{"id":110349,"date":"2019-12-27T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=110349"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T15:45:53","slug":"arts-at-the-palace-awarded-new-play-development-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=110349","title":{"rendered":"Arts at the Palace awarded new play development grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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State Council on the Arts grants support vital cultural programs statewide<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arts at the Palace\nin Hamilton announced that it has been awarded a two-year, $6,000 grant from\nthe New York State Council on the Arts for 2020 with the support of Governor\nAndrew M. Cuomo and the state Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NYSCA grants support\nthe transformative impact of the performing, literary, visual and media arts in\nNew York state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arts at the Palace\nis one of 462 arts organizations across the state receiving a total of $8,383,993\nmillion in grants through NYSCA\u2019s Round II funding to support arts programs\nthat drive the state\u2019s economic growth and community health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe arts and\nculture are a critical driver of health in people and places,\u201d said Mara Manus,\nexecutive director, NYSCA. \u201cOur state\u2019s creative industries generate a total of\n$120 billion to the state economy, account for 466,000 jobs, and play a\nsignificant role in revitalization, education and social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NYSCA will award a\ntotal of $41 million to arts organizations across New York for 2020. The second\nof three rounds of NYSCA funding for FY2020 includes support for museums,\ntheatres and arts organizations that drive tourism and anchor communities and\narts education programs essential to learning for all ages, including public\nschool students, aging populations and at-risk youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NYSCA Round II grants\nalso support creative arts programs promoting physical and mental health and\npersonal and professional development in historically underserved and\nvulnerable communities, including those in geographically remote areas;\ndisabled communities; impoverished and homeless populations; and\njustice-involved youth and adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arts at the Palace\nreceived funding through NYSCA\u2019s Theater Program to support From Script to\nStage, a residency program for the development of new theater works based at\nthe Palace Theater in Hamilton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled\nthat NYSCA has recognized the importance and potential of this program to offer\nopportunities to New York artists as well as engagement activities designed to\nbring area residents into the artistic process,\u201d says AATP Executive Director\nVictoria Calvert Kappel. \u201cIn the summer of 2020, From Script to Stage will\nproduce the world premiere of Donna Hoke\u2019s play \u2018Hearts of Stone.\u2019 Noted playwright,\nauthor and director Kyle Bass is artistic advisor for the project. The\nresidency will last four weeks and include weekly outreach events aimed at\nintroducing the community to the process of writing and producing a play. The\nsecond year of NYSCA funding will enable AATP to grow this exciting program\neven more in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna Hoke\u2019s work has\nbeen seen in 47 states and on five continents, including at Barrington Stage,\nBarrow Group, Celebration Theatre, Gulfshore Theatre, Queens Theatre, The Road,\nWriters Theatre New Jersey, Phoenix Theatre, Atlantic Stage, Purple Rose,\nSkylight, Pride Films and Plays, New Jersey Rep, Hens and Chickens (London),\nThe Galway Fringe Festival, and Actors Repertory Theatre of Luxembourg. She has\nbeen nominated for the Primus, Blackburn and Laura Pels prizes and is a\nthree-time winner of the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play (Seeds,\nSons & Lovers, Once In My Lifetime). She has also received an individual\nartist award from NYSCA to develop Hearts of Stone and, in its final three\nyears, Artvoice named her Buffalo’s Best Writer\u2014the only woman to\never receive the designation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Bass, associate\nartistic director at Syracuse Stage and a professor in the theater\ndepartment at Colgate University, is the author of \u201cPossessing Harriet,\u201d\ncommissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association, which received its world\npremiere at Syracuse Stage in October 2018. He is a two-time recipient of the\nNew York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (for fiction in 1998 and\nplaywriting in 2010), a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and\nPushcart Prize nominee. As dramaturg, Kyle worked with acclaimed visual artist\nCarrie Mae Weems on her theatre piece Grace Notes: Reflections for Now,\nwhich had its world premiere at the 2016 Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston,\nSouth Carolina, subsequently produced at Yale Rep and the Kennedy Center. As a\nscreenwriter, Kyle is the co-author of the original screenplay for the filmDay\nof Days (Broad Green Pictures, 2017), which stars award-winning veteran\nactor Tom Skerritt, and he is the author of the screenplay adaptation of the\nnovel Milk by Darcy Steinke. The creator and curator of Syracuse\nStage\u2019s \u201cCold Read Festival\u201d of new plays, Kyle holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting\nfrom Goddard College and is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of\nAmerica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annually, NYSCA\ngrants are awarded in 15 discipline programs<\/a>\nand the Regional Economic Development Council\ninitiative<\/a>. Over the last two years, NYSCA has awarded\nan additional $30 million in capital funding to 71 organizations statewide\nfueling community development and tourism, and will announce additional capital\ngrant awards this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew York\u2019s cultural\nsector is a driving force in our state\u2019s economy,\u201d said Katherine Nicholls,\nChair, New York State Council on the Arts. \u201cAs our arts organizations expand\ntheir audiences and programs with NYSCA support, we will serve many more New\nYorkers and build the vitality of our communities statewide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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