26 February, 2019
Hopkinton Cultural Council announces 2019 grant recipients and recognition reception.
Hopkinton, MA. The Hopkinton Cultural Council is pleased to host a reception in honor of its 2019 grant award recipients in the function room at Ko’s Restaurant in Hopkinton on April 2nd at 6:30 PM.
“We saw a large increase in the number of applications this year so we were only able to fund a small number of them with our limited funds. We feel like the grants that we did award are of high quality and will benefit the Hopkinton community in rich and diverse ways.” – Sterling Worrell, Chair of the Hopkinton Cultural Council.
This year, the Hopkinton Cultural Council funded 11 grants. Below is a list of applications that were fully or partially granted:
Brown Box Theatre Project (Free Summer Shakespeare) at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.
Sunset Jazz Series at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.
Hopkinton Garden Club Speaker Series
HSS Jazz Ensemble Clinicians
Cultural Crates (Elmwood School Diversity)
Protecting & Preserving Hopkinton’s Indigenous Ceremonial Stone Landscape to be presented at the Hopkinton Public Library.
A Tribute to Women Composers from Around the World to be performed at the Hopkinton Public Library.
Hopkinton Community Summer Band sponsored by the Hopkinton Music Association with concert taking place on the Hopkinton Common.
1940’s USO Tribute Show presented by Enter Stage Left and performed at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.
Fitch Family Collection Exhibition & Speakers Series
Acoustic Concert for Seniors to be performed at the Hopkinton Senior Center.
The event is by invitation and free to invited guests, with light refreshments will be hosted and a cash bar at Ko’s Restaurant at the reception.
"This is a chance to honor the work of artists and arts organizations in the Hopkinton area," says Sterling Worrell, chairperson of the Hopkinton Cultural Council. "We are particularly excited about the range and quality of the funded projects this year and the increased number of applicants that reflects the growing interests in the arts in our community. Each project was chosen because of its substantial public benefit for the residents of Hopkinton."
"Arts and culture are an important part of what makes our community vibrant," says Carolyn Dykema, State Representative. "I am proud to support the Hopkinton Cultural Council and its outstanding grant recipients."
The Hopkinton Cultural Council is part of a network of 329 Local Cultural Councils serving all 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. The LCC Program is the largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation, supporting thousands of community-based projects in the arts, sciences and humanities every year. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, which then allocates funds to each community.
The Hopkinton Cultural Council will seek applications again in the fall. Information and forms are available online at www.massculturalcouncil.org or the Hopkinton Cultural Council’s chair, Sterling Worrell at culturalchair@hopkinton.gov.
For more information about the grant reception please contact Rick Jacobs, Hopkinton Cultural Council member at olddrj@gmail.com.
Date: February 25, 2019
Contact: Darlene Hayes/Hopkinton Cultural Council, Press Secretary
Phone: 508-904-7417
E-mail: darlenehayes@yahoo.com
