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Dance Alloy Theater 5530 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA  15206-3525 Phone:  412.363.4321 Fax:      412.363.4320  www.dancealloy.org beth@dancealloy.org   Budget Size:  $500,001 - $999,999  Number Full-time Staff:   10 Number Part-time Staff:  15 Number Volunteers:       1

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Dance Alloy Theater, Pittsburgh's premiere modern dance company and school, strives to BREAK THE FOURTH WALL, presenting new and timeless world-class dance theater and providing high quality, non-competitive dance/movement education for all ages. Reaching out to diverse audiences unexpectedly with its artistic vision, Dance Alloy Theater creates bridges of understanding, exploring the human condition through the power of dance and the magic of theater.

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Dready or Knot Productions mission is to foster, create, facilitate and present artistic works that improve mental and physical development to cultivate confident and creative individuals within the Pittsburgh Community.  Knotdance along with Dready or Knot Productions designs programs to develop community involvement in itself and its arts.  Project goals are to inspire others to utilize their own community resources as a vehicle for creative projects.

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Through the arts, Dreams of Hope develops lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied youth leaders who promote social change by educating audiences.

Dreams of Hope works to achieve its mission by creating a safe and accepting environment for youth from sexual gender minorities; encouraging diverse populations to create art about their life experiences; providing an interactive environment where youth create art with professional artists; and educating audiences on issues facing sexual and gender minorities. 

Each season, working with professional artists and directors, the youth create one show.  Dreams of Hope performs two free public performances of its season work in downtown Pittsburgh: one Live Run-Through in January, and one in June at the close of the season.  Dreams of Hope also performs nearly two dozen outreach and educational performances at schools and universities, houses of worship, corporate offices, unions, healthcare conferences as well as LGBT Pride celebrations.  Each year the group performs various events and organizations outside the Greater Pittsburgh region.

Enjoy Bellevue 18 Hawley Avenue Bellevue, PA 15202-3815  Phone:  412.761.5773 www.enjoybellevue.org info@enjoybellevue.org Number Full-time Staff:  1 Number Volunteers:       6 Key Staff Organizer/marketing and promotions Michele Anne Smith info@enjoybellevue.org 412.761.5773 Consultant/Visual Arts Susan Matthews matthewsarts@verizon.net 412.761.0301 Consultant/Folklife, Dance, Music Susan Shegog susan@thecelticcollection.com 412.766.1044 Mission/Description Enlighten our friends and neighbors throughout the world seeking to Enjoy Bellevue and the surrounding region where a myriad of events and activities are initiated, collaborated, promted, and often orchestrated by the friends and advocates of www.EnjoyBellevue.org and planned for the sole purposeof enriching the lives and times of all in the near or far proximity of Bellevue, PA who come together intending to LIVE-WORSHIP-SHOP and partake in work and play with a desire to share in the small town ambience that Bellevue exudes to all who venture forth. Expressive Media, Inc. 128 North Craig Street Suite 212 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2758 Phone:  412.681.6670  www.expressivemedia.org info@expressivemedia.org   Budget Size:  < $100,000

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Father Ryan Arts Center of Focus on Renewal 420 Chartiers Avenue McKees Rocks, PA  15136-3802 Phone:  412.771.3052 Fax:      412.771.4150  www.fatherryanartscenter.org   Number Full-time Staff:   5 Number Part-time Staff:  3 Number Volunteers:       4

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MISSION: The Father Ryan Arts Center creates opportunities for the community and the individual to be inspired, empowered, and enlightened through the arts.

VISION: Through the arts, the Father Ryan Arts Center will foster a sense of accomplishment and hope by developing the spirit, mind and body of all who participate.

 STRATEGY: The Father Ryan Arts Center wil be a place where:
-Theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and literature will be experienced.
-We strive for excellence in staff, facility, and product.
-People of all ages will experience the arts.
-The diversity and various cultures of the arts will be celebrated.
-We encourage multicultural arts programming.
-Education of the earts will be explored, expanded, and experienced.
-Professionals in the arts are employed so as to share their talents.
-We encourage local artists to share their talents.
-Management will be fiscally responsible.
-Programming and activities will be accessible to the public.

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The Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc. is a non-profit member-supported organization that promotes appreciation of fiberart and fosters its development and continuation.  The Guild is affiliated with the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  The Fiberarts Guild provides a support community for artists and others interested in the medium.  An annual series of lectures and workshops fosters individual artistic growth and brings together people who seek to advance the field of fiberart and enrich the culture of our region.

The Fiberarts Guild produces juried exhibitions of members' work so that established and emerging artists may exhibit side by side.  Fiberart International is the only ongoing exhibition open to textile artists everywhere in the world.  Producing this prestigious event extends the Guild's outreach beyond our region to a growing national and international audience.

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We are a Downtown churhc committed to traditional music and to offering to the best of our ability, the beauty of holiness to the people of the city of Pittsburgh. We have a concert series, "Music for the Spirit" an annual series of diverse concerts. We also offer noonday organ recitals each spring. We are a 501c3.

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The Frick Art & Historical Center, an historic site and cultural center, serves the public through preservation, presentation, and interpretation of the fine and decorative arts and historically significant artifacts for all residents of and visitors to Western Pennsylvania.

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The mission of the GTA is to transform the lives and education of children through active participation in the arts and inspire students and educators to become lifelong learners and participants in the arts by making the arts integral to education.

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Guiding Star Productions, a dance company, specializes in promoting Indian art and culture in the Pittsburgh region.  Our mission is to educate and train people in different forms of Indian dancing, spread awareness of diverse Indian cultural aspects and blend eastern and western cultures together.

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Hill Dance Academy Theatre (HDAT), provides technical training and skill development in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, African, liturgical movement and repertory.  HDAT’s mission is to develop and train Black dancers; expand knowledge and contributions of Black Dance traditions and create emerging professional dance artists who will sustain dance in the Black community.  HDAT’s developmentally designed curriculum is rooted in Black dance traditions.  Students ages three to adults study with professionals and master teachers dedicated to teaching and advancing the artistry of dance.   Hill Dance Academy Theatre services provides dance programming and curriculum development, choreography, teacher training, master classes, conference and workshop talks, capacity building and sustainability and success for small arts programs.  With the growth of liturgical movement, HDAT established, Ju’ b’ lation: Spirit Filled Feet a multi-generational liturgical dance company that uses sacred dance as the artistic voice to celebrate cultural and spiritual traditions of the Black church experience. HDAT has applied for its nonprofit 501 c 3 and is presently seeking a permanent location in Pittsburgh Hill Community.  For more information, contact HDAT at hdat5678@gmail.com.

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The Hillman Center for Performing Arts is Shady Side Academy's primary performing arts classroom.  As a teaching and learning space, the Hillman Center offers current students a chance to discover and nurture their talents.  As a public performance venue, the Hillman Center presents programs of excellence that represent Pittsburgh's cultural traditions and celebrate global artistic innovation.  Our annual series benefits the current students and alumni of Shady Side Academy, as well as the citizens of Western Pennsylvania, through residencies and performances.

I Made It! Market PO Box 81042 Pittsburgh, PA  15217-0542 Phone:  412.600.9419  www.imadeitmarket.com info@imadeitmarket.com   Budget Size:  < $100,000  Number Part-time Staff:  1

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The mission of the International Poetry Forum is to demonstrate the relevence and centrality of poetry through oral presentation.

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The Ixtlan Artists Group, Inc. is a concert, cultural events, and educational outreach booking agency representing traditional ethnic, folk and world music artists who tour the U.S. Ixtlan's commitment is to represent artists who have the ability to provoke new thoughts through the experience of cultural diversity that is entertaining, educational and meaningful.

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The mission of the Jazz Workshop, Inc. is to provide a music education program that teaches jazz and other forms of music to under-served students and other populations so as to promote and preserve Jazz as an art form, build multi-cultural understanding and encourage self esteem and self expression through music.

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The mission of the Community Theater Project Corporation/Kelly-Strayhorn Theater is to provide a community theater facility and to encourage diverse artistic, cultural and educational activities that will enrich the community as well as the lives of individuals.

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Kente Arts Alliance is a professional African American arts organization whose mission is to present high-quality art of the African Dispora. Kente will focus on jazz and World Music, with the aim to provide arts programming that entertains, informs and uplifts the residents of underserved communities. Kente seeks to:
* Increase the visibility and awareness of African Dispora art in an effort to preserve it.
* Utilize venues where people live in orderto increase access and affordability.
* build sustainable arts programming to support revitalization in those communities.
* establish new audiences to expand patronage to the arts.

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The mission of Kuntu is to examine Black life from social, political and historical perspectives and to highlight the aspects of theatre that both entertain and educate, moving actors and audience members to personal growth and social change. Kuntu's diverse membership includes students from area high schools and colleges, as well as community members and professional theatre artists.  Our season includes mainstage productions, touring shows and a variety of workshops offered in Allegheny County and nationally.

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Laboratory Company Dance…passionately advancing the daring art of movement while nurturing unity in dance. LABCO is a contemporary dance company dedicated to the presentation, production, creation, and teaching of contemporary dance in the Pittsburgh community. Our vision is that every movement artist has a home in a community that values and supports contemporary dance.

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To preserve the history of Lawrenceville through programs, festivals, books, tours and other events to educate people about its history.