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Local Arts Organizations and Artists to Be Awarded Grants

ArtsWestchester is to award 39 Arts Alive and Arts Partners Challenge Grants to Westchester-based arts organizations and artists.

The arts are alive and well in Westchester and, thanks to the Arts Alive awards, it’ll stay that way.

According to a press release, on Friday, Feb. 3 members of the New York State Legislative delegation will gather with ArtsWestchester’s Board of Trustees to award more than $39,000 in ArtsWestchester’s Arts Alive Grants and $11,100 in Arts Partners Challenge Grants to more than 39 local arts organizations, artists and special projects.

The variety of Arts Alive projects that will receive funding this year range from outdoor heritage festivals and concerts in parks, to painting workshops, to community theater productions and fully-staged operas, to a presentation of Gospel Choirs.

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Rivertowns area recipients include Red Monkey Theater Group, Indian American Cultural Association of Westchester and Dobbs Ferry Public Library.

For a complete list of the organizations and artists receiving awards, visit artswestchester.org.

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The Awards Breakfast will be held at 9:30 a.m. in the Grand Banking Room of ArtsWestchester’s Arts Exchange building located at 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY. For more information, visit www.artsw.org/artsalive.

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