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Spring 2008 News

IN THIS ISSUE... 

CULTURECOUNT LAUNCHED 

NEFA RECEIVES $100K TO SUPPORT CAC NETWORK 

NATIVE ARTS @ NEFA ADVANCES 

NEW GRANT RECIPIENTS 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: 
ANIRUDDHA KNIGHT & ENSEMBLE 

GRANT PROGRAM GUIDELINES 
AND DEADLINES 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

2007 IN REVIEW 

STAFF NEWS 

GOOD2GETHER LAUNCHES 

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Greetings!  

Spring has sprung in New England, and NEFA's own "creative economy" is
abuzz.  

Our New England Cultural Database has been re-designed and re-launched as
CultureCount.  The launch is drawing notice and hundreds of new users, and I
encourage you to check it out!  Other highlights in this issue:

Two new funding partners have come on board in the last couple of months.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has made possible new funding
for four national Contemporary Art Centers projects, each poised to grow the
base for national choreographic development in relation to our National
Dance Project.  We're delighted that the Institute of Contemporary Art here
in Boston is a part of this effort.

A grant from the Bay and Paul Foundations will help make possible the
expansion of funding opportunities through the Native Arts @ NEFA program.

And last but not least, NEFA will roll out a new online grant application
system this fall. This much-anticipated advance will be user-friendly, save
paper, and increase our ability to analyze trends and our impact.

As always, we welcome your comments and feedback.

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NEFA has announced the public launch of CultureCount, New England's Cultural
Database. This online resource, located at www.culturecount.org
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is the only comprehensive and consistent data collection resource for New
England's cultural nonprofits, creative businesses, and professionals.
Constantly being updated and expanded, CultureCount's local data supplements
the federal data analyzed by NEFA in research reports on the creative
sector.  The data also fits within the definitional structure outlined in
The Creative Economy: A New Definition
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provides economic data on New England's labor force.  

CultureCount is provided as a free public service to New England. The
database houses over 23,000 active records and offers a variety of search
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NEFA RECEIVES $100K TO SUPPORT CONTEMPORARY ART CENTERS NETWORK 

NEFA has received $100,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts in support of the Contemporary Art Centers (CAC) network.  CAC is a
unique network of performing arts curators at contemporary art centers from
around the country whose goal is to build connections with performing
artists and to help these centers collaborate with their peer organizations
to maintain a high level of programming. With lead funding from the Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, four artist projects (listed below)
were selected to receive support.  For more on these projects, visit NEFA's
website
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NEFA Contemporary Art Centers 2008 grantees: 

Center: Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Artists: Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton

Project: Songs of Ascension

Center: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Artists: Nick Cave and Ronald K. Brown

Project: Messenger: New Work by Nick Cave (Working Title)   

Center: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

Artist: William Forsythe
Project: William Forsythe: Performance and Video Installations

Center: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Artists: Ralph Lemon and others

Project: Blues (Working Title)

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080223580> NATIVE ARTS @ NEFA ADVANCES  

Native Arts @ NEFA has implemented a new funding opportunity for Native
artists in the
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National Travel Fund.  The program will provide travel grants for Native
artists to exchange artistic skills, knowledge and ideas, and to develop
collaborative projects.   

NEFA also recently received a $20,000 grant from the Bay and Paul
Foundations in support of its Native Arts programming.  Native Arts @ NEFA
is actively seeking additional funding, which, paired with funding from the
Ford Foundation, Anonymous, and now Bay and Paul, will allow for additional
grants to a greater number of artists as well as other programmatic
activities.

Artwork and photo courtesy of 2007 Native Arts @ NEFA grantee Jeanette
Parker (Passamaquoddy)

NEW GRANT RECIPIENTS  

NEFA provides funding through several different grant programs.  The most
recent grant awards have been made through the grant programs listed below
and represent over $383,000 in grant making; click on one of the following
links to view the details:

*	Contemporary Art Center grant recipients
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*	French-US Exchange for Dance grant recipients
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*	Fund for the Arts grant recipients
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*	Native Arts New England grant recipients
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*	New England States Touring grant recipients
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 Aniruddha Knight
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080223580> IN THE SPOTLIGHT: ANIRUDDHA KNIGHT AND ENSEMBLE (BALA MUSIC AND
DANCE ASSOCIATION)  

NEFA is always looking to share stories of its work with artists and
presenters, as well as with funders and partners.  This month, Aniruddha
Knight and Ensemble (Bala Music and Dance Association) gets the spotlight.

"I don't think I even realized the impact this performance has not only for
us but also the country," remarked Pamela Tatge, Executive Director of the
Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University. Aniruddha Knight - the first
male dancer in nine generations of one of India's great professional
artistic families - began the national tour of From the Heart of a Tradition
at Wesleyan this spring.  The last known practitioner of bharata natya,
Knight crossed the boundaries of a strong matrilineal tradition to carry on
this south Indian dance form made famous by his grandmother, Balasaraswati. 

With production and touring support from NEFA's National Dance Project, New
England-based Knight and his company of musicians and vocalists performed
>From the Heart of a Tradition throughout the region, including
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and then on
to national venues in Illinois, Washington, and Oregon.  

Elaborating on the juxtaposition of tradition and boundary-crossing, Tatge
went on to explain that Balasaraswati herself performed at Wesleyan
University in 1962 -the first non-Westerner to do so.  With From the Heart
of a Tradition, her grandson follows in her footsteps in more ways than one.

Share your story with NEFA and get featured in a newsletter by emailing
abaisas at nefa.org. 

Photo: Aniruddha Knight and Ensemble (Bala Music and Dance Association), by
Arthur Fink

GRANT PROGRAM GUIDELINES AND DEADLINES

Guidelines for NEFA's grant program Meet the Composer/New England have
recently been revised and are available at
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and forms for other programs, please visit NEFA's website www.nefa.org
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'Grant Programs,' and select the grant program of interest.

Upcoming NEFA grant application deadlines are listed below.  All grant
deadlines are receipt deadlines, and due at NEFA by 5:00 p.m. EST on the
deadline date: 

*	Meet the Composer/New England:
June 2, 2008 
*	New England States Touring: 
June 2, 2008 
*	National Dance Project Production for Full Proposal: 
June 16, 2008 (only for Production grant applicants who have been notified
to submit full proposal) 
*	Native Arts New England: 
July 15, 2008 (for projects occurring between September 1, 2008 and August
31, 2009) 
*	Native Artist Exchange - National Travel Fund:
Rolling Deadline 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

NEFA-funded events
For a list of NEFA-funded events, please visit the Events Calendar
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NEFA Regional Dance Development Initiative Exchange Series for Dance 

Two events remain and will wrap up NEFA's RDDI Exchange Series for Dance.
Be sure to attend one or both!  For more information, visit NEFA's website
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*
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in Eastern Massachusetts at Summer Stages/Concord Academy  
*	June 24-25, 2008 in New Haven, CT at Festival of Arts and Ideas,
ACES Theater

 NEFA Annual Report
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080223580> 2007 IN REVIEW 

NEFA's 2007 annual report
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look at highlights from last year in images and stories, as well as
financial statements.  View the report at
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www.nefa.org/about/documents/NEFAannualreportFY07.pdf.

STAFF NEWS 

NEFA is happy to announce three new staff members: Program Associate Erin
Johnstone joined NEFA in the beginning of April.  Johnstone has worked with
many New England artists as an artist representative in the past, and brings
her knowledge of the field to NEFA.  Executive and Development Associate
Sandy Upton joined the staff after having worked in stage management and
production for a number of years.  Lastly, Resource Development Manager
Sarah Long comes to the organization with prior experience in development
and as an opera singer and recitalist. 

GOOD2GETHER LAUNCHES IN JUNE 

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making it possible for organizations to engage potential donors, volunteers,
and advocates via a web 2.0 platform, and at no cost to the nonprofits who
participate.  The public launch will take place in June, so there is still
time to sign up; visit http://preview.good2gether.com/join/nefa
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