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_~, <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 20, 2001 <br />Action Age~a <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Request for Fundingto Support The ArtsCenter's "Kids' Day_ FestivaP'_ <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Sponsorship Request Sharron Hinton, ext. 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-0501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a request for funds to assist The ArtsCenter in sponsoring the "Kids' <br />Day Festival". <br />BACKGROUND: The ArtsCenter (TAC) works with community members and artists to present, <br />produce and teach all artistic disciplines. TAC works with area arts and community <br />organizations to plan culturally diverse programs that assist but do not duplicate other <br />programming efforts. The five programming areas include Artschool classes; Children and <br />Family Programs; Concerts; Theater; and Visual Arts. <br />"Kid's Day" is a free, day-long festival for children and their families. It will salute past and <br />future participants through amulti-cultural and multi-disciplinary arts celebration which will <br />include possible performances by the youth group Sons of Steel; Rags to Riches Theater <br />Company; Pica Flor; Donovan and his life-sized puppets; Rainbow the Clown; four to six <br />workshops taught by professional Artschool instructors (which may include such classes as <br />cartooning, clay handbuilding, music for toddlers, mask making, creative drama, writing through <br />art); and a celebration lunch including pizza and an ArtsCenter 25~' year birthday cake. <br />The festival is scheduled for Saturday, April 21, 2001, from 10am to 5pm, at the TAC. It is <br />anticipated that 300 to 500 children and their parents will attend this event. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: $1,500 from the Manager's Miscellaneous Account has been identified to <br />support this initiative. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board endorse the "Kids' Day <br />Festival" and the Manager's expenditure of $1500 to support this program. <br />