12 | Arts Cultural Magazine | SPRING 2024 Scan the code for more information on Long Island Grants for the Arts. Long Island Grants for the Arts are made possible with funds from the State & Local Partnerships (SLP) program of NYSCA and with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature. These funds ensure the continued success of extraordinary arts and cultural activities throughout both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Long Island Grants for the Arts cont’d Huntington Arts Council is proud to administer the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program with 6 grant opportunities, five annual and one bi-monthly. SCR grants support individual artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations to cultivate high quality, local arts projects and programming throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Go to our website for information on grants available through the Huntington Arts Council. The combined impact of the recently awarded SCR Annual 2024 Grants and bi-monthly Community Impact Grants for 2023 is significant. Of the 172 applications received, 106 were awarded with grants totaling $383,000! Flood Sensor Aunty by Sabina Sethi Unni is a comedic public theater project about disaster preparedness, starring an anthropomorphic flood sensor making a career pivot to arthouse film. Designed as public education with, and for brown aunties around Hillside Avenue and Jericho Turnpike, this will take place across late night chai and gossip spots throughout Nassau County. As a public theater artist, organizer, and urban planner, Sabina was inspired to create this project because she sees public theater as an exciting strategy for meeting people where they’re at (like Rockaway Beach on a Saturday afternoon in June) with resources, community, glitter, and fun. This is an entertaining tool to arm aunties with disaster prevention resources. 2024 Creative Communities Awardee Spotlight Jasmine Piggot’s LI Philharmonia Migration Commission will feature two new works for winds and spoken word. They will be premiered in the fall by the Long Island Philharmonia as part of a larger concert on immigration in Suffolk County along with pieces by other composers focusing on other nationalities. Jasmine’s work as a composer has focused on autobiographical works inspired by different experiences she has had as a Black woman in the field of classical music. It has been a dream of hers to bring this concept to large ensemble works. Jasmine is the granddaughter of immigrants and her works will focus on the immigration of Black people from the Caribbean, and the forced “immigration” of African slaves to the United States. 2024 Creative Individual Grant Awardee Spotlight Jasmine Piggot Composer
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