Projects Funded

Projects Funded to Date:

2024

• Tunes & Tales - Music and Storytelling for the Community

• Nepali Jatra 2024 Cultural Extravaganza

2023

• Gaitani Wedding Suite

• Roots Music Project

• Shining Mountain Waldorf School Ethnic/Cultural Events Sherefe Concert and Workshop

• Snowhawk Productions’ A Lo Cubano - Cuban Salsa Event

• Boulder Valley Spellbinders - Tunes & Tales

• Valerie Wedel Harp Concerts

2022

• Gora Gora Orkestar for Festo Festo

• Boulder Irish Workshop

• Boulder Israeli Dance: Rodkim Baharim Workshop

• American Vernacular Dance, “Halloween Magic”

• Tarab Retreat 2022 - Faisal Zedan Residency

2021

• Sherefe in Concert - Alex's Virtual Folk Arts Series

• Fairy Tales with a Twist - Alex's Virtual Folk Arts Series

• Espresso! Gypsy Jazz and Swing - Alex's Virtual Folk Arts Series

• Planina - Songs of Eastern Europe - Alex's Virtual Folk Arts Series

• Dance Party with Barbelfish Balkan Band - Alex's Virtual Folk Arts Series

• 2021 Full Report

2020

• Tarab Retreat - brings Klezmer, Arabic, Balkan, Indian, and Persian music and dance to participants around the country-online

2019

• Nii Okak Areyeetey and Kristen Planer - Drumming Workshop Retreat and An Evening in Ghana

• Maisha Diatta - Logo Ligi’s African Folklife Celebration

• Boulder Spelemannslag - Specialized instruction

• Planina - Songs of Eastern Europe - 2019 Boulder Balkan Bash

• Sing the World Green - Youth summer camp

• Kimberly Rector, Shining Mtn. Waldorf School - Watch Your Step! demo at contra dance

• Society for Creative Aging, Viva Theater - “Dude, It’s Boulder”
  

2018

• 1000 Voices - September 2018 African Singing Fiesta

• Friends of Stan Wilkes - Stan’s 90th Birthday Celebration

• Postoley Dance Ensemble - Assistance with operating expenses while work is proceeding on obtaining a permanent dance floor for Dancing on the Plaza in downtown Boulder

• Watch Your Step! - "Dancing Through the Decades" 10th Anniversary Show

2017

• Boulder Scandinavian Dancers - assistance to purchase a hardingfele (specialized Norwegian fiddle)

• Boulder Spelemannslag - assistance to purchase a nykelharpa (specialized Swedish folk instrument)

• Radu Popescu & Joseph Snowhawk - Afro-Cuban Dance Festival (2018)

• Watch Your Step! - “Dressing Through the Decades” 1910s-1960s Fashion Show, Tea & Social Dance

2016

• Boulder International Folk Dancers - Live music by Bulgarika (Bulgarian musicians on tour) for dance party

• Boulder Spelemannslag - costume assistance [PDF]

• Friends of Melba Shepard - Melba's 90th Birthday Celebration

• Planina - Songs of Eastern Europe - Boulder Balkan Bash 2016

• Susan Frontczak and Jacqueline Schwab - Combined Music and Story Concert
  

2015

• Boulder Chorale - One Song, One Boulder project

• Boulder Dance Coalition - party to celebrate Coalition's 25th and Avalon's 10th anniversaries

• Boulder International Folk Dancers - live music at spring 2015 workshop party

• Boulder Israeli Dancers - party to honor folks in the community who have passed

• Romanian American Freedom Alliance - fundraiser project

• Solidarity Singers - group re-creation and expansion

• VAC/Melba Shepard - pictorial history of the VAC/BDC International Festival

2014

• American Vernacular Dance - Reveille 3 to New Year's Eve party

• Biz Hertzberg and James Hoskins - Glendi Parties

• Boulder Dance Coalition - International Festival transition

• Boulder Valley Spellbinders - support for training

• Donald Vukovic - Bulgaria in Boulder 2014

• Tom Masterson - Nederland Folkdancers

• Watch Your Step - History of Swing Dancing presentation and teaching

2013

• Boulder Family Dance/CFOOTMAD - support for operations

• Boulder Spelemannslag - fundraising dance and assistance with costumes and camp

• Planina Songs of Eastern Europe - 25th Anniversary Reunion Concert, Dinner and Balkan Bash party