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NYFA SOS Round 3 Applications due May 28th - 5:30pm!
Guidelines and Application available for Download Here (New Fillable PDF Form!!!)

The Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS) is designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significant benefit their work to artists living in ALLEGANY, CATTARAUGUS, CHAUTAUQUA, ERIE, and NIAGARA counties. This program is designed to help individual artists working in all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that may significantly benefit their work or career development. Visual, literary, media, music, theatre, craft, folk, interdisciplinary, and performing artists may request support ranging from $100 to $600 for specific forthcoming opportunities. Funding from the program is offered three times per year, the next deadline for applications in ROUND 3 is Thursday, May 28, 2009. The proposed activities/opportunities must take place between July 1, 2009 – October 31, 2009.

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"FOOD FOR THOUGHT"
ART AND WINE SHOW ON VIEW JUNE 5 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY JUNE 5th, 2009 5:30pm-8pm

THE ARTS COUNCIL IN BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY PROUDLY PRESENTS THE PAIRING OF CHERYL BROCK, A WELL-KNOWN PORTIATURE ARTIST FROM NEW YORK CITY & MICHAEL VON HECKLER, OWNER AND WINE MAKER OF PINOT NOIR, WARM LAKE ESTATE WINERY FROM THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT USA. TWO RECEPTIONS HELD ON JUNE 5TH AND SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 COMMEMORATING "CURTAIN UP 2009"

For information regarding these events please call 716-856-7520

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2009 Erie County DEC Awardee Information

The 2009 Erie County Decentralization (DEC) program is in full swing and the Arts Council in the process of creating an online calendar of all DEC funded events happening throughout the year to be featured on the website. If you are a 2009 DEC grant receipient please make sure you have a complete program information sheet into the Regrants Office.

2009 DEC Forms to Download:
Program Information Sheet (required to receive 2009 DEC grant payment)
2009 DEC Final Report (due 1 month after your project's end date)
2009 DEC Final Report Budget Form (must be included with final report)
DEC Project Change Request (the Regrant Office must be consulted before submitting this form)

2009 Erie County DEC awardees: Amherst Symphony Orchestra Assoc., Aspire of WNY, Inc., Blossom Garden Friends School, Buffalo Contemporary Dance, Community Music School of Buffalo, Earth's Daughters: A Feminist Arts Periodical, East Buffalo Sculpture Center, Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts, Freudig Singers of Western New York, Friends of Music at St. Paul's Cathedral, Impact Artists Gallery, Inc, Juneteenth Festival Inc., King Urban Life Center, Music is Art, Neglia Ballet Artists, Parkside Community Association, People Inc., Pilgrim-St. Luke's United Church, Playhouse of American Classics, Subversive Theatre Collective, Summer Theatre Arts Group Experience (STAGE), Summerstock Theatre Co., SYNERGY/Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, Town of Boston Arts Council, Town of Brant, Town of Collins Public Library, Town of Elma, Town of North Collins Recreation Dept., Triveni Inc, Village of Blasdell, Village of Hamburg, Village of Sloan Arts & Cultural Council, Vocalis Chamber Choir, West Side Community Services, Western New York Artists Group, Inc, Youth Orchestra Foundation of Buffalo.

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Pictures from recent Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County Activities and Events

Created with flickr slideshow.

THE ARTS COUNCIL OF BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY TOGETHER WITH
SHEA’S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
CURTAIN UP! 2009

CURTAIN UP! 2009 needs your help to support the biggest night in Buffalo Theatre.

ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE DIGITAL AND HARD COPY TO BE RECEIVED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL IN BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY BY JUNE 6, 2009.

Please fill out form here send e-mail digital file to: NANCY.YAGER@ARTSCOUNCILBUFFALO.ORG

Send Hard Copy to:

Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County
Attn: CURTAIN UP! 2009
700 Main Street #1
Buffalo, NY 14202

**Max file size for contest submission is 8MB. Submissions must be in .jpg format. Actual artwork for CURTAIN UP! 2009 has no file size limits.**

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