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Stamford Arts Programs Receive City Funds

STAMFORD, Conn. — Art programs throughout Stamford received funds from the city Thursday evening as beneficiaries of the Community Arts Partnership Program.

“It shows the city of Stamford supports the performing arts,” said Carol Bryan, director of education for Stamford Center for the Arts.

Doled out through the mayor’s office, a total of $50,000 in funds were given to organizations throughout the city to provide arts programs to the public for fiscal year 2011-12. Recipients got $1,000 to $4,500 each.

“If we had an extra $2 [million] to $3 million it wouldn’t be enough,” Mayor Michael Pavia said during Thursday’s ceremony, saying his office did the best it could to help. The Community Arts Partnership Program is in its 12th consecutive year.

The grants allow the organizations to do many different projects, such as put on concerts and hold dance performances. The Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program will use its grant to capture modern history with a photography exhibit of Columbus Park.

“It’s one of the last historic parks in the city,” Renee Kahn, executive director of the Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program, said, describing the park's buildings, people and surroundings. The grant will allow the organization to give photographers a stipend for their work, which will be on display in the mayor’s gallery in May.

The organizations and the amount each received is as follows:

• Boys & Girls Club of Stamford: $4,000

• Connecticut Ballet Inc.: $4,500

• DanceFest: $2,500

• First United Methodist Church: $2,000

• Haitian American Professionals Association of Connecticut Inc.: $4,000

• Loft Artist Association: $4,500

• Lumina String Quartet: $4,000

• Namaskaar Foundation Inc.: $4,500

• The Ballet School of Stamford: $4,500

• The Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program: $3,000

• The Stamford Chorale: $2,500

• Treetops Chamber Music Society: $4,500

• Unitarian Universalist Society of Stamford: $1,000

• Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic: $4,500

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