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COXSACKIE — Greene County lawmakers were invited Wednesday to a June 25 reception here to be held at the Victorian Horse Barn on the grounds of the Greene County Historical Society’s Bronck House Museum. The invitation came from Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts, (GCCA), at the legislature’s regular meeting at the Greene County Office Building.

She particularly invited Legislature Chairman Wayne Speenburgh to the reception, adding that she hoped all the legislators would be able to attend.

GCCA will host its 2008 County Initiative and Decentralization New York State Council on the Arts “re-grant” award recipients at the reception which will be held from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. at the Bronck House grounds.

The grants program is a part of the the New York State Council on the Arts, (NYSCA), and the State and Local Partnership Program administered in the county by the GCCA. The program “brings high quality and accessible arts’ programming to county residents from ages eight to 88,” noted Stamer.

The County Initiative Program, noted Stamer, regrants $20,000 to established arts and cultural organizations in Greene County.

“The reception will feature light fare and for those who are interested, a short tour of the oldest dwelling in Upstate New York, the Bronck House, itself.

The invitation was issued by Collete Lemmon, Twin Counties Cultural Fund, and by Stamer.

Greene County received 23 requests totaling $75,902, almost twice the amount of available re-grant funds, reported Stamer. Receiving $25,850 were 22 organizations under the Decentralization Program.

The organizations and awards included: All Arts Matter, $1,400 for poetry; Athens Cultural Center and Jeanne Heiberg, $900 for writing and clay sculpture workshops; Athens Cultural Center and Bonnie Mion, $900 for presentations on the history of Middle Eastern dance; Cairo Public Library, $1,300 for a children’s art history class, tribal belly dance and water color programs; Catskill Community Center, $1,000 for self-portrait photography, tap dance and drawing and painting classes; Catskill Mountain Wolf Center and Joseph Capone, $1,300 for locally staffed production of “Amadeus.”

Others were: Catskill and Palenville Libraries, $1,700 for “Shakin’ Up Shakespeare,” advanced digital photography and story-telling programs; Community of Windham Foundation, $900 for lectures, demonstrations and exhibit on historical photography; the D.R. Evarts Library, $1,300 for weaving children’s book illustration and graphic novel workshops; Greenville Public Library, $1,400 for digital photography, graphic novel workshop, creative writing and other arts; Heart of Catskill and David Woodin, $1,800 for a classical music concert; Heermance Memorial Library, $1,300 for art exhibits and a quilting class; Love ‘N Care Pet Sanctuary, East Durham, and Margo Muller, $800 for a children’s theater project; Mountain Top Historical Society, $1,000 for guest artists; Pleshakov Music Center, $1,600 for lecture/concerts at the piano museum in Hunter; Schoharie Creek Players, $1,200 for a “Steel Magnolias” production; Town of Catskill, Cindy Putorti and Thin Edge Films, $1,000 for a film project about local World War II veterans produced by local teenagers; Town of Hunter and Kevin VanHentenryck, $1,000 for an outdoor stone carving class in Hunter, and Town of Jewett and Vera Gaidoch, $1,100 for a classical music concert and exhibit of local artists’ works.

Others were: the Ulster-Greene ARC, $1,100 for visual arts programs for developmentally disabled adults; Windham Arts Alliance, $750 for sandcastle sculpture program and Artfest ‘08, and the Windham Public Library, $1,100 for youth theater, Chinese brush painting, and origami programs.

Greene County Initiative Program Grants and the amounts went to: Bronck Museum, $2,300 to continue, expand and promote cultural educational and arts programming; Catskill Mountain Foundation, $3,000 towards artist fees and related costs for performing arts program in their 10th anniversary year and for the Greene Arts Festival; Free103point9 Wave Radio, $1,800 for its summer performance series; Greene Room Players, $1,700 for support of the Reel Teens Festival; Horton by the Stream, Eka Park, $1,500 towards artists’ fees; Inter-Cities Performing Arts, $1,000 for the Altamura Summer Music Festival; Irish American Heritage Museum, $1,000 for the “Irish in Music” exhibit; MJQ Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, $1,800 towards artist fees; Music & Art Centre of Greene County, $3,000 towards its 2008 Music at Grazhda concert series a the Grazhda in Jewett Center; Planet Arts, $1,500 to support a jazz series at the Athens Cultural Center; Thomas Cole National Historic Site-Cedar Grove, $2,500 in support of the 2008 exhibit “The Oil Sketch: Hudson River School,” and the Windham Chamber Music Festival, $2,400 in support of its 2008 concert series in Windham.

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