Results tagged “departmentofculturalaffairs”

City Awards $1M in Arts Grants, Accepting New Apps

CityArts is the largest of four arts grant programs administered by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Other city-funded grant programs include the Neighborhood Arts Program and the Cultural Outreach Program, both of which provide assistance to educational arts programs directed towards the city's underserved communities. The two year NAP grants are given to individual teaching artists, while COP grants are awarded annually to organizations. Through NAP, the DCA is dispersing $64,177 to twenty-one people this year, and COP will provide twenty-seven groups a combined total of $593,333.

Heating Up The Global Music Scene

Tonight at the much anticipated and already ill-fated Morse Theatre, the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International will headline the First Annual Global Warming Party, curated by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs.

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