Annual Meeting & Grant Awards Presentation

Annual Meeting & Grant Awards Presentation

More than 10 years in support of Broward County s best visual and performing arts organizations

Funding Arts Broward, FAB!, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and cultivating the arts in Broward County. 100% of all annual membership fees goes toward funding grants. Through a competitive grant process, annual awards are made to a myriad of non-profit visual and performing arts organizations in Broward County. This is a participatory endeavor. Members volunteer to review grant applications, conduct site visits, evaluate and recommend funding for specific projects. Grantees are then selected by a vote of the FAB! membership. Save the Dates Be part of FAB! and join us for lunch. Luncheons are held in downtown Fort Lauderdale. November 17, 2014 January 12, 2015 April 20, 2015 May 18, 2015

Letter to Members

Dear FAB! Members and Friends, For the past year we have been celebrating our 10th anniversary season, which is culminating with this year s awards. It s astounding, and a source of great pride, that we mark this milestone having surpassed even the most idealistic imaginings of our founding members by awarding more than $2 million to Broward County arts organizations. The entire community has benefited from this vision that became a reality through the individual efforts of each and every FAB! member. Our members come from Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties and our ranks have grown to include men and corporate members. Our extremely rigorous grant screening process, which is administered and manned by FAB! members, provides assurance that your contributions are awarded consistent with our funding policies and criteria. And, as has always been our policy, 100% of all annual membership payments goes into our grant pool. We thank each and every one of you because without you there would be no FAB! We would like to especially acknowledge a particular group of women with whom the original vision was shared in 2003 and they said, Yes! Count us in! our Founding Members. Congratulations to all of us!!! With sincere appreciation, Drazia Rubenstein President Francie Bishop Good Founding Chair

FAB! Funding Making a Difference To date, Funding Arts Broward has awarded more than $2 million to over 30 Broward County arts organizations.

Our mission is Transforming girls lives through musical excellence, and that is what we strive for each day. Without the support of your organization, gathering the funds to make this possible for our girls and the community would be a truly difficult challenge. We are deeply grateful that FAB! recognizes the value of the Girl Choir to the South Florida community and continues to generously support the GCSF. Thank you! - Wallis Peterson, Artistic Director The Girl Choir of South Florida FAB! is an incredible partner with the arts in Broward County and with the Coral Springs Museum of Art. Over the past decade, FAB! has enabled us to fund Artist-in-Residences to expand our arts in education programming impacting thousands of area children, we have established a performing arts program, the Saturday Chautauqua Series, to bring performances into the Museum setting, expanding our cultural diversity in the northwest corridor. And we are most excited to be able to bring digital and electronic arts programming to the Museum and surrounding area through the FAB! Knight New Work Award program. This grant has enabled us to turn a corner for the Museum with digital and electronic art classes and programs. Thanks to this award, we are now able to provide these new opportunities for our community making us even more relevant to current trends in art production and teaching a part of STEM through art and technology. We cannot thank you enough for your vision and generosity! Bryan W. Knicely, Executive Director Coral springs Museum of Art The FAB! grant for our Spring concert series was vital to our ability to produce the finest concert we have performed in our 11-year history. The quality of our orchestra and soloist underscored the commitment of our new artistic director/conductor to performing programs of uncompromised quality. Our audiences went wild! We believe this concert was a turning point in the life of our organization and thank you for helping make it possible. - Holly Strawbridge, President Master Chorale of South Florida Without FAB s assistance with the Knight New Work Award, Seraphic Fire would have never been able to commission an incredible new completion to Mozart s Requiem by Gregory Spears. In an age where partisan politics is more and more interfering with governmental grant funding, FAB has presented a wonderful private model of arts funding that is reliable, stable, and personal. Without FAB, our programs in Broward would most certainly be less adventurous and less exciting for our audiences. Thank you for all that you do for us! -Joey Quigley, Managing Director Seraphic Fire

The FAB! 2015 Grant Recipients are...

Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition & Winners Concert Ars Flores will give the opportunity to gifted high school and college musicians to showcase their solo pieces with the orchestra in the 14th Annual Young Artists Concerto Competition and Winners Concert. The musicians will compete and give performances open to the public at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center at NSU, including a free Concert for young children. $7,500 Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Jose Alvarez: As Far as the I Can See The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood will host artist Jose Alvarez s exhibition, As Far As the I Can See, utilizing photographs, animations, paintings, wall murals, work on paper, and sculpture to explore the human desire for knowledge and transformation. $9,600 Funding Partner: The Hudson Family Foundation Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida Arts Ballet s digitally enhanced Harlequinade Arts Ballet will use their grant to upgrade the repertoire production of Harlequinade utilizing digital effects. Two performances will be held at the Amaturo Theater. $8,000 Funding Partner: Alice and Joe Smith Brazilian Voices* Brazilian Voices From Brazil to the World Brazilian Voices will present an educational and cultural program, From Brazil to the World in two performances at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center. The program will include singers, musicians and dancers. $5,000 Funding Partner: Casa D Angelo new grantee*

Broward Performing Arts Foundation Alvin Ailey: Back in Broward The Broward Center for the Performing Arts will host the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a fabled dance troupe that combines African American culture experiences with modern American ballet traditions, at six performances at the Broward Center. $12,000 Funding Partner: Bonnie E. Eletz Chameleon Musicians* The Spring Concerts Chameleon Musicians will present their 13th season of classical Chamber Music in three concerts on Sunday afternoons at the Josephine S. Leiser Opera Center, Ft. Lauderdale. $2,000 City Theatre 20th Annual Summer Shorts: America s Short Play Festival City Theatre will present the 20th Annual Summer Shorts including Shorts Gone Wild and Shorts 4 Kids as well as City Reads For Citywrights at a variety of Broward County venues. $5,800 Coral Springs Museum of Art Chautauqua 2015 Series of Visual and Performing Arts The museum brings together an infusion of culture and entertainment with its annual Saturday Chautauqua Series of Visual and Performing Arts, celebrating the cultural diversity of Broward County s performing artists. $6,400 Funding Partner: David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation

Developing Dreams Foundation (formerly Pablo Malco Foundation) P.A.P. - Performing Arts Politics Pablo Malco will present a fun, family oriented musical production, Performing Arts Politics, showcasing professional entertainers morphing into interesting characters while singing and dancing, to land jobs on Broadway. $8,000 Funding Partner: The Burwick-Mills Group Fantasy Theatre Factory Cultural Arts Programs for Community Audiences Fantasy Theatre s Cultural Arts for Community Audiences will provide 35 performances for family audiences in a variety of Broward venues, including a children s hospital. $5,800 Funding Partner: Beaux Arts Florida Grand Opera Puccini s Madame Butterfly Florida Grand Opera will present one of the best-loved operas, Puccini s Madame Butterfly, in two performances at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. $8,500 Funding Partner: Nova Southeastern University

Florida Youth Orchestra Spotlight Family Concert 2015 FYO will present a family concert, performed by over 200 of the county s most gifted young musicians at Coral Springs Center for the Arts. $7,500 Funding Partner: Craig Zinn Automotive Group Florida s Singing Sons Boychoir Florida s Singing Sons Boychoir Spring Concert Florida s Singing Sons will present their Spring Concert at the Parker Playhouse culminating months of intensive music education with approximately 150 boys in four choirs. $7,000 Funding Partner: Halmos Holding Fort Lauderdale Children s Theatre FLCT presents The Wiz FLCT will present The Wiz, a musical consisting of a lively mix of rock, gospel, and soul to be held at Bailey Hall in Davie. $5,800 Funding Partner: Peck Foundation Gay Men s Chorus of South Florida* Gay Men s Chorus of South Florida Season Five Concert Series The Gay Men s Chorus will present three concerts, open to the public, of traditional chorus repertoire and music from various world cultures at the Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale. $6,700 Funding Partner: Leslie Brown Memorial Fund

Girls Club Programming for New Narratives: The Moment, The Backdrop and The Persona Girls Club will present New Narratives: The Moment, The Backdrop, and The Persona, an exhibition, a catalog and public programming exploring narrative and story-based art by women. $6,400 Funding Partner: Northern Trust Gold Coast Jazz Society 2015 Winter/Spring Jazz Project Gold Coast Jazz Society will present five concerts at the Amaturo Theater, featuring world-class artists, including Arturo Sandoval, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. One free jazz concert will be held in Coral Springs. $7,500 Funding Partner: The Kresge Foundation Master Chorale of South Florida Bach & the Masters of Leipzig Master Chorale will present Bach and the Masters of Leipzig in a concert at the First Presbyterian Church in Pompano Beach. They will collaborate with the Symphonia Orchestra to present diverse musical selections by Bach and his contemporaries. $6,600

Miami City Ballet The Concert Miami City Ballet will present its Broward premiere of The Concert. There will be four performances set to nine of Chopin s opuses. It humorously portrays a concert audience overcome by the throes of the music as their minds wander and are led to dance. $12,000 Funding Partner: BBX Capital Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale Haiti From Within & Without The museum will host the exhibition, Haiti From Within & Without, focusing on the history of photography of Haiti and its engagement with the nation s history, culture, politics and art. $9,600 Old Dillard Foundation 2015 Cannonball Jazz Series Old Dillard Foundation will present local musicians in three mini-concerts at the Old Dillard Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, and one full concert that celebrates the birthday of legendary jazz musician Julian Cannonball Adderly at a larger local venue. $7,500 Seraphic Fire 2014-2015 Broward County Spring Season Seraphic Fire will present the professional chamber choir in five concerts of choral and orchestral works from 17th Century Baroque compositions to 20th Century masterpieces. The performances will be held in All Saints Episcopal Church in Ft. Lauderdale. $10,000 Funding Partner: The Helen Ingham Foundation

Symphony of the Americas Classics Events and Summerfest Symphony of the Americas will present five guest artists in concert with the Symphony in the Amaturo Theater, as well as the Broward performances of Summerfest 2015 featuring an international orchestra-in-residence. $9,600 Funding Partner: ONE Sotheby s International Realty The Girl Choir of South Florida She Sings The Girl Choir of South Florida will present two concerts, one in the Amaturo Theater and one in All Saints Episcopal Church. The repertoire will include works by acclaimed women composers, including the world premiere of a piece by Nina Gilbert entitled Charming Florida. $6,600 Young At Art Museum 2015 YAA Artist Collaborative Young At Art will implement its 2015 YAA Artist Collaborative enabling artists to share their creative energies via pop-up installations, lectures, demonstrations and guest appearances $9,600 Funding Partner: William and Mildred Lasdon Foundation

Funding Arts Broward Members Each FAB! member contributes $1,000 and corporate members contribute $3,500 to the annual grant pool. While some members elect to donate more, there is no additional fundraising. Altman-Paskoski, Judy Amaturo, Wini Annecca, Vicki Barnett, Bonnie* Baxt, Joan Becht, Mary Bishop, Ruth* Blattner, Elaine Bodenweber, Holly* Bonevac, Judy Boucher Garrett, Wendy Brown, Leslie** Bryant, Nancy* Burton, Valerie* Carney, Judith Carter, Linda B. Clearwater, Bonnie Coggeshall, Ruth Cole, Pat Chamberlin, Anne** Colodny, Lou Anne Cooper, Barbara* Costantino, Mary/Ernest Davison, Jane Denaro, Madeline* Dowd, Betty Jo Eletz, Bonnie Elia, Denise* England, Penny Feren, Sandra Ferrero, Raquel Ferro, Marianne Folz, Connie*

Folz, Theo Forman, Christine Gertner, Deanne Glantz, Johnnie Sue* Goldstein, Susan Good, Francie Bishop* Goodman, Pearl* Grass, Jody Harrison Gray, Loyola Gremillion, Ann Guerke, Kathy Gumberg, Christine Gunzburger, Sue* Gustafson, Betty* ** Hagen, David Hagen, Sue Halmos, Madelaine Hardy, Diane Hartman-Horvitz, Erica Horvitz, David Horvitz, Richard A. Howland-Sorrentino, Michelle Igersheim, Adele Ingham, Helen* ** Ingham, Tim Kahn, Elaine Kaplan, Gail* Kashdin, Cindy Kerr, Deborah Kirkpatrick, Jeannette Kitei, Lisa Krulik, Stephanie Kurland, Robbie LaBonte, Renee* Lambertus, Christy* Laskey, Jerry Lee, Carolyn Levan, Dara Levin, Cindy* Lochrie, Katherine Lochrie, Susan* Loving, Susan Ly, Tin Lynch, Sandra Marino, Lois Masi, Wendy* McKenzie, Celeste McGinn, Tara McQuillen, Susan* Mills, Jayne* Mulcahy, Fran Neuhaus, Sara* Northcutt, KayeLynne O Flannery Anderson, Jennifer Olefson, Fred Olefson, Jessica* Pabst, Julie Pallant, Joe Palmisano, Jane Peck, Jodi Peck, Micki Pomerantz, Wendy Sager Powell, Ann* Puck, Brenda Riedel, Mary* Robbins, Sally* Robins, Robin Rogow, Jacquelyn* Rozencwaig, Francine* Rubenstein, Drazia* Ruffner, Mary* ** Satterlee, Joy Schmatz, Lois Schmier, Elizabeth Schwartz, Jean* Schwenke, Bernice Seligman, Cathy Shrago, Mindy* Siegel, Wilma* Smith, Alice* Smith, Lisa Stolberg, Vicki Stotzer, Marion Strauch, Julie Finch Tedeschi, Alda Vandenbosch, Betty Vitolo, Christine Weaver, Myra* Weil, Les Weinbrum, Diane* Wells, Barbara Wendt, Rosemarie Whittington, Sheri Workman, Alene Yianilos, Beatrice* Yianilos, Mindy Zinn, Martine Founding Member* In Memory** Past President Board Members in bold

Special Thanks For Their Continued Support

FAB! Corporate Members FAB! Funding Partners Alice and Joe Smith Bonnie E. Eletz David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation Halmos Holding The Helen Ingham Foundation Hudson Family Foundation Leslie Brown Memorial Fund Peck Foundation The Kresge Foundation William and Mildred Lasdon Foundation FAB! Knight Funding Partners AutoNation Connie and Theo Folz David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation Hudson Family Foundation BBX Capital Dara and Jarett Levan Terry and Jamie Stiles Gail and Michael Kaplan Halmos Holding

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