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Mid-America Arts Alliance officially opens its 2010-11 Performing Arts Grants Cycle
Mid-America Arts Alliance has opened its grant cycle for both its Community Engagement with Touring Artists (CETA) and its Regional Touring Program (RTP). The deadline for CETA grant applications is Feb. 1, 2010. Presenters may apply for multiple artists' appearances under the CETA program.
Mid-America Arts Alliance has opened its grant cycle for both its Community Engagement with Touring Artists (CETA) and its Regional Touring Program (RTP).
The deadline for CETA grant applications is Feb. 1, 2010. Presenters may apply for multiple artists' appearances under the CETA program.
Applications for our Regional Touring Program (RTP) grants are also being accepted at this time, with an application deadline for the first round of applications of April 15, 2010.
The changes in the new RTP grant opportunities for 2010-2011 are:
Presenters can apply for RTP grants only for performances featuring artists from the Mid-America Artists' Registry. This is a new requirement; in the past we only required that the artist be from the six-state region, regardless of his or her affiliation with Mid-America Arts Alliance .
RTP grant requests will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis, rather than reviewed by a grantmaking panel. CETA grant requests will still receive panel review.
Presenters can receive a grant from one program category, but not both. This is not a new guideline, but it is one sometimes overlooked by presenters when submitting their grant application.
Grant guidelines and our online eGrant system for both CETA and RTP can be found on the Performing Arts Programs page of our our website, www.maaa.org. Be sure to visit our Artists' Registry often to search for artists in the region, as more artists join every month.
Questions? Contact Betty Maltbia, Performing Arts Manager, 816-421-1388, ext. 228.
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Megan Browne Helm grew up singing, dancing and acting. Inspired by Emma Kirkby as a high school student in St. Louis she went on to study voice and sing with the Collegium Musicum at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio where she also had a radio show of contemporary classical music on WOBC. At the University of Kansas she had the pleasure of working with former Kings’ Singer, Simon Carrington in his Collegium Musicum and Oread consort. Years later, she was a choral fellow at the Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She is currently singing with the Kansas City Symphony Chorus under the direction of Charles Bruffy.
As a freelance music and culture writer her work can be found on KCMetropolis.org, presentmagazine.com, the Lawrence Journal World, Shawnee Magazine, Leawood Lifestyle Magazine and KC Parent. She was one of 26 journalists in the country chosen as a NEA Institute Fellow for Classical Music and Opera at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Her current interest is how classical music remains relevant through active collaborations with artists in different fields, including science. She also sees a connection between classical music, travel and food as a way to engage all of the senses in a 360 degree cultural experience. She blogs at raworganum.wordpress.com.
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