Category Archives: Shakespeare

Fiction writer and poet Jeanne Bryner has agreed to serve as the juror for the 2011 Blanchan/Doubleday writing awards.The Neltje Blanchan Award, $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script which is informed by a relationship with the natural world. The Frank Nelson Doubleday Award, $1,000, is given for the best poetry, ficti […]

From a UW press release:Jazz musician Cyrus Chestnut will start the University of Wyoming Cultural Programs fall concert series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, in the Fine Arts Center concert hall in Laramie.Tickets cost $22 for the public and $18 for students and senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased online at www.uwyo.edu/finearts or call (307) 766-6666 […]

The Meadowland Review is now considering submissions of original artwork (paintings, drawings, collage). Deadline for ART/PHOTOGRAPHY submissions is OCTOBER 1, 2010The Meadowland Review will not accept material that has appeared in other online or print publications. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must notify The Meadowland Review if your wor […]

Here's an interesting way to promote fine writers and fine wines and the restoration and expansion of an historic Carnegie Library. (For an example of a similar project in Wyoming, visit the Fremont County Library in Lander.)D'Vine Wine Manitou has released commemorative bottles of its wine with specially designed Author Fest of the Rockies labels […]

From the Ignite Cheyenne blog:If you had five minutes to say something to the people of Cheyenne, what would you say?Well think it over, because we are giving you a chance to say it. Ignite Cheyenne is a place where people from Cheyenne and southeastern Wyoming can come to share ideas, hobbies, socialize and have a great time. Ignite Cheyenne is about showca […]

Under the massive silos and steel girding of an industrial steel blast furnace, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced 21 grants totaling $3 million awarded through the NEA Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25). […]

The web version of the new NEA ARTS is posted. The issue focuses on the arts in Washington, DC […]

75 not-for-profits,including arts and cultural organizations, libraries, and universities,will receive grants totaling $1 million to host Big Read projects between September 2010 and June 2011. […]

Kicking off the program's fifth year, the National Endowment for the Arts today announced that 75 not-for-profits -- including arts and cultural organizations, libraries, and universities -- will receive grants totaling $1 million to host a Big Read project between September 2010 and June 2011. […]

Last week, HUD and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs): $100 million in grants available through HUD's Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program, and up to $75 million in grants available through a joint HUD and DOT Sustainable Communities Challenge Grant Program. Under both prog […]