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Daniel E. Offutt III ACE Awards Breakfast

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June 21st  | Norwalk Shore & Country Club
Celebrate Awardees, Arts, & Culture
Tickets On Sale Now

 

The ACE Awards celebrate the community impact, quality, and diversity of arts and culture across Coastal Fairfield County. This year, we highlight the significant role that artists and arts and cultural organizations play in connecting communities across government, businesses, nonprofit agencies, educational institutions and municipalities. Come join us to celebrate: buy tickets at https://bit.ly/CAFCace2023

The following awardees have made significant contributions to their communities and illustrate how the arts serve as a bridge across all other community stakeholders in Fairfield County:

In order of portraits below:

President’s Award: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Corporate Award: David Genovese (Baywater Properties)
Artist Award: Cris Dam Educator Award: Jenny Nelson (Westport Country Playhouse)
Citizen Award: Vic Mulaire (The NEST) Nonprofit Award: Fairfield Museum and History Center (Michael Jehle)

For more information see: https://culturalalliancefc.org/ace-awards

Thank you to our sponsors to date:

 

Spotlight on Arts & Culture: The Arts and Preservation

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The arts we know bring renewed vitality, energy, engagement and economic stimulus to our communities. The arts especially can breathe new life into old buildings when they are smartly and sensitively restored.

In today’s live “Spotlight” we look at the journey that two groups took in finding the right space for their arts organization, how they redeveloped the buildings they found, and what the impact has been. The Norwalk Art Space opened in June 2021 and greeted 14,000 visitors in its first year. Metro Art Studios in Bridgeport opened in November 2021. Both buildings won Awards of Merit from PreservationCT in 2022. In addition, we look at a building that is currently being restored and renovated for use as an art space: The Granite Church in Georgetown.

Our guests are:
• Jane Davila, Executive Director, Metro Art Studios, Bridgeport
• Robin Panovka, The Norwalk Art Space
• Richard Wenning, Executive Director, Be Foundation, Co-founder at SpreadMusicNow & Granite Church
• Christopher Wigren, Deputy Director, Preservation Connecticut

Tune in Monday May 8 at noon on wpkn.org or 89.5FM to learn about the power of the arts to bring new life to old buildings and their communities.

Daniel E. Offutt III ACE Awards Breakfast

Posted on by cafcadmin

June 21st  | Norwalk Shore & Country Club
Celebrate Awardees, Arts, & Culture
Tickets On Sale Now

The ACE Awards celebrate the community impact, quality, and diversity of arts and culture across Coastal Fairfield County. This year, we highlight the significant role that artists and arts and cultural organizations play in connecting communities across government, businesses, nonprofit agencies, educational institutions and municipalities. Come join us to celebrate: buy tickets at https://bit.ly/CAFCace2023

The following awardees have made significant contributions to their communities and illustrate how the arts serve as a bridge across all other community stakeholders in Fairfield County:

In order of portraits below:

President’s Award: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Corporate Award: David Genovese (Baywater Properties)
Artist Award: Cris Dam Educator Award: Jenny Nelson (Westport Country Playhouse)
Citizen Award: Vic Mulaire (The NEST) Nonprofit Award: Fairfield Museum and History Center (Michael Jehle)

For more information see: https://culturalalliancefc.org/ace-awards

Thank you to our sponsors to date:

 

Spotlight on Arts & Culture: The Arts and Healing

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If you missed our April Spotlight on Arts & Culture on “The Arts and Healing,” you can hear it now on a podcast on Soundcloud:

On the show, we examined the power of creative expression as a means of coping, healing, and restoration. How can the arts can be a bridge to mindfulness, reflection and transformation, particularly in the context of the current state of our world?

Our guests were Dianne Niklaus, a Creative Wellness Coach; Darcy Hicks, visual artist and Director of Education at The Norwalk Art Space; Felicity Kostakis, artist and art teacher; Tatiana Mori, Director of the Greenwich Arts Council; and Patricia Spugani, Community Outreach & Lighting Designer at Town Players of New Canaan which recently produced Ordinary People to contribute to the conversation around mental health.

Go now to: https://bit.ly/spotArtsandHealing

 

Sign Up for our Funding Booster Program: Next Session Wed. April 12.

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The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County’s Funding Booster program is free and open to all members. The program is designed to help all grant writers, from beginners to seasoned veterans, learn new skills, and burnish old ones, in order to be as successful as possible in all their grant writing ambitions.

If you haven’t registered for the program, register here.

If you have registered for the program then you can register for our next meeting on Zoom here. Development consultant Jessica Morozowich will answer your questions and tackle any grant writing issues you currently have.  You can also book one-on-one consultations with her. Find out more at: https://culturalalliancefc.org/programs/funding-booster/

Podcast now available of “Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

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Hear our CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY interview show on WPKN as a PODCAST now at https://bit.ly/SpotIndigenous. Discover the histories and living cultures of native tribes in our area. What traditions, stories and practices are still alive? What can we learn from native cultures’ sense of time and of the land? Hear about the work of the Institute for Native American Studies, and about the specific cultural practices of the Schaghticoke and Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nations.

Our guests were:
Darlene Kascak, a member of the Schaghticoke Nation, and a Storyteller and Educator at the Institute for American Indian Studies, in Washington, CT

Shoran Waupatukuay Piper, Clan Mother and Tribal Leader, of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nation, and author of the recent book, Red Road

Chelsea Garth, Curator at Fairfield Museum & History Center, and

Janet Evelyn, executive director of Norwalk NICE (Norwalk International Cultural Exchange) Festival and the newly appointed Coastal Fairfield County Folk & Traditional Arts Community Impact Coordinator.

Catch this latest edition of “Spotlight on Arts & Culture” as a podcast here.

Register for Zoom Info Session WEDNESDAY on CT Cultural Relief Fund Grant: Wed. Oct 13, 11am

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RECORDATORIO para REGISTRARSE AQUÍ para la sesión informativa, miércoles. 13 de octubre, 11 a. m. , sobre las  subvenciones del Fondo Cultural de CT , copatrocinado por la Alianza Cultural del Condado de Fairfield y la Alianza Cultural del Oeste de Connecticut, con Scott Wands de CT Humanities explicando la subvención y respondiendo a sus preguntas.