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Cultural Council Receives Grant to Aid Arts Education
Brandy Upright, Sun-Sentinel; Marta Batmasian, Palm Beach County Cultural Council Board;
Rena Blades, Palm Beach County Cultural Council; Dr. Sandra Richmond, Palm Beach County School Board.
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The Palm Beach County Cultural Council is the proud recipient of a $10,000 grant from the Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
The grant will assist the Council with costs associated with Access Art, a program that builds the capacity of the 200+ arts and cultural organizations in Palm Beach County to serve low income children with arts education programming. Specific objectives include:
Planning and providing workshops for arts and cultural educators.
Preparing arts providers with new skills to connect arts and cultural education to Florida’s Sunshine State Standards.
Coordinating with the Palm Beach County School District and after-school providers in qualifying the providers to offer programs to low-income children, K-8th grade.
To achieve these main goals, the Council will host a series of workshops and presentations throughout 2006 that will teach cultural organizations how to provide sustainable, standards-based learning experiences for students.
“Arts in education is a critical aspect to a solid education, and with the help of the Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund, the Council can help make arts programs more relevant and consistent throughout the County,” says Rena Blades, Cultural Council President and CEO.
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Larry Boytano
Public Relations Coordinator
Palm Beach County Cultural Council
1555 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 300
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Tel. (561) 471-1601
Fax (561) 687-9484
lboytano@pbccc.org
www.palmbeachculture.com
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Boca Raton magazine conducts Cover Girl Search
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Boca Raton, Florida. Boca Raton magazine is looking for a few good faces—to compete for the cover girl for its 2006 July-August issue. This is the fifth annual cover girl competition the magazine has undertaken; the contest is a hallmark of the magazine’s annual Best of Boca issue, its best-selling magazine of the year.
Interested contestants may either send in a picture with contact information to Cover Girl, Boca Raton magazine, 6413 Congress Avenue, Suite 100, Boca Raton, Florida, 33487 or show up in person at the magazine’s cover girl sign-up booth at Town Center Mall on Saturday, February 18 and Saturday February 25 in the Nordstrom wing.
Stylists from Al Stephens’ Salons will be on hand to touch up hair and make-up for the contestants who will be photographed by Boca Raton magazine’s staff photographer at that time. The sign-up booth will be open both Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The entry fee for all contestants is $15, which will be donated to the Golden Bell Education Foundation of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce. All contestants must be at least 18 years of age.
The winner will appear on the cover of Boca Raton magazine’s July-August Best of Boca issue and win a professional photo shoot from M Management Model Agency.
For more information, please call Kristi Kusek at 561/997-8683.
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