Single Project / Event Grant Recipients 2002

$1,350 Primus/Zollar in Concert Creation, teaching and performance of a work by choreographer Jawole Jo Zollar.

$500 The Painter's Edge: 4 Visions/Graduate Arts Student Association Series of lectures and studio visits by four visual artists.

$1,100 Diary of a Madman/Theater Department This co-production with The Cold War Theatre Project is a bilingual adaptation fostering collaboration with professional and international theater artists.

$1,000 Picasso at the Lapin Agile/UMass Theatre Guild/RSO The play, written by Steve Martin, centers on a fictional meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso at the Lapin Agile in Paris, France in 1904, and their subsequent discussion about the impact they have made on the 20th century.

$1,000 Into the Woods/UMass Theatre Guild/RSO The musical, by Steven Sondheim and James Lapine, imports characters from classic fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk and takes them on a journey of growth and self-discovery.

$800 Wrench/Music Department The musical "captures the experience of what goes on behind the scenes of an average performance, by exploring the lives of those actors and stagehands that bring the magic of theater to public view."

$200 Lecture by James Dustin/Art Department Dustin will lectures about hsi process where he creates 3-dimensional architectural models which he then photographs and uses as inspiration for his paintings.

$800 Raga & Sahitya/UMass Srutilaya/RSO The evening will start with a lecture-demonstration session with the audience members in order to help them understand the basics of Carnatic music. Following the demonstration the evening will feature the South Indian classical vocal concert, Raga & Sahitya.

$800 Adriene Kennedy: A Celebration/Theater Department Lecture and readings from playwright Adrienne Kennedy's works.

$500 ALANA Jazz Concert/ALANA Affairs Latin Jazz Concert by Roy Brown and Jose Gonzalez.

$400 New York Kings of Comedy/Black Student Union/RSO Night of comedy

$650 Short Cuts Jounral/Short Cuts This journal is dedicated to the publication of student-written short fiction.

$500 Writing From the Belly/Women of Color Leadership Network Through the use of theater, voice, music and movement, the students will put into words their thoughts, fears and emotions. This results in a published narrative and serves as the foundation for a performace piece which the students will develop and perform at the WOCLN April Leadership Training graduation.

$1,000 Alive With Dance/Alive With Dance/RSO Senior dance majors choreograph pieces in jazz, modern, and ballet as their final work here at UMass

$600 A Thirty-Two Classic/Theater Department The script was written by UMass undergraduate Dave Splinter and explores race relations race relations and the generation gap in contemporary America.

$800 Theater Workshop/Black Student Union/RSO To support a weeklong workshop by the theatre arts group director of the Oversoul Theater Collective, Morgan Peters.

$750 El Calenton/Concepto Latino

$500 Dominican Independence '02/Casa Dominicana Evening including folkloric dance demonstrations and traditional music.

$500 VSA Cultural Event/Vietnamese Student Association/RSO To support "Tet," its annual New Year's celebration event includes traditional dances, songs, music and costumes.

$1,000 Visitng Writer's Series: B. Hannah/MFA Program for Poets and Writers Reading by novelist Barry Hannah.

$1,250 Multicultural Film Festival/Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies "Cinema Citizenship" examines the ideas of citizenship, homeland, and national belonging. As is customary with this series, each film will be introduced by a scholar or filmmaker, who will place the film in its artistic and cultural context.

$1,000 Crossing John at the Crossroads/Theater Department The play is a melding of forms rather than a narrative, with elements of song and dance that explores African American identity and history and explores healing through ritual. The play incorporates a variety of art forms, including prerecorded video, music and dance to tell the story in a collage effect.

$1,000 Fool's Rust/Active Ingredients/RSO This original musical was written by a UMass student and presents the story of two orphaned brothers at the turn of the century in working class Boston. The play chronicles their lives as they explore love and grapple with gang violence.

$800 mOthertongue Journal/mOthertongue mOthertongue is a multilingual periodical of poetry, prose, lyrics, one-acts, and artwork designed to provide multilingual students from the Five Colleges to express themselves in languages other than English.

$700 UMass Ballroom Dance Competition/UMass Ballroom Dance Team This collegiate ballroom dance competition is the first to be hosted by UMass allowing dancers from various schools to showcase their skills, while exposing audience members to the art of ballroom dance.

$800 Transformations: A Multimedia Production/Department of Music and Dance This collaboration between the Departments of Music & Dance, English, Education and Computer Science incorporates dance, computer generated visuals and video, lighting and spatially separated live and electronic music exploring the artistic possibilities in these various mediums and shed light on the psychoanalytical meanings within Sexton's poems.

$750 UMass Dance Team Pep Rally for Nationals/UMass Dance Team This pep rally allows the group to perform a trial run of their routine in front of a large audience as well as an opportunity for UMass students to see the Dance team perform.

$600 Mendhi Night/South Asian Student Association/RSO The evening is thematically centered around the symbolic application of Mendhi (or henna) tatoos on the body, and the significant events that surround this ritual in Southeast Asia. Mendhi artists will be on hand to apply the tatoos, which will be complemented by live music (Dhol, Tabla and Harmonium players) and traiditional dances (Dandia, Rass and Bhangra).

$1,000 UMass Visiting Writers Series/MFA Program for Poets and Writers The diverse group of writers invited to speak are nationally and internationally known and offer a wonderful opportunity for student to learn more about the craft of writing.

$700 Cape Verdean Cultural Week/Cape Verdean Student Alliance/RSO Evening will include Belinda Ferreira singing morna and coladera dance music, and a DJ dance party of classical and contemporary Cape Verdean music.

$750 Penny Dreadful, Anthology of Comics/Comic Art Society/RSO This anthology of comic book art will feature comics written by UMass students and occasionally by other 5-college students.

$500 Cambodian New Year/Cambodian Student Association/RSO

$700 Jubilat Issue #5/Jubilat Literary Journal To support the publication of their unique poetry journal.

$1,300 Visit by Egyptian Theater Artist Nora Amin/Theater Dept. Funding provided for artist fees

$1,250 Native American Social/Native American Student Assoc. This event included performances by the Native American Indian drumming groups Mystic River (a local group) and Iron River; a performance by the Mashpee Wampanoag Singers and Dancers and an unspecified storyteller.

$1,000 Queerfest/UMass Pride Alliance Including performances by several (mostly folk) musicians whose music explores issues related to the gay/bisexual lifestyle.

$1,500 NE College Comedy Jam VI/Student Valley Productions Featuring Student Valley Productions' Mission Improvable and Toast! Groups as well as other student improvisational troupes from across the country. The culminating event will be a performance by Mission Chicago.

$300 Orchard Hill Bowl Weekend/Fill the Hill/OHAG Weekend including an open stage where students can perform, a T-shirt design contest and a concert by local musicians.

$1,000 2nd Annual Juniper Literary Festival/MFA Program for Poets & Writers The Literary Festival will include readings by four fiction writers (who are alumni of the University) and other various literary events.

$1,200 Bill Shannon, "CrutchMaster"/Residential Arts Program Bill Shannon's dance performances have their primary roots in the experience of the artist as a disabled person. Derived from early childhood experiments with motion on crutches, the movement has been sharpened by a matured sense of timing, space and body awareness.