2018-408-E Arts - Womens Voices arts grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID: COBF04D9- 1E81- 4FFE- A25B- C99E10EE307B Request Summary Women's Voices Chorus seeks a Grassroots Program Grant to cover operational expenses related to our Fall 2018 retreat and our Spring 2019 concert performance. The two retreats we hold each year promote choral excellence, build skills, and provide an opportunity to learn new techniques. We seek funding of $500 for our fall retreat at Chapel of the Cross on October 6, 2018, to hire professional jazz musician and local professor Lenora Helm Hammonds. Dr. Hammonds will educate us on vocal technique and diversity in the choral arts. She is the Director of the North Carolina Central University Vocal Jazz Ensemble and an expert on vocal jazz technique. In addition, we are requesting $500 to support our May 2019 concert of choral music reflecting on the history of women's suffrage and the continuing importance of women's participation in political life. The program will include a collaboration with Capital City Girls Choir, which includes singers ages 9 -18 from across the Triangle. A central element of the program will be a newly commissioned work commemorating the centennial of women's suffrage. Michael Bussewitz - Quarm, a New York -based composer, conductor, and educator is preparing a work entitled "There Is Only Time to Love." Bussewitz - Quarm has premiered works about the global refugee crisis, climate change, and 9/11. Chantel Sellers, his lyricist for this project, is a poet, military veteran, and tribal member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.