PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE MEDWAY CULTURAL COUNCIL OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS
(some awards are only partial funding of request)
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FY200y Funding Cycle (2006-2007)

APPROVED  ($4920)
AMOUNT    WHO, WHAT


$ 550     Davis Bates: Rhythms of the World Stories and Songs for Everyone
$ 250     Franklin Performing Arts Center:  Into the Woods
$ 200     Greater Milford Ballet: The Nutcracker
$ 250     Massachusetts Audubon Society:  Interpretive Exhibits
$ 150     Medway Council on Aging:  Musical Theatre Series
$ 500     Medway Parks Commission:  Park Summer Concert Series
$ 600     Medway Pride Day:  Musical Performance at Medway Pride Day
$ 175     Medway Public Library:  Musical Holiday Storytime with Elaine Kessler
$ 450     Southcoast Historical Associates:  Colonial Life in 18th Century      
$ 595     Southeastern Massachusetts Community Concert Band: concert in Choate Park
$ 450     Bob Thomas: When the Animals Danced (stories and dance)
$ 750     Bob Thomas: The Roots of American Dance (Middle School program)



FY2006 Funding Cycle (2005-2006)

APPROVED  ($2,470)
AMOUNT    WHO, WHAT  
 
$ 200     Southcoast Historical Associates:  Colonial Life in 18th Century      
$ 350     Medway Public Library:  Dramatic Arts Workshop (Nan Rumpf) 
$ 360     Medway Public Library:  Diane Edgecomb                     
$ 300     Medway Parks Commission:  Summer Concert Series              
$  40     Franklin Performing Arts:  Cinderella                          
$ 150     Iyawata Schneider & Hibiscus Rose:  The Bewitching Brokers             
$  40     Claflin Hill:  Symphony Orchestra                 
$ 350     Root, John:  Wild Edible Plants                 
$  40     Greater Milford Ballet:  The Nutcracker Ballet               
$  40     Blackstone Valley Community Concert Band
$ 500     Southeastern Massachusetts Community Concert Band: concert in Choate Park
$ 100     Mass Audubon Society:  Lecture Series for Adults


FY2005 Funding Cycle (2004-2005)
(Appropriated $2000 from this year's funds, $100 from previous year)

APPROVED
AMOUNT    WHO, WHAT
$ 200     Medway Council on Aging:  Happy Birthday (Play)
$ 100     Franklin Performing Arts Company: Alice in Wonderland 
$ 200     Michael Tougias: Night of the Blizzard (Lecture)
$ 200     Richard L. Hamelin: Pied Potter Hamelin's Magical Wheel
$ 300     Project Concern: Hip-Hip dance performance
$ 200     Medway Public Library: Stories and Songs with Jay Mantika
$ 250     Medway Public Library: The Places You'll Go (Bates/Tincknell)
$ 400     SE MA Community Concert Band: Summer Concert at Choate Park
$ 150     Mass Audubon Society: Big Night
$ 100     Greater Milford Ballet Association (Nutcracker)


FY2004 Funding Cycle (2003-2004)

APPROVED
AMOUNT    WHO, WHAT
$ 100     Claflin Hill: symphony series in Milford
$ 200     Friends of the Library: Tanglewood Marionettes
$ 200     Medway Council on Aging: Creative Writing workshop series
$ 300     Project Concern: Hip-Hip dance performance
$ 200     Medway Public Library: Activated Storytellers
$ 300     Medway Public Library: Ben Rudnick and Friends family concert
$ 280     Lisa [Manning] and Friends: performance at the Senior Center
$ 400     SE MA Community Concert Band: Summer Concert at Choate Park


FY2003 Funding Cycle (2002-2003)

(Appropriated $2000 from this year's funds, $250 from previous years)

$ 300      Project Concern: Hip-Hip dance performance at Medway Pride Day
$ 200      Medway Public Library: Higgins Armory Museum show
$ 300      Medway Public Library: Imagine That
$ 200      Friends of the Library: Hampstead Players "Alice in Wonderland"
$ 300      Friends of the Library: Southern Rail Bluegrass Concert
$ 250      Bob Thomas: Generations, Grandma, Vaudeville & Me 
                  intergenerational storytelling at the Senior Center
$ 150      Quintessential Brass: Summer Concert at Millis park (CANCELLED)
$ 475      SE MA Community Concert Band: Summer Concert at Choate Park
$  75      Claflin Hill: orchestral concert series in Milford


FY2002 Funding Cycle (2001-2002):

$ 300      Council on Aging, Memoir Writing Workshop
$ 250      Friends of the Library, Hampstead Players
$ 250      Friends of the Library, Irish Music and Stories
$ 350      Medway Public Library, Tanglewood Marionettes
$ 350      Medway Public Library, Peter and Ellen Allard
$ 600      SE MA Community Concert Band, Concert at the Park
$ 420      Medway Historical Society, Conservation
$ 250      MA Audubon Society, Amphibians program
$ 250      John Root, performance at Medway Country Manor
$ 300      Medway Players, dimmer pack for stage lighting
$ 250      Council on Aging, Humor Workshop
$ 600      Project Concern, "Hip-Hop Dance Performance" at Pride Day
$ 450      Claflin Hill, concert series at Milford Town Hall
$ 300      Made in the Shade jazz band performance



FY2001 Funding Cycle (2000-2001):

$500       Southeastern Massachusetts Community Concert Band
               "Annual Concert Series," Choate Park Medway performance
$462      Medway Players "Replacement of old two strip light fixtures"
               at Library
$325      Medway Council on Aging, "Celebrating New England: Stories and Songs
               for Everyone," Davis Bates
$500      Project Concern, "Hip-hop dance presentation" at Pride Day
$250      Medway Public Library, 
              "Tom & Debbie O'Carroll: The Magic & Music of Ireland"
$250      Medway Public Library, "Rick Goldin Family Concert"
$350      Friends of the Medway Public Library, "Gerwick Puppets: Aladdin"
$350     John Root, "Intergenerational Library Gaslight Era Concert"
$100     The Greater Milford Artists' Guild, "Juried Art Exhibition" 
$250     "Claflin Hill Symphony Concert"
$100     The Greater Milford Artists' Guild, "Art & Flowers Exhibition" (CANCELLED)
$350     Maria L. Roberts, "Teaching Story and Origami"
$250     Franklin Performing Arts Company, "The Sound of Music"
$200     Metrowest Youth Symphony Orchestra, "MetYSO Concert Series"
$300     Neponset Choral Society, "2000-2001 Concert Season"
$250     Massachusetts Audubon Society, "Fall Fair 2001"


FY2000 Funding Cycle (1999-2000):

Yankee Notions folk concert at Choate Park for Summer 2000 (extension)
$225 Atwater-Donnelly, "The mountain dulcimer: American folk music"
                        at the middle school
$500  Friends of the Medway, Storytelling series at Library
      (Judy Bernstein, "Hail to the Ladies" show about First Ladies;
       Kate Carney as frontier doctor Bethenia Owens-Adair;
       Jeanne Donato's Truly Terrifying Tales (not for children)
$75   Greater Milford Artists' Guild, "25th Annual Art Exhibition"
$400  Maria Roberts, "Teaching Storytelling and Origami" at schools
$250  Medway Public Library: "Tanglewood Marionettes: Cinderella"
$250  Medway Public Library: "The Places You'll Go: Travelling Through 
                                                    Story & Song."
$400 Southeastern Massachusetts Community Concert Band (Wind Symphony);
     Choate park concert
$350  Michael Tougias Charles River presentation at the Senior Center
$350  MA Audubon Society "Earth Day 2000"
$385  Bob Thomas, "Paul Bunyan's Polka Party (Stories & Dances)" at Library
$450  John Root, concert at Senior Center
$100  Southeastern Massachusetts Community Wind Symphony (Concert Band),
      "Community Instrumental Music Development"
$500 Project Concern, "Hip-Hop Dance Performance" at Medway Pride Day
$250 Alicia Quintano, "From Alaska to the Stars, Tales of Old & New Frontiers"
                       at the library
$335 Ruth Harcovitz, singing performance at the Senior Center


FY1999 Funding Cycle (1998-1999):

Home and School Association "Louisa May Alcott"
Medway Middle School - trip to Tongas Center
Medway Middle School - trip to Higgins Armory
Friends of the Medway Public Library - Poobly Greegy Puppet Theater
Medway Library - Ellen Block "West of the Moon"
Medway Library - Bagpipers and Spinning Wheels "Stories and Songs"
Council on Aging - Ruth Harcovitz, soprano
John Root Concert
Hopkinton Chamber Orchestra for opening of renovated Medway Library
Southeastern Community Concert Band
Greater Milford Artist Guild Exhibit & Awards at Milford Library
Michael Tougias "Native American / King Philip's War"
Bob Thomas - Story and Dance "The Animals Danced"
Neponset Choral Society
Hip-Hop Dance Company - Jazz-Rap-Modern Dance
Greater Milford Ballet