City Parks Foundation Announces Performing Arts Grant Program for Marcus Garvey Park in Historic Harlem
- This Grant had a pre-bid event.
The City Parks Foundation is a New York City not-for-profit organization that works in over seven hundred and fifty parks citywide to present a broad range of free arts, sports, environmental education, and community building activities.
The foundation has announced the establishment of the CPF/Richard Rodgers Amphitheater Performing Arts Grant, a one-time opportunity intended to attract premier arts presenters and groups to produce works at the newly constructed Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park. The program will fund concert, dance, theater, and multi-disciplinary projects that feature live performances only. Projects that evoke the history or ethos of Marcus Garvey Park and/or its surrounding neighborhoods in historic Harlem will be given special consideration.
Presenter applications are invited from nonprofit arts organizations and professional artists.
To be eligible, arts presenting organizations must have 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status; present free or low-cost music, dance, theater, or multi-disciplinary performing arts programs as its primary organizational mission; have presented a minimum of five free or low-cost public programs within the last year; and be based in New York City, with priority given to presenters based in historic Harlem and/or in near proximity to Marcus Garvey Park (from Mount Morris Park West to Madison Avenue between E. 120th and E. 124th Streets).
Applicants must have performed as a professional individual, group, or company for a minimum of three years; have presented a minimum of five public programs within the last year; and have presenter or venue references based in New York City, with priority given to groups based in historic Harlem and/or in near proximity to Marcus Garvey Park.
Applicants may propose one or more programs that will be free to the general public. The program(s) must be produced between June and September in either 2012 or 2013. The maximum audience capacity of the amphitheater is approximately three thousand.
The program will award a total of $25,000 in three to five grants ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 each. The grant will cover up to 75 percent of eligible expenses, which the presenter or group must match with a minimum of 25 percent contributed income.
Preference will be given to applicants that submit a one-page Letter of Intent no later than December 16, 2011.
For complete program guidelines and the application form, visit the City Parks Foundation Web site.
