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Artist creates a space for healing on Zoom: âYouâre stepping into resilience just by showing upâ
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated April 9, 2021, 3:19 p.m.
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Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel s Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.Lane Turner/Globe staff
Hate crimes, pandemic, systemic racism. For many, the overwhelming shock of the past year is hard to put into words. Maybe words are just not adequate to the task.
In Creative Resilience Dialogues, presented twice a month on Zoom by the Northampton Center for the Arts, art activist Chelvanaya Gabriel creates a space for anyone feeling overwhelmed, beaten down, or angry.
Northampton Arts Council awards $22K to local artists, groups
Circle time at the Northampton Parents Center, led by Swansea Benham Bleicher, in this undated photo. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Published: 3/14/2021 8:06:28 PM
NORTHAMPTON It’s been a difficult year for artists and art organizations, with the pandemic shutting down the vast majority of live performances. But the Northampton Arts Council is doing what it can to keep artists afloat.
The council has awarded just under $22,000 in grants to support art projects and programming in and around Northampton. The 35 grants made, for $21,960, were allocated to the city by the Massachusetts Cultural Councils’ Local Cultural Council (LCC) program.
Passim awards grant to Roslindale singer
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Passim recently awarded $40,141 in grants to 24 musicians through its Iguana Music Fund, including Roslindale singer and multi-instrumentalist Sadie Gustafson-Zook.
The Iguana Music Fund awards grants annually to musicians for career building projects and for projects that provide community service through music. Established in 2008 after an anonymous donor approached Passim with the idea to start a program to support local artists’ career growth, the fund provides grants from $500 to $2,000 for musicians with a “strong New England connection.”
Grants are allocated in the areas of recording or manufacturing assistance, publicity and marketing support, equipment and instruments, songwriting retreats, tour support, special projects and other specific activities that promote artists work and/or professional growth. Over the past decade, Passim has awarded more than $475,000 in grants, funding more than 285 projects. In
Passim awards 2020 Iguana Music Fund Grants
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Passim recently awarded over $40,000 to 24 musicians through its 2020 Iguana Music Fund, including Brighton-based harpist and composer Màiri Chaimbeul and Allston-based folk musicians Casey Murray and Molly Tucker and Dave Richardson.
The grants will help Chaimbeul, Murray and Tucker and Richardson release new albums.
The Iguana Music Fund awards gifts annually to musicians for career building projects and for projects that provide community service through music and are allocated in the areas of recording or manufacturing assistance, publicity and marketing support, equipment and instruments, songwriting retreats, tour support, special projects and other specific activities that promote artists work and/or professional growth.