Commissioners Allocate Over $230,000 to Arts Organizations
The County Commissioners last month approved and allocated $57,500 in arts and culture project grants to 29 organizations, and $176,000 in arts and culture program grants to 31 organizations.  These yearly Arts allocations, are for the betterment of our community.  They reflect and reveal our society, add meaning to our cities and uniqueness to our communities.



Lackawanna Historical Society           $19,000.00
Broadway Theater League      $14,000.00
NEPA Philharmonic    $11,000.00
Scranton Fringe Festival         $9,200.00
United Neighborhood Centers            $9,200.00
City of Carbondale Pioneer Nights    $9,200.00
Ballet Theatre of Scranton      $6,500.00
Scranton Civic Ballet  $6,500.00
Boys and Girls Club   $6,500.00
Scranton Tomorrow Mural Program  $5,500.00
Artists for Art Gallery $5,500.00
St. Ubaldo       $5,500.00
Lackawanna Heritage Fair      $5,500.00
La Festa Italiana         $5,500.00
St. Patrick's Day Parade Association  $5,500.00
Actors Circle   $4,500.00
Anthracite Heritage Museum  $4,500.00
Scranton Shakespeare Festival           $4,500.00
Scranton Music Association   $4,500.00
Scranton Jazz Festival $4,500.00
First Friday     $4,500.00
Clarks Summit Ice Festival     $3,600.00
North Pocono Cultural Society           $3,150.00
Scranton Public Theater          $3,150.00
Arcadia Choral            $2,700.00
Catholic Choral           $2,700.00
Choral Society of NEPA        $2,700.00
Lyric Consort  $2,700.00
Lackawanna River Conservation Association-River Fest      $2,200.00
NEIU Poetry Outloud $1,000.00
Lackawanna Heritage Valley-Santa Train      $1,000.00

Ringgold Band of Scranton, $1,000, concert band to perform free concerts at Nay Aug Park on Independence Day and perhaps in Carbondale; Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park LLC, $2,500, "Kneeling Soldier" sculpture casting; La'Quitia Denson, $2,000 development of bi-monthly magazine, PRIXMATIC, dedicated to highlighting businesses and artists within the Black, Indigenous and people of color community; Ted LoRusso, $2,000, “Dead Quiet City,” performance of full-length play; Julie Esty, $2,000, the Dunmore Cemetery Tour; Storybook Theatre, $2,500, theater for young audiences; Luz Cabrales, $2,500 "Tomorrow," a live performance about Holocaust survivors to be recorded as a short film; Hospice of the Sacred Heart, $2,000, Camp Healing HeARTS, a day camp for art and grief education to children, who lost a loved one. 

Wally Gordon Community Singers, $1,500, free choral concerts in the community in July and December; Presbybop music, $1,500 for five free public jazz performances; Carbondale Concerts 2023, $2,500 four summer concerts at Carbondale’s Memorial Park; Diavolo Booking, $2,500, music festival at Keystone Stage in Olyphant; Indraloka Animal Sanctuary, $1,500, art sessions at the sanctuary with an exhibit at its barn for participants.

Leela Baikadi, $1,500, art exhibit traveling to county libraries focusing on India's culture of India; Women to Women THRIVE, $2,000, free annual arts festival "Arts THRIVE in Carbondale"; Etruscan Press Inc., $1,500, poet Tim Seibles hosting writing workshop and production of participants' posters for display in businesses across the county; Imagine NEPA, $2,000, free original singer-songwriter series titled "Story Behind the Song" where local singer/songwriters perform their original work on live streams and record concerts.

The Waverly Community House Inc., $2,500, Northeast Pennsylvania Film Festivals, April 2023; Farm Arts Collective, $2,500, a collaboration with The Greenhouse Project to bring large outdoor eco-musical theater performance "The Scientists" to Scranton audiences; Michaela Moore/Camp Create, $2,500, a visual and performing arts camp for children with special needs.

Arts at First Presbyterian, $1,500, free concerts at First Presbyterian Church, Clarks Summit; Christine Medley, $2,500, free after-school letterpress and printmaking workshops; Scranton Municipal Recreation Authority, $2,000, for free Sunday summer concerts at Nay Aug Park; Summer Music Festival Inc., $1,500, free concerts at Scranton Cooperative Farmers Market in Scranton. 

Tumnus Moran, $2,500, collaboration of local queer artists, culminating in a gallery showing of art representing eras of LGBT+ History at the Afa Gallery; The Friends of the Arc Auxiliary, $1,500, The ARC Angels on Stage instruction for intellectually and physically disabled adults in theater, dance and song culminating in a performance; Snow Forge, $1,500, Old Forge; Marylou Chibirka, $1,500, Good Grief Art, learning to paint through loss; and Center for the Living City, $2,500, Observe Scranton Festival May 4-6.