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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2004-186 RESOLUTION NO. 2004-186 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA APPROVING THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS TASK FORCE'S SELECTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2004/2005 PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS GRANT RECIPIENTS AND THEIR MONETARY GRANT AWARD, TOTALING $45,000 WHEREAS, in 1997, the City Council approved a sublease with the House of Blues Concerts, Inc. (fonnerly Universal Concerts) that established a process whereby ticket sales proceeds at the Coors Amphitheater would be paid to the City and utilized for a Perfonning and Visual Arts Fund; and WHEREAS, this fund is to be used for arts grants to the Chula Vista community for the purpose of promoting and stimulating the growth of perfonning and cultural arts grant awards; and WHEREAS, this year the Office of Cultural Arts received $45,171 from the House of Blues for the 2003 Concert Series; and WHEREAS, as called for in the sublease, a Perfonning and Visual Arts Task Force was established and annually makes recommendations to the City Council regarding the arts grant awards; and WHEREAS, the Task Force is assisted by the Office of Cultural Arts, which fonnally conducts the grant application process; and WHEREAS, the Task Force has reviewed the Fiscal Year 2004/2005 applications and has made its recommendations. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby approve the Perfonning and Visual Arts Task Force's selection of the Fiscal Year 2004/2005 Perfonning and Visual Arts Grant recipients (set forth in Exhibit A) and their monetary grant award totaling $45,000. Presented by Approved as to fonn by (^~ Ann Moore City Attorney Resolution 2004-186 Page 2 PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City ofChula Vista, California, this 8th day of June, 2004, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers: NAYS: Councilmembers: ABSENT: Councilmembers: ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: Davis, McCann, Salas and Padilla None None Rindone ATTEST: ~p~þ ~t'/I .~' r. --- Susan Bigelow, CMC, Cit lerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO CITY OF CHULA VISTA I, Susan Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certifY that the foregoing Resolution No. 2004-186 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 8th day of June, 2004. Executed this 8th day of June, 2004. ~'1""'~ Susan Bigelow, CMC, City erk EXHIBIT A FY 2004-2005 Performine and Visual Arts Grant Recipients Art Now! $1,750 To provide arts education in collaboration with the Chula Vista MAAC Project in verbal and digital irnaging processes to local residents for better methods of expressing their ideas, opinions on issues that are important their lives in an artistic manner. Bonita Artist Potpourri $1,200 To provide for community arts workshops, summer children's classes and their annual exhibition held at the Rosemary Lane Galeria. Bonita Historical Society $750 To provide the community and region with an exhibition and workshops that traces the heritage of a founding community in the South Bay and Native Americans of the South Bay and their crafts and arts who inhabited the Sweetwater Valley. Bonita Vista High School "Sound Unlimited" $1,200 To provide funding for adjudicators at "For Ladies Only" show choir competition. This annual competition is held in Chula Vista at the Ruth Chapman Center for the Perfonning Arts and in a one-day event Bonitafest Melodrama $2,500 To provide funding for a community musical-melodrama based on local history appropriate for multigenerational, culturally diverse family audiences. California Ballet/Dance $2,500 To provide dance, drama, stagecraft and production methods in the creation of a story and ballet, with the five middle schools ofChula Vista. Teaching dance and dance methods as required by the new dance education standards of the State of California and encouraging young men to dance through the relationship to athletics. Todd Caschett $1,200 To provide funds for community workshops held at Southwestern College in traditional Haitian Vodun Practices a study of spirituality brought to the islands by slaves from West Africa through its musical rhythms, drumming and dance. ChuIa Vista Art Guild $1,030 Expanding "Portrait of the Community" concept and exhibition to local and regional artist using the City and its various neighborhoods, citizen as the source of images that show ChuIa Vista in a positive manner and raise the awareness about the community. ChuIa Vista Cultural Arts Commission $1,500 To provide funds to cover the cost of design and printing of the program for "Taste of the Arts, by the Bay" Chula Vista's signature cultural event. EXHIBIT A FY 2004-2005 Performine and Visual Arts Grant Recipients ChuIa Vista Cultural Arts Commission $750 To provide funds to cover the cost of artist fees for one concert that is part of the annual ChuIa Vista "Music In The Park, a summer concert series" ChuIa Vista Downtown Business Association $2,000 To provide a continued opportunity for local artist to design and paint the surfaces of the utility boxes on Third Avenue. The funds will provide paint, equipment and stipend for this enhancement in the redevelopment process of Downtown Chula Vista. ChuIa Vista High School for Creative & Performing Arts $1,500 To expand the Chula Vista Band Review and increase the promotion and awareness of this event from a one day event to two days. It is the largest sweepstakes in marching event in the State of California. It has a strong economic value to the community in the amount of bands and guest it brings to the City. Chula Vista High School "Main Attraction" $1,500 To fund the cost of program design and printing for the Southern California Perfonnance Show Choir Invitational that will be held in Chula Vista at the Ruth Chapman Performing Arts Center. This two-day event attracts large crowds and 20 schools participate in this event. Friends of the ChuIa Vista Civic Center Library $2,000 To provide funding for the pIacernent of Public ArtIScuIpture in front of the library in the "Temporary Pad/Loan" project. Friends of the South ChuIa Vista Library/Literacy Team $2,500 To present a South Chula Vista Branch Library Cultural Arts Festival and partnering with Centro Hispanoamericano de Guitarra and held in the Rosemary Lane Galeria. The series will include classical, folk and multi-cultural dance presentations and promote the visual art exhibitions held in the Galeria. Hilltop High School Band Boosters $2,000 To provide funding for preparation of band students for solo and ensemble festivals and enhancing band unit perfonnance for community/public concerts and marching season. Hilltop High School Winter Guard $1,500 To provide funding for enhanced instructional classes in dance, drill techniques in flags, rifles & sabers dramatic choreography. Imagination Express...AII-Board! $2,500 To provide artistic and educational interactive assemblies to five Chula Vista Elementary and five Middle Schools. Students will be engaged with stylized and slow motion movements or fast paced slapstick comedy to excite their minds. EXHIBIT A FY 2004-2005 Performine and Visual Arts Grant Recipients Installation Gallery $1,750 To provide artist and integrate arts education into Finney Elementary School's curriculum and instructional programs. This project provides quality time during the school day for artist and teachers to plan for incorporating arts learning with classroom instruction. Mariachi Scholarship Foundation $1,000 To provide promotional materials and increase the awareness for Mariachi Month in the City ofChula Vista. Museum of Photographic Arts $1,670 To provide arts education in the Chura Vista Elementary School District to students and staff with instruction in photographic techniques and procedures and museum education. Bharvani Peesapath $1,000 To provide funds for the continued studies of Kuchipudi and Bharata Natyam classical Indian dance styles in India. Then presenting workshops and perfonnances with her grandmother as part of the South Chula Vista Library's Cultural Arts Festival. Playwrights Projects $1,800 To provide language arts, drama, and perfonnance skills to Castle Park High School and Middle Schools to increase self awareness and confidence using drama as a key factor to learning and the curriculum. San Diego Junior Theatre $1,800 To provide increased promotions for the Chula Vista branch/classes during the 2004- 2005 seasons. San Diego Opera $2,500 To provide a music/enrichment program to the five middle schools in Chula Vista. Students will work with the Opera Ensemble program with instruction about opera singing, acting, music language, theater arts, make-up, costuming and the new music education standards of the State of California. Southwestern College Concert Choir $1,100 To present and develop a production/concert of Haydn's 3rd Mass. The project consists of students, community members and full orchestra accompanying the performances. The Old Globe Theater $2,500 To provide a language arts and drama program to 9th grade students using Shakespeare's Romero & Julieta as the learning device and the development of the production/play to be presented in various parks in the City of Chula Vista.