minority and to play next to members of the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble who are living proof that it really does get better.
Girl Choir of South Florida
Girl Choir of South Florida presents “Passages”
$5,000
A special arrangement of “Spring” by George Clinton in the sacred harp tradition will be featured, as well as a setting of three children’s songs by R. Vaughan Williams and 17th century madrigals such as “Come, Let’s Be Merry.”
Master Chorale of South Florida
Broadway Legends II
$8,000
The musical theater concert series will include a potpourri of popular selections from Broadway’s most prominent musical and will serve as a musically accessible concert series for audience members not regularly in attendance at classical music events.
Seraphic Fire
Broward County Programs January – May 2018
$10,000
Seraphic Fire will present five concerts of choral or choral/orchestral works in Broward County. Programming will includes: Lang: Match Girl Passion, Bach St. Matthew Passion, East Meets West, Arvo Pärt’s Passio and Shakespeare in Love.
Symphony of the Americas
International Guest Artist Series
$5,000
This 8-concert series features international guest artists for a Broward residency of public and educational performances, including select matinees and Summerfest.
Gold Coast Jazz Society
2018 Jazz Project
$7,000
Artists for this project will include Willie Jones III and Friends featuring Robin Eubanks and Terell Stafford, The Loston Harris Trio and The Four Freshmen. This project will also include one free jazz outreach concert for the community featuring members of the Gold Coast Jazz Society Band.
Florida Grand Opera
Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck
$12,000
Nymphs and shepherds celebrate the funeral rites of Euridice, assisted by Orpheus, who laments her loss and reproaches the gods with cruelty.
Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida
Season 8 Concert Cycle & Programs
$5,000
Season eight’s concerts and programs strive to build upon our goals to transform community and school environments in ways that promote and encourage love and inclusion.
Florida Singing Sons
Society of Men: The Original Boy Bands
$5,000
The fraternal spirit that is formed when men make music together is a tradition that has existed for millennia: Sacred chants sung by Benedictine Monks, the beginnings of European polyphony, American Gospel & Bluegrass bands and Army / Navy choruses.
All Florida Youth Orchestra
Family Spotlight Concert – Faith in Music
$7,500
With over 200 of the county’s most gifted young musicians, the program showcases sacred pieces representing Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist religions.
South Florida Symphony Orchestra
The South Florida Symphony Orchestra Presents “Mystical Flight” with Martha Graham Dance Company
$10,000
This world premiere ballet performance is of epic import in that it adds a new masterwork to the modern ballet repertoire, a feat that is rarely accomplished due to the great investment of time and funding.
Dance Grantee Organizations
Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida
Tribute to Marius Petipa
$6,500
With the recent addition of principal ballerina Mary Carmen Catoya and the strong development of returning principal and lead male and female dancers, the Professional Company of Arts Ballet Theatre has the technical skill and artistry to mount a fitting tribute in honor of the 200th anniversary of Marius Petipa’s birth.
Ashanti Cultural Arts and Enrichment
The Christmas Chocolate Nutcracker
$7,500
Ashanti Cultural Arts will present its adaptation of George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” with African dancers and drummers as well as Indian, Chinese, classical, carnival stilt walkers, modern dancers, ballet and more.
Miami City Ballet
World Premiere Commission by Brian Brooks
$12,500
One of the first projects to emerge from Brian Brooks’ post as the Harris Theater for Music and Dance’s first-ever resident choreographer will be a world premiere work for Miami City Ballet (MCB).
Theatre Grantee Organizations
Island City Stage
Zanna, Don’t!
$5,000
Subtitled “A Musical Fairy Tale,” it is a musical written by Tim Acito with additional lyrics and material by Alexander Dinelaris. The story is set in a parallel universe where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is a taboo.
Florida Children’s Theatre
FLCT Spring Season 2018
$9,000
FLCT will produce two full-scale theatrical productions including one show featuring our Teen Repertory Company and one Family Series production featuring performers ages 6-18. Titles will be announced June 2, 2017 at FLCT’s annual Theatrefest celebration.
Fantasy Theatre Factory
ACCESS (Arts & Culture for Community Engagement & Special Students
$7,500
Fantasy Theatre Factory’s ACCESS Program provides 35 unique theatre performances for under-served family audiences in 25 community venues (libraries, theatres, community-centers, etc.) throughout Broward County.
Slow Burn Theatre Company
Slow Burn Theatre presents David Ryan’s “Memphis, the Musical”
$8,000
From the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, comes a hot new Broadway musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love.
City Theatre
Shorts Gone Wild 6
$5,000
Shorts Gone Wild is a groundbreaking, award-winning program of short plays relevant to the LGBT community. This sixth iteration will continue to feature scripts with various LGBT oriented subject matter written primarily by local playwrights, directors, designers and artists.
ArtServe
Teen ARTrepreneurs Short Play Festival
$5,000
The festival showcases the creative work of teens interested in pursuing careers in the arts, while also providing them with the business skills they need to succeed professionally in this arena.
Visual Arts Grantee Organizations
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
Magnus Sodamin: Calm Before the Sun
$7,500
“Magnus Sodamin: Calm Before the Sun” (working title) is an installation of vibrant, colorful paintings that blur the frontier between abstraction and landscape art. The project features a reception and gallery talk that explores the evolution of the artist’s dynamic painting style.
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
Cuban Art from the Permanent Collection
$9,000
This exhibition is the first to combine the museum’s extensive modern Cuban art collection and its large contemporary Cuban art collection, as well as works from the Miami and 80s generations.
Young at Art Museum
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Art of Animation
$5,000
Through animatronic sculptures, paintings, original animation and a gallery of classic images representing the heyday of Saturday morning television, adults and children will journey back in time to a world of imagination and suspended belief.
