Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will receive a major grant of $670,000 from the Archibald Bush Foundation for The New World Initiative that is to increase the scope and audience for its World Music and World Dance Series.
Specifically, the grant is for broadened community engagement and participation in world music and world dance through a major program expansion as part of the Foundation's Large Cultural Organizations Development Fund.The grant offers three-year support with a matching component, and will be used to develop an audience for the world music and world dance programs that reach an increasingly diverse community."This grant allows us to continue our growth as a performing arts center bringing the widest range of excellent performing arts to the Midwest as possible," says Ordway Center President and CEO Patricia Mitchell. "The World Music and World Dance programming is particularly exciting for us - and we look forward to intensifying its outreach."Ordway Center's 2008-2009 World Dance Series continues with Ballet Hispanico in January and Lula Washington Dance Theatre in February. The World Music series continues with Vusi Mahlasela in February and Jake Shimabukuro in March.Videos