麻州文化協會撥款357萬元資助57表演藝術中心

Speakers and attendees at today’s Mass Cultural Council event celebrating
$3.57 million in Gaming Mitigation Fund awards to 57
 performing arts organizations at The Guthrie Cente

                (Boston Orange 摘譯) 麻州文化協會 (Mass Cultural Council)今 (14)日宣佈，從麻州博彩業紓緩基金 (Gaming Mitigation Fund) 撥款357萬元，資助57各表演藝術中心。

             麻州擴大博彩法 (Massachusetts Expanded Gaming Act)設立了博彩紓緩基金，用於支持麻州的非牟利及市鎮表演藝術中心，付費給藝術家或巡迴表演節目。這些補助款可幫助這些組織和有大筆預算，可以堤共極具吸引力巡迴表演活動的休閒式賭場競爭。

              補助款金額每個組織最低6000元，最高20萬元。今年獲得最高20萬元補助款的機構有波士頓市的博克中心(Boch Center)，波士頓交響樂團，Cabot表演藝術中心，波士頓名人系列，Hanover劇院，Lynn禮堂，南岸音樂馬戲團。

Mass Cultural Council Awards $3.57 Million in Gaming Mitigation Funds to 57 Performing Arts Centers Statewide

 

GREAT BARRINGTON – Today at The Guthrie Center, Mass Cultural Council announced and celebrated $3.57 million in grants awarded to 57 performing arts centers through the Fiscal Year 2025 Gaming Mitigation Fund. The program, established in the Massachusetts Expanded Gaming Act, provides grants to Massachusetts nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers to spend on touring shows or touring artist fees. These grants aim to provide funding to organizations competing with resort-style casinos to book such acts. “Performing arts centers serve as cornerstones of our communities, fostering creativity, connection, and economic vitality,” said Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director, Mass Cultural Council. “These organizations offer access to transformative artistic experiences, and these awards help ensure that they're able to continually and successfully draw and book touring artists for their audiences to see and enjoy.” As the Commonwealth’s independent state arts agency, Mass Cultural Council is charged with bolstering the cultural sector, thereby advancing economic vitality, supporting transformational change, and celebrating, preserving, and inspiring creativity across all Massachusetts communities. This year’s awards range from $6,000 to $200,000. The funding is used by the organizations to pay touring shows or artist fees. Mass Cultural Council receives 2% of state casino tax revenues to administer this program. The Gaming Mitigation Fund is intended to mitigate a direct threat to the sustainability of Massachusetts’ nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers. It provides funding to preserve their ability to compete with casinos, who are working with larger budgets and able to offer attractive amenities, when booking touring acts. Now in its fifth year, Mass Cultural Council has awarded over $17 million to more than 90 organizations across the Commonwealth through this program. Representatives from two performing arts centers receiving Gaming Mitigation Fund awards spoke at the event to detail the impact the grants have had on their organizations. “At the Guthrie Center, we believe that expression of self through the arts is an integral part of building strong community bonds and that together, we can work towards cultivating a deeper awareness of cultural and human diversity within our communities and the world of which we are all a part,” said Annie Guthrie, Executive Director, The Guthrie Center. “We are extremely grateful to Mass Cultural Council for the support they offer to organizations like ours. The resources they provide are crucial to our ability to carry out our mission.” "The FreshGrass Foundation is honored to receive support from the Mass Cultural Council's Gaming Mitigation Fund for our programming of FreshGrass | North Adams at MASS MoCA and at Studio 9 at Porches Inn, which helps us continue celebrating artists while enriching the cultural vitality of the Berkshires,” said Adam Kirr, Chief Operating Officer, FreshGrass Foundation. “This grant strengthens our mission to make live music accessible, vibrant, and sustainable in Northwest Massachusetts and beyond.” Mass Cultural Council was also joined by state Senator Paul Mark (D- Becket) and Jordan Maynard, Chair of the Mass Gaming Commission, to celebrate the awards. "It is wonderful to celebrate these grant awards for performing arts centers right here in the Berkshires, America's premier cultural resort destination!  When the gaming law was passed this important funding component was included to ensure that our local venues would be supported and not eclipsed by a new industry,” said state Senator Paul Mark (D- Becket). “The dollars from these grants will go far to ensure continued economic success and viability for these critical institutions in the Berkshires and beyond." "The programs and organizations supported by the Mass Cultural Council are invaluable assets to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Communities they support," said Jordan Maynard, Chair of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. "Mass Cultural Council’s mission is critical to ensure these organizations are able provide the citizens of the Commonwealth with access to arts and cultural programming."

 

Organization	City/town	Grant
ArtsEmerson	Boston	$80,500
Ashmont Hill Chamber Music	Boston	$6,000
Barrington Stage Company	Pittsfield	$10,500
Bellforge Arts Center	Medfield	$12,400
Boch Center	Boston	$200,000
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity	Northampton	$8,400
Boston Early Music Festival	Cambridge	$84,800
Boston Jazz Foundation	Boston	$6,000
Boston Symphony Orchestra	Boston	$200,000
Cabot Performing Arts Center	Beverly	$200,000
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival	Eastham	$11,300
Cary Memorial Hall	Lexington	$51,400
Celebrity Series of Boston	Boston	$200,000
Center for Arts at the Armory	Somerville	$8,700
Center for Arts in Natick	Natick	$63,000
Cotuit Center for the Arts	Barnstable	$6,700
District Center for the Arts	Taunton	$54,200
Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts	Watertown	$13,600
Franklin Performing Arts Company	Franklin	$6,000
Freshgrass Public Foundation	Williamstown	$85,400
Global Arts Live	Cambridge	$168,700
Grass Roots Cultural and Performing Arts Center	Norwood	$11,700
Groton Hill Music	Groton	$49,500
Guthrie Center	Great Barrington	$6,000
Handel and Haydn Society	Boston	$96,100
Hanover Theatre	Worcester	$200,000
Hibernian Hall	Boston	$6,000
Imagine Studios	Amesbury	$6,000
Inspire Arts and Music	Boston	$17,100
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival	Becket	$125,500
Lowell Festival Foundation	Lowell	$94,700
Lowell Memorial Auditorium	Lowell	$144,900
Lynn Auditorium	Lynn	$200,000
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center	Great Barrington	$67,800
Majestic Theater	West Springfield	$6,800
Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center	Foxborough	$6,800
Mass Arts Center	Mansfield	$6,000
Music Worcester	Worcester	$108,800
Narrows Center for the Arts	Fall River	$97,700
New England Festivals	Falmouth	$6,000
Oversoul Theatre Collective	Wareham	$8,400
Passim	Cambridge	$45,200
Payomet Performing Arts Center	Truro	$95,200
Rockport Music	Rockport	$147,400
School for Contemporary Dance & Thought	Northampton	$6,000
Shea Theater Arts Center	Montague	$12,100
South Shore Music Circus	Cohasset	$200,000
Spire Center for Performing Arts	Plymouth	$63,500
The Jar	Boston	$6,000
The Parlor Room	Northampton	$23,900
The Yard	Chilmark	$33,500
UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center	Amherst	$64,500
Unbroken Wings	Westfield	$6,000
Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture	Boston	$6,000
Williamstown Theatre Festival	Williamstown	$7,500
Winchendon Music Festival	Newton	$6,000
Zeiterion Theatre	New Bedford	$108,000