Alberta Bair Theater receives $20,000 grant | Information

The next is a launch from the Alberta Bair Theater:

BILLINGS, Mont. — “Alberta Bair Theater is happy to announce it has been accepted by the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to obtain a Grants for Arts Initiatives award of $20,000.

This grant will help a gaggle of exhibits being offered by ABT, together with Dreamers – Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider (Sunday, January 22), Parsons Dance (Wednesday, February 22), The Performing Firm – The Three Musketeers (Tuesday, February 28), Ahn Trio & The James Sewell Ballet (Tuesday, March 14), and Harlem Quartet (Tuesday, March 28). This grant is one among 1,251 Grants for Arts Initiatives awards totaling practically $28.8 million that had been introduced by the NEA as a part of its first spherical of fiscal yr 2023 grants.

“The Nationwide Endowment for the Arts is proud to help arts tasks in communities nationwide,” stated NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “Initiatives reminiscent of this one with Alberta Bair Theater strengthen arts and cultural ecosystems, present equitable alternatives for arts participation and observe, and contribute to the well being of our communities and our economic system.”

“We’re at all times so appreciative of help from the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts. Bringing high-quality theater, dance, classical music, and jazz to the neighborhood is troublesome and sometimes very costly. Assist from the NEA confirms that the excellent performing arts are certainly for everybody no matter the place they dwell.” – Jan Dietrich, Government Director of Alberta Bair Theater

In celebrating its thirty fifth anniversary, ABT embraces the duty of offering each culturally numerous performing arts in addition to the numerous position ABT performs in offering management to advance Billings’ cultural neighborhood. By presenting a variety of dwell performing arts, ABT fosters alternatives for folks to be uncovered to quite a lot of artists and concepts, and have interaction in significant dialogue, thus enhancing the neighborhood’s high quality of life.

The venture’s performances and accompanying outreach encourage actions targeted on social, ethnic, and financial variety.

For extra info on different tasks included within the NEA’s grant announcement, go to arts.gov/information.

For extra info on these tasks and different ABT performances, go to albertabairtheater.org.”