GRANTEES

New PNC Arts Alive All Access: Continuation and expansion of this multi-disciplinary initiative beyond 18 years old, to reach a slightly older demographic of college-age, young graduates and young workers. This program will provide $5 tickets for young people ages 13-25 to make arts performances and exhibits accessible and affordable.

PNC Arts Alive Presents A Persian Musical Feast: This event will consist of 3 evening concerts, 1 afternoon concert designed for children and four days of concerts at eight central Ohio schools. Each concert will involve Iranian musicians, dancers and poets who will perform before and during the concerts. Persian and Iranian food will be provided at all concerts to provide attendees opportunities to further explore the culture. A DVD of the concert will be recorded, produced and distributed free of charge to central Ohio schools and libraries.

PNC Arts Alive's From Page to Stage--THE RUBENSTEIN KISS: The US premiere of The Rubenstein Kiss with a residency by the playwright and expanded education elements for the public. The play was inspired by the true story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were tried and executed in 1953 for passing secrets to the Soviet Union. The project will open up the process of creating and producing theatre by using social media to provide glimpses of the process from printed page to stage.

KENTE: A collaborative project between Columbus Children's Theatre, Thiossane West African Dance Institute, Thurber House and the Columbus Children's Choir. The project, Kente, is named for the African cloth identified by its multicolored, woven patterns of geometric shapes and bold designs. The project will showcase a variety of West Africans folktales interpreted through dance, drama and song. Thurber House will host a week long residency with Dr. Offodile where he will teach a class on folktales and their importance as living history. Students will write their own stories and receive a bound copy of their folktales at a reception for Dr. Offodile.

PNC Arts Alive Concerts for Kids: The series presents musical adventures for children (ages 2-10) and their families with pre-concert music, learning and fun activities. Pre-concert activities will include - meet the animals from Ohio Wildlife Center, make a musical craft with the Columbus Museum of Art, see/hear live harp performances, try out a musical instrument "petting zoo" from the Loft Violin Shop and Music and Arts Centers, learn to conduct with Symphony musicians, choose a tattoo, dance/sing with WeJoySing and college music students.

Appalachian Strings: The Instruments, Their Makers, The Music -- Presented by PNC Arts Alive: An exhibition of dulcimers, banjos, fiddles, guitars and mandolins accompanied by family activities, lectures, art classes, live music and an exhibition catalog. The goal of the project is to generate a heightened understanding and appreciation of the instrumental roots of American music with an emphasis placed on instruments with a folk art or self-taught quality to their design, reflecting the intense desire of the human spirit to create music, even in poverty.

PNC Arts Alive Worthington-Sayama Arts Exchange: A juried joint art exhibit by the MAC and Sayama Citizen Art Society. The MAC exhibit will be shown at the Civic Hall in Sayama, Japan while the Sayama citizens' art will be exhibited at the MAC in Worthington, OH. Representatives from the respective countries will accompany their exhibits and assist in the installation, attend a reception and present 2-3 lectures on the art process, their culture and historical perspective. The project will be documented in print, video and virtual media and made available to schools or other educational venues as classroom materials.

PNC Presents: Portraits of a Columbus Bicentennial: A multi-disciplinary effort to produce a staged performance, combining several arts mediums centered around Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and Lincoln Portrait. Mayor Coleman will narrate Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address while the symphony plays Lincoln Portrait. Photography by local high school students will be projected above the orchestra during the performance of Appalachian Spring. The students will be asked to capture Lincoln's ideals at work set against the backdrop of everyday Columbus landmarks. Two concerts will be performed one at the McCoy Community Center another at a local high school.

PNC Arts Alive presents: ProMusica at Franklin Park Summer Concert Series: A three concert summer series performed on the grounds of the Franklin Park Conservatory. The projects will engage diverse audiences with a particular focus on reaching residents in the urban, near East Side neighborhoods surrounding Franklin Park. Prior to each concert hands-on activities will be provided for children incorporating nature, music and art, and with access to educational resources such as the Community Garden Campus and endless plantings of hundreds of species.

Astronomical Pictures at an Exhibition presented by PNC Arts Alive: The project will be a performance of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky/Ravel accompanied by an award-winning projection video created by Astronomer Jose Francisco Salgado who will be in attendance. The video has been carefully synchronized to the score. Also on the program is the US premiere of Prometheus Rapture by Columbus composer Sean Beeson and soloist Jeff Queen. Completing the program will be Clint Needham's Legacies and Ravel's La Valse.

The Harmony Project Spring 2012: A collaborative project between the Harmony Project and Jazz Arts Group to present "Lifting Every Voice: A Concert to End Homelessness". The concert will be held in the Lincoln Theatre. During the ten week rehearsal phase, the choir will meet to rehearse and participate in designated community service activities.

PNC Arts Alive Presents S.T.E.M. On Stage: A collaborative project between the Midland and the Newark school system to develop three 40 minute live stage performances bringing S.T.E.M. curriculum to life by characters in a story. The performances will be digitally stored on a sever for later streaming availability and editing to DVD.

Daniel Bernard Roumain residency with the Westerville Symphony, funding provided by PNC Arts Alive: A residency for Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) a young Haitian-American violinist with an eclectic background. During the residency DBR will lead masterclasses at Otterbein, lead workshops at Westerville schools and perform an informal concert for adults titled "Hip Hop Studies and Etudes".

CAPA will help arts groups reach teenagers, an audience that is notoriously difficult to reach but critical for the future by offering $5 tickets for teenagers age 13 through 17 to make arts performances and exhibits accessible and affordable. More than 20 arts organizations will participate, ranging from large institutions like BalletMet, to small groups like Six Strings Concerts.

Through "PNC Arts Alive presents Music from the Start," Carpe Diem will develop tailored programs for the three-to-five year-olds, working with teachers and staff of the Head Start program in Franklin County. A videographer will be at many of these school visits, and will produce an interactive DVD that can be distributed to schools in low-to-moderate income geographies.

CATCO-Phoenix will produce a series of 10 free staged play readings in collaboration with three emerging theatre companies: Whistling in the Dark, Evolution Theatre Company and Available Light Theatre as part of "PNC on Stage." To encourage audience comments, patrons' tweets (Twitter postings) will be displayed on a screen behind the actors in real-time. Twitter users not in attendance who read the comments will become interested in the series and help build the audience.

A collaboration between Columbus Gay Men's Choir, Columbus Children's Choir and Promusica Chamber Orchestra to present "Musicians in Harmony" at the historic Lincoln Theatre, this program combines three diverse arts groups into one project to give each group's unique audience the chance to gain awareness and appreciation of new art forms.

The "PNC Summer Fun Initiative" will offer Central Ohio residents free admission and a wealth of rich art experiences daily throughout July and August of 2011. Programs include: "Surprise Supplies Saturdays," "Creative Fridays," "Make Art!" every Tuesday, "Community Capers" every Thursday, "Drawing in the Galleries" experiences, and musical performances every Sunday. Most activities will be mediated by trained staff to deepen and enrich the visitor experience.

Mad River Theatre Works will create "The Living WPA: A Play with Music" based on the Living Newspaper, a genre of theater developed by the Federal Theater Project of the 1930's, to deliver local news to more regional and national audiences by creating plays and radio pieces taken from real-life stories. The Living WPA project will be a multi-media performance presenting stories of the people and places of rural Ohio. Topics will include the Great Depression and the New Deal and how it affected families of rural Ohio.

Shadow Box and BalletMet are creating "Make It Live!" as an audience development and education component of their collaboration to create a full-length World Premier of "7 Deadly Sins," combining the seemingly opposite qualities of rock-n-roll and ballet. Seven choreographers are being commissioned by BalletMet to create movement for each "sin," set to music performed by Shadowbox's house band, BillWho? The Make It Live! component will include extensive video-documentation of the creative process, made available with live streams and with widespread promotion and access via webs sites and social media.

The PNC Arts Alive Exhibition Series will present a series of at least seven free public arts shows showcasing the work of both local professional and amateur artists. It also will include the annual Delaware County High School Art Show, offering financial awards to students.

"Jazz on the Avenue" is a concert series that showcases musical talent in traditional jazz and other musical forms influenced by jazz. The series exposes middle school to college age students to musicians in settings other than traditional concerts: online and live-performance, long-distance learning opportunities, lecture/demonstrations of instruments and vocalization techniques.

The PiNoCchio Ballet project will combine outstanding professional musicians, dancers, costume and design artists and production personnel in the creative process of a new work with some of the most promising student musicians, dancers and artists in central Ohio. Professional dancers from BalletMet will be featured as well as gifted student dancers from the BalletMet school and other area dance academies. Student visual and design artists will work with professional costume and set designers.

The Virtual Music Workshop will create a multi-media performance of Holst's "The Planets" in collaboration with the Newark Granville Symphony Orchestra. Narration for the performance, including interview with scientific experts on each of the planets, will be integrated into the concert. Educational opportunities will be extended through live internet streaming and satellite feeds. Digital recordings of these activities will be made available to school libraries for later use.

The "Tunes and Tales" program pairs classic children's books with classical music. Concerts are presented, free of charge, for children ages two through eight at the Westerville, Worthington, Columbus Main and the Karl Road branch libraries. The concerts will be recorded and broadcast on the Symphony and Library's web sites as a podcast. Participating families will receive one book per family to encourage them to revisit the podcast and recreate the concert experience at home.

The "Art Watch" project will engage contemporary Ohio artists to present open commentary on works of art from the past and recreate the work in their own style. Each day will focus on a different medium, including pottery, glass, original prints, and quilts/fiber. Visitors will be invited to view, interact and create their own art and to photograph and comment with their favorite social media. "Art Watch" will be process-oriented, personal and participatory, as well as viewable through real-time video and audio shared through the internet.