Performing Arts Grants

CITY COUNCIL AWARDS
 2012 CULVER CITY PERFORMING ARTS GRANTS
FIFTEEN ORGANIZATIONS TO PRESENT PERFORMANCES THROUGHOUT CULVER CITY

The City Council has awarded fifteen organizations grants through the Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program. These companies will present music, dance, and theatre performances, including many family-friendly productions, in Culver City throughout 2012.

Established in 1994, the Culver City Performing Arts Grants Program offers grants to Los Angeles County performing arts organizations.  Under the purview of the City Council and the Cultural Affairs Commission, the program is designed to support local non-profit performing arts organizations and to bring other distinguished, cultural programming to Culver City. Sony Pictures Entertainment has generously supported this program annually through a larger contribution to the City.

Music performances will be offered by Culver City Symphony Orchestra at Veterans Memorial Auditorium; The Definiens Project at the Ivy Substation; The Jazz Bakery at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra at Veterans Memorial Auditorium; and Vox Femina Los Angeles at Culver City Presbyterian Church.

Dance performances will be offered by Collage Dance Theatre at Washing Day Coin Laundry; CONTRA-TIEMPO at the Helms Bakery District; Donna Sternberg & Dancers at Brasil Brasil Cultural Center; and Invertigo Dance Theatre at Brasil Brasil Cultural Center.

Theatre performances will be offered by needtheater at the Ivy Substation; Culver City Public Theatre at Carlson Park; and Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival at the Ivy Substation.

Performances for families with young children will be offered by The Actors’ Gang at Media Park; Culver City Public Theatre at Carlson Park; The Definiens Project at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library; Rogue Artists Ensemble at the Ivy Substation; and We Tell Stories at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library.

More information on the Culver City Performing Arts Grants Program is available by calling the Cultural Affairs Hotline at (310) 253-5716.


To view the 2012 application, click here.

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