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Shakespeare & Co. Awarded $50K NEA Grant - November 07, 2007
LENOX - The National Endowment for the Arts' Learning in the Arts Program has awarded $50,000 to Shakespeare and Company's 19th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. The support of the NEA dates back to 1984, bringing the running total of NEA contributions to nearly $600,000.
The festival is a nine-week program involving more than 500 students in Massachusetts and New York that culminates in a four-day marathon of 10 fully-mounted Shakespeare plays in Founders’ Theatre from Nov. 15 to 18. Performances in the participating schools run Nov. 7 to 11. For tickets and festival information, call the box office at 413-637-3353 or visit www.shakespeare.org. In-school performances and Founders' schedule are also available online.
This season's participating high schools include Chatham (N.Y.) High School, Mount Everett Regional School, Mount Greylock Regional High School, Lee High School, Lenox Memorial High School, Monument Mountain Regional High School, North Andover High School, Springfield Central High School, Taconic High School and Taconic Hills High School in New York.
"We are incredibly honored and grateful for this recent gift from the NEA and their continued support for all of our education programs, in particular our Fall Festival of Shakespeare," said Director of Education Kevin G. Coleman. "It is this kind of support that makes the festival possible, and will not only bring Shakespeare vibrantly alive for hundreds of students this year but it also reinforces the fact that arts in education is essential to the full development of all our children."
The NEA supports American theater by funding the work of theater companies of all sizes, genres and aesthetics, and is committed to the goal of enabling all Americans to enrich their lives through the arts. The Learning In the Arts program's two goals are to invite children to celebrate and participate in a central part of their cultural inheritance, and to develop their social and academic skills through the arts. For more information: www.NEA.gov.
Shakespeare and Company's Education Program has reached more than one million students since 1978 with performances, workshops and residencies. It recently received the 2006 Coming Up Taller Award presented by first lady Laura Bush at the White House in January and, in 2005, received the Commonwealth Award, the highest award for excellence in the arts, sciences and humanities given by the state of Massachusetts. |
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