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Festival 56 receives $1,500 grant for summer youth theatre camp · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Festival fifty six receives one five hundred dollars grant for
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  Speaker 1: summer youth theater camp. Written by Emily Bebe, this article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. Festival fifty six in Princeton has received a
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred dollars grant from the Starve Rock
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  Speaker 1: Country Community Foundation's Art of Starve Rock Country Fund to
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  Speaker 1: support its summer youth camp. The grant will help fund
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  Speaker 1: Camp fifty six, a two week summer theater camp for
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  Speaker 1: children sponsored by Learning Stage, the Education Committee of the
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  Speaker 1: Princeton Theatre Group. Festival fifty six, a volunteer driven nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: arts organization founded in two thousand and three, is dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to developing Princeton and the surrounding region as a home
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  Speaker 1: for professional theater and theater arts education. According to a
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  Speaker 1: press release, Mark Bittler recently returned to Festival fifty six
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  Speaker 1: as producing Artistic Director. Bitler previously served as casting director
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  Speaker 1: and as a member of the acting company for three seasons.
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  Speaker 1: He has a background in performance fundraising, casting and education.
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  Speaker 1: The Arts of Starvrock Country Fund has funded Festival fifty
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  Speaker 1: six in every grant cycle. The Starved Rock Country Community
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  Speaker 1: Foundation offers two cycles of grant funding each year in
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  Speaker 1: partnership with the Illinois Arts Council Agency, which provides a
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  Speaker 1: portion of the grant dollars available each year. According to
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  Speaker 1: a press release, the deadline for the current grant application
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  Speaker 1: cycle is September fifteenth. For more information on the art
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  Speaker 1: grant opportunity and the application process, visit the SRCCF website
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  Speaker 1: or contact the SRCCF at eight one five two five
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