Small Arts Organization
Award Winners
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CAST
CAST envisions a thriving, interconnected regional theatre community where every high school student—onstage or backstage—has equitable access to transformational arts experiences, expert mentorship, and creative leadership opportunities. We strive to foster the next generation of confident, collaborative, and compassionate artists by uniting schools, empowering educators, and celebrating student achievement across the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region
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Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition
Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition has a mission to promote a culture of wellness in diverse populations through evidence-based recreational music-making, education, and arts engagement.
Through work with hospitals, employers, senior care organizations, universities, schools, non-profits, and local and state entities, the organization works towards a common goal of changing lives through music and wellness
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Dillsboro Arts Inc
Dillsboro Arts strives to create and foster a sense of community around the arts and among art-lovers in Dillsboro and the Southeastern Indiana region.
Dillsboro Arts hosts a new art exhibition in the Friendship Gallery every two months. The Porch at Dillsboro is the scene of periodic free public music events.
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Miami Valley Ballet Theatre
Miami Valley Ballet Theatre is a community of student dancers and families whose mission is to not only teach dance, but to educate our dancers and audiences in the rich history of all dance forms. We believe that dance and movement is for everyone.
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Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
For nearly 32 years The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra has taken the “phony” out of symphony through live thematic concerts that culturally enrich, educate and entertain the residents of Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati. The KSO performs throughout Northern Kentucky with three series of concerts; Summer Series in Devou Park (July- September), Free Education/Outreach concerts (October – March), and an affordably priced Subscription Series (5 programs held October-May).
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projectart: Cincinnati
projectart serves children who don’t have access to arts education at school by partnering with public libraries to provide free, high-quality art classes led by resident teaching artists who empower kids with the possibilities and potential of creative expression.
With a thriving arts community and one of the best library systems in the country, projectart: Cincinnati is offering focused in the West End and Avondale.
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SingOUT Cincy
SingOUT Cincy is a multigenerational, queer-centric singing organization dedicated to highlighting voices of the LGBTQIA+ community, bridging generational divides, and showcasing music by and for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
The organization dreams of a city where queer voices are heard and celebrated, where queer people and allies of all ages are able to lift each other up in song, and where audiences of all kinds gather in community to celebrate and honor queer voices.
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The Cincinnati Civic Orchestra
Since its founding in 1929, the orchestra has provided Greater Cincinnati area musicians the opportunity to play classical, light classical and pops music in a full symphony orchestra open to all without auditions. All members are volunteers, including those with extensive professional training and experience. The orchestra encourages interested musicians to join even if they have not played for many years; the membership is supportive of its less experienced musicians and measures the orchestra's growth by individual improvement and accomplishment.
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The Drama Workshop
For more than 70 years, TDW has been bringing quality community theater to audiences of all ages in the greater Cincinnati area. From farce to drama, classics to contemporary works – The Drama Workshop truly has something for everyone. It is one of the longest running theater groups in the Cincinnati area.
Since 2012, The Drama Workshop has been performing in their permanent home, The Glenmore Playhouse in Cheviot.