Let it Slide: this month includes Arts Alive!

August 7th at 6pm Arts Alive!’s director Jessica Gelter is taking the stage at the Showroom!

MC2 Charter School’s Let It Slide event is a wild night of improv storytelling and speechmaking combined with meme-inspired powerpoint presentations - and it's like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Plus it includes civic participation - audience members get to vote for their favorite story or storyteller. Back from its pandemic hiatus, this Let It Slide event is sharing the profits and love with several area nonprofits including - Hundred Nights, Keene Housing Kids Collaborative, MCVP, Culinary Journeys, MC2 Charter School, and Arts Alive!

“All of these nonprofits are awesome and everyone should come out to support this fun and interactive event - and see some of your community leaders try to not fail on stage.,” says Executive Director Jessica Gelter.

Any money raised by Arts Alive! event will be put into our mini grants for artists fund. We’ll be launching these mini grants this fall to help give artists a little boost towards making their creative dreams come true.

Get your tickets: https://thecolonial.org/event/let-it-slide/


Arts Alive! announces new mini-grant program

Arts Alive! announces new mini-grant program

Arts Alive! is offering $50-$250 mini-grants to artists and creative businesses in the Monadnock region. Applications are open from September 1-October 15, 2021. Grants will be awarded to projects that further either the artist or creative business - expanding their professional abilities or increasing how many people they can reach with arts experiences.

Call for Radically Rural Creative Placemaking!

Call for Radically Rural Creative Placemaking!

Radically Rural seeks submissions of Creative Placemaking projects in rural communities across the US and its territories. All projects will be posted to the virtual board of Radically Rural creative placemaking and all project submitters will receive discount tickets to Radically Rural. 10 selected projects will be invited to share their story as a 7 minute presentation during Session 3 of the Arts Track of the 2021 Radically Rural national summit. Presentations can be made from the summit location in Keene, New Hampshire, or virtually from a presenter’s chosen location. Presenters will be given FREE tickets to Radically Rural. The 2021 Summit is September 22-23, 2021.

Arts Alive! Receives National Grant

Arts Alive! Receives National Grant

Arts Alive! to Receive Funding and Assistance from National Endowment for the Arts

In its ongoing support of rural communities, the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Housing Assistance Council, announces the 2021 communities taking part in its national initiative, the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD). Keene is one of four communities selected for a multi-day design workshop to address small scale and tangible design and building projects in the downtown “Arts Corridor” concept. This project is being led by Arts Alive! in partnership with many individual artists and organizations.

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Arts Spotlight - Stories from the Pandemic: Rebecca Fredrickson & the Jaffrey Civic Center

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Arts Spotlight - Stories from the Pandemic: Rebecca Fredrickson & the Jaffrey Civic Center

Creatives are finding strength in community while dreaming and building towards the future. In this account, we hear from Rebecca Fredrickson. She is the new Executive Director of the Jaffery Civic Center. We welcome her to the Monadnock Region. We’re proud to share her vision for the Civic Center.

Arts Spotlight: Daniel Scully & The Showroom

Arts Spotlight: Daniel Scully & The Showroom

Creatives are finding strength in community and dreaming and building towards the future. In this account, we hear from Dan Scully. He is an architect who has made his mark on downtown Keene in many ways. He was also in our first cohort of Ewing Arts Awardees. We’re proud to share this story of creating The Showroom, the newest addition to the Colonial Performing Arts Center, from architect Dan Scully.

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Arts Spotlight - Stories from the Pandemic: Jazimina MacNeil

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Arts Spotlight - Stories from the Pandemic: Jazimina MacNeil

These continue to be unprecedented, uncertain times yet artists are finding strength in community and creativity. In this account, we hear from Jazimina MacNeil. She is a mezzo-soprano by trade and training, who finds herself wearing the hat of an actress and/or a writer from time to time. Lately, Jazimina has taken to calling herself a “creative catalyst” as well.

We’re proud to share this story of Jazimina, in her own words.

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Arts Spotlight - Stories from the Pandemic: Bryan Field

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Arts Spotlight - Stories from the Pandemic: Bryan Field

These are unprecedented times and artists are finding strength in community and creativity. In this account, we hear from Bryan Field, whose latest project involves gnome adoptions. Bryan grew up in England where, among other things, he studied woodwork and metal work in high school. He is now a penturner and mixed media artist living in Peterborough, NH. Much of his work is inspired by his love of the environment and his appreciation of Art Deco stained glass. An avid traveler, his globe-trotting experiences and the beauty of the local terrain enliven his work. He gives back to the community as a board member of Monadnock Art. During the pandemic he found a unique new project to explore his creativity and connection to community.

We’re proud to share this story of Bryan Field, in his own words.

Arts Alive!, 15 Eagle Court, Keene, NH 03431, United States6032830944office@monadnockartsalive.org

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Arts Alive is Supported By:

Arts Alive Creative Businesses & Individual Members, our Arts Ambassador Members, our generous individual and business donors and foundations such as the Bay and Paul Foundations, the Elzbieta and David Grove Private Foundation, the Eppes Jefferson Foundation, and the Lisa and David Pulver Family Foundation, Concord Bingo Too, and Cross Financial Corp., as well as:

501(c)3 Nonprofit Id: 26-4222193 || Arts Alive 15 Eagle Court, Keene, New Hampshire 03431

603-283-0944 || office@monadnockartsalive.org

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