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Office for the Arts Grants Awarded to ARTS FIRST
Projects
Range of work includes art on environmental issues and show involving
puppets and remote-controlled cars
From an outdoor production of Shakespeare's The Tempest to readings
of undergraduate fiction and poetry, from a dance festival featuring a wide
range of Harvard-Radcliffe student dance groups to an improvised student
musical, Harvard and Radcliffe students are preparing a multitude of innovative
projects for the sixth annual Arts First festival with the help of
funding from the Office for the Arts.
The Harvard Council on the Arts has awarded 22 grants, representing more
than 70 percent of all applications, to student projects that have artistic
merit, originality, the involvement of a large number of undergraduates,
cultural diversity, and a high level of visibility. (The Council includes
chair Robert Kiely, S. Allen Counter, Arthur Loeb, Claire Mallardi, Myra
Mayman, Jeff Nichols and Marcus Stern.)
ARTS FIRST is a festival that celebrates Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates
and faculty in the arts and seeks to galvanize the Harvard-Radcliffe arts
community. This year it will be held from April 30 to May 3.
Call the OFA at 495-8699 for more information about ARTS FIRST.
Projects receiving funding are as follows:
DANCE
Arts First Dance Festival, Hyland Hunt '98: $1,025 for the production
of the fifth annual ARTS FIRST Dance Festival, which will include 20-minute
shows highlighting a variety of dance styles by 21 different Harvard-Radcliffe
student dance groups.
LITERARY
Asian American Coffeehouse, H-R Asian American Association and
Carolyn T. Nguyen '00: $150 in support of a forum for the presentation of
Asian-American students' creative work, including poetry, prose, and drawings,
in Loker Coffeehouse.
A Return to the Darkroom, The Darkroom Collective and Brandon
Walston '01: $100 for the revival of The Darkroom Collective,
a journal for writers and artists, particularly those dealing with issues
pertaining to people of color.
Undergraduate Poetry/Fiction Reading, The Harvard Advocate
and Brian Phillips '99: $70 in support of a reading of original fiction
and poetry by undergraduates.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Everest.earth.green.com, David Lerch '99: $220 for the production
of a performance art piece addressing the relationship among the media,
art, and environmental issues.
Green Group Quarterly: Publication as Art, Mission Hill After
School Program and Kimberly Beeman '00: $250 for Harvard undergraduate counselors
and Mission Hill children working together to create a magazine that will
be exhibited in the Eliot House Art Studio during the week of ARTS FIRST.
Puppet-making Workshop, Onion Weaver Puppeteers and Heather Jezak
'99: $350 for a workshop in which audience members can learn about puppet
creation and performance, create their own puppets, and observe short performances
with completed puppets.
Sound/Image, Jim Cocola '98: $150 in support of production of
a combination of continuously looped recordings of spoken words and mixed
media paintings of computer-generated sound waves of those recordings.
Yard Play, Agitprop and Ron Rosenman: $300 in support of a mobile
installation/performance of puppets mounted on radio control cars that will
travel through Harvard Yard.
MUSIC
Appalachian Spring Concert, Bach Society Orchestra and
Robin Allan '01: $325 for the performance of the rarely presented chamber
music version of Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland at Sanders Theatre.
TCO Spring Concert, Toscanini Chamber Orchestra and Albert Kim
'99: $200 in support of a concert of the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony
No. 9, selections from Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, and Benjamin
Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes.
THEATER
Henry IV: Part One, H-R Dramatic Club and Rachel Sexton
'00: $300 in support of a resetting of Shakespeare's Henry IV: Part One
in the late twentieth century.
Ladies' Night, Mainly Jazz Dance Company, Fantastick Theatre Company,
and Nicholas Saunders '99: $100 in support of a song-and-dance revue examining
the ways in which the roles of women have progressed and regressed throughout
the history of musical theater.
# ("pound"), National Workers' Collective for
Democratic Family Theatre and Hsuan L. Hsu '98: $150 in support of a set
of twenty-one theatre sketches exploring the political meanings of drama
through black comedy.
Revisionist History, Adams House Drama Society and David
Levy '00: $100 for production of a student-written one-act play, featuring
a cast of four women and a dual timeline.
Starting from Zero, Eliot House and
Eliot House tutor Sarah Zwick Tapley: $250 in support of the development
and performance of a montage of scenes by Eliot House residents, utilizing
masks, dance, and poetry.
The Tempest, Hyperion Theatre Company and Sam Speedie '99:
$350 in support of a free, outdoor performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Try This Axe, Immediate Gratification Players and Justin
Krebs '00: $150 for the performance of an improvised musical by this student
improvisational comedy group.
The Valiant Villain, Sunken Garden Children's Theatre and
Timothy Foley '98: $350 in support of a spoof of Western-style movies and
melodrama for both children and adults to be performed in the Sunken Garden
in Radcliffe Yard.
TRADITIONAL CULTURAL ARTS
Chinese Cultural Arts Workshop, Albert Hui '01: $200 in support
of a one-time event designed to teach undergraduates the Chinese cultural
arts of painting, calligraphy, and knotting.
VISUAL ARTS
Be Creative, Harvard Arts and Cultural Exchange and Ying Liu '00:
$185 for an exhibition of student artwork, including painting, sculpture,
photographs, jewelry designs, cards, pottery, wire-works, crochet, and fashion
designs, on the steps of Widener Library.
Programming Presentations and Arts First News Coverage, H-R Media
Network and Jonathan M. Vatner '01: $350 in support of the presentation
of student-made programming, the taping of ARTS FIRST events, and demonstrations
on the making of TV.
Copyright
1998 President and Fellows of Harvard College
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