the Lincoln Cultural
Council
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For calendar year 2010 the Council received $4000 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. When combined with unused funds from prior grant cycles the Council had approximately $5148 to award in grants. The Council received 19 grant proposals this year and funded 10 of them. The grants which were funded are listed below in the section titled "2010 events sponsored by the Lincoln Cultural Council"
For Calendar year 2009, nine of the projects we approved were successfully completed. These included events staged by or for the Lincoln Council on Aging (Delvena Theater), Codman Farm (Yankee Notions), DeCordova Museum (Art in the Park) among others. Additionally many educational events at both the schools (Baba Brinkman) and in town (Pastel Painting and Photography Workshops) were conducted and help was given to special needs children in the form of a music enrichment educational program and in the form of assistance to groups at LSHRS to attend educational events (LS Chorus attendance at a Carnegie Hall Workshop and attendance by music students at a BSO open rehearsal). Also funded, in conjunction with the photography workshop, was an exhibit of photographic works by Lincoln residents of native Lincoln wildlife.
Lincoln Cultural Council Mission
The LCC promotes and supports community events and individual
artists’ endeavors. LCC members are townspeople who
are committed to artistic expression and creative works in
Lincoln. We are always seeking new members as well as ideas
for projects.
If you would like to join, please see the section below regarding New Members.
If you wish to learn how to submit a grant proposal please see the section below on How To Submit a Grant.
For information about Fiscal Year 2009 Grantees please see the 2009 Lincoln Cultural Council Grant Awards section below.
For a schedule of upcoming events sponsored by the Lincoln Cultural Council please see the Upcoming Events sponsored by the Lincoln Cultural Council section below. For a sampling of past events sponsored by the Lincoln Cultural Council please see the Past Events section below. Click here for info on how to Contact the LCC.
2010 events sponsored by the Lincoln Cultural Council
For additional information about the dates, times and places for performances and other LCC sponsored events, watch for announcements in the Lincoln Journal events listings, or check back here as this page is updated periodically.
- Choreography classes for the LSRHS Dance Troupe
- Jewels from the Lincoln Town Archives display at Lincoln Public Library
- SMART (Sci-Math-Art) Gals Family Night at the Discovery Museum in Acton on June 18th. This event designed to encourage young girl's interest in these fields via talks from role models in these areas.
- Guitar Songs from the Old Countries, a performance for the Lincoln Council on Aging by
- Katherine DeBoer and James Meadors
- And Now Mark Twain, a one man play about the life of Mark Twain performed by Richard Clark.
- American Women of Note, a performance by the Concord Women's Chorus of works by American women composers on May 8, 2010 at the First Parish Church in Concord.
- Musical History Tour with Flute, educational lecture and recital by Wendy Rolfe featuring flute music from four different centuries.
- History Alive Presentation, an educational presentation at LSRHS for 9th & 10th graders which focuses on the story of the escape from Nazi Germany of the family of singer songwriter Bernice Lewis.
- Scapes Sound Installation at DeCordova from July 13 to November 14. This is an interactive multimedia art project by Halsey Berglund which utilizes modern communications technologies built into the landscape of the sculpture garden and which evolves via the interaction of those viewing it.
Already staged, but paid for from 2010 Calendar Year funds:
- Travis Roy's September 22, 2009 talk at the Brooks School Auditorium on Living with Disability.
Grant Submission
The Lincoln Cultural Council is a local town council which is a part
of, and funded by, the Massachusets Cultural Council. Forms,
local policy guidelines, application procedures, tips for applicants and a list of Frequently
Asked Questions can be found at the Lincoln Cultural Council Program Information
site on the Massachusetts Cultural Council's official website. Please
read this information prior to submitting your grant application.
Completed grant applications and a signed copy of the local policy guidelines should be sent to the PO Box listed in our
Contact Info found elsewhere on this page. If,
after reading the info at the Massachusetts Cultural Council website,
you still have questions you can send them to the email address also
listed there. In addition a public information session will be held
sometime in September where members of the LCC will be present to
answer any questions you may have. The exact place, date and time of
this session are still to be determined so please check back here for
details.
Past events sponsored by the Lincoln Cultural Council which have helped to enrich our community
These are just some of the programs held in Lincoln over the past few years which were funded by grants from the Lincoln Cultural Council:
- Buccaneers of Buzz: Celebrating the Honey Bee, a multimedia event and concert was presented by Rialto Arts, to help bring beekeepers together with the community and teach the importance of Honey Bees in providing the abundant supplies of fruits ond other food we enjoy in our country.
- Lincoln Free to Explore Weekend at the Discovery Museums, Acton, in celebration of the Museum’s 25th Anniversary.
- Writing workshop led by Newbery award-winning children’s book author
Linda Sue Park.
- Pastel Workshops in 2008 & 2009 led by Gregory Maichack. This was a hands-on instructional session on pastel drawing held at the Lincoln Library
- The Lincoln Minutemen “Lincoln Colonial
History Day in the National Park,” an educational
and celebratory event in Minuteman National Historical Park
- Wildlife Photography Workshops in 2008 & 2009. Held in conjunction with a Photo Exhibit of works by Lincoln artists conducted at the end of the year these two part workshops were held to teach tips and tricks to help Lincoln residents improve their photography skills. 2008 was a wildlife photography workshop and 2009 was a macro plant photography workshop. Part one of each workshop was a classroom session and part two was an outdoor photography field session.
- Yankee Notions performance of folk music at the 2009 Codman Farm Festival
- Travis Roy on Living with Disability. Travis Roy is the Boston University men’s ice hockey player who slid into the boards 11 seconds into his first appearance on the ice in an NCAA game, cracking his 4th vertebra and leaving him a quadriplegic. Mr. Roy shared his experiences with adversity speaking about how the end of his dream of playing ice hockey led to the rebirth of hope in him. He addressed the day to day challenges faced by people with disabilities to obstacles that are minor to those without disabilities, and how he achieve what at first appeared to be unattainable goals and how this culminated in the publication of a book written by him about his life and the creation by him of a foundation to help other disabled people.
Lincoln Cultural Council Members
Amy Goodwin, Barbara Low, Susan Welsh, Sarah Bishop, Joanie Schaffner, Melinda Abraham, Jay Hersh(chair)
and Maybe You???
Join the Lincoln Cultural Council
- Are you creative and/or self expressive?
- Are you an Artist, Musician, Writer or other type of performer?
- Or do you just enjoy the work of other creative individuals?
- Would you like to help bring more cultural events to Lincoln, or promote and expand the creative community of our town?
If so then please consider becoming a member of the Lincoln
Cultural Council. You do not need to be an artist, musician, writer,
etc. to join. All you need is a desire to help. The council's main
mission (see above) is to promote and support
community events and individual artists’ endeavors. This is principally
accomplished via the solicitation and review of proposals for grants
to sponsor cultural activities in Lincoln. Such grants can include
funding the work of artists, musicians, writers, etc. either directly,
via sponsorship of performances, or indirectly via funding for classes,
lectures or other activities which help encourage Lincoln residents to
engage in creative activities.
Proposals are due in the fall of each year. After the
proposal submission deadline, Lincoln Cultural Council members are
provided with copies of the proposals to review. The Council then meets
to discuss the grant proposals and select those which will be funded.
In addition to our main mission of reviewing grant proposals,
each Council member is assigned the responsibility of being the contact
person for one or more grantees. The Council members help the grantees
to successfully complete the work, exhibit, event, etc. proposed in the
grant. Since grantees may often be performers from outside Lincoln this
usually in the form of providing local knowledge such as assisting in
venue location and/or scheduling, or referral to appropriate contact
persons within various groups in Lincoln or the town government.
Council members also assist in the important task of verifying that the
grantees properly publicize the event, especially with regard to
ensuring that the Lincoln Cultural Council and Massachusetts Cultural
Council are properly credited for their role in supporting the grantee.
It is helpful, but not necessary, for the Council member to attend the
grantee's event.
Finally, from time to time, the Council may also stage its own
events. One such event is an exhibit of Lincoln artists in the main
gallery of the Lincoln Library. Participation of Council members is key
to making this event successful.
If you have additional questions or think you might be interested in joining the Lincoln Cultural Council please see the contacts section of this page.
Also please note that because the Lincoln Cultural Council is
an official Council of the Town of Lincoln, membership on the Council
is subject to the application to, and approval by, the Lincoln Board of
Selectmen. If appointed, members should be willing to serve at least
one three year term, be sworn in by the Lincoln Town Clerk and complete
a short online basic training program at the Massachussets Cultural
Council website.
Contact the LCC
Your questions, ideas, and suggestions are welcome! Please
contact us by email or US Postal mail:
lcc@doctorbeer.com
Lincoln Cultural Council
P.O. Box 426
Lincoln, MA 01773
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