181 Massachusetts festivals to receive grants of $1,500 each
Applications are due March 1 for festivals happening between March 1 and August 31, 2022.
99 Fall/Winter Festivals Awarded Grants Totaling $148,500
Funding to help festival programmers meet the needs of producing, promoting, and developing audiences.
118 festivals from across the state received a total of $59,000.
With the help of our Festivals Audience Lab cohort and ArtsBoston, we've developed an online resource for festival and event producers.
$500 grants to help festival programmers meet the needs of producing, promoting, and developing audiences.
With most spring and summer festivals postponed or cancelled, festival producers, artists, and community stakeholders are coming together to process how that will impact the livelihood of towns and cities, and to explore new and creative ways of engaging audiences.
As part of our commitment to support the sustainability and viability of festivals in Massachusetts, we have enlisted 10 festivals to take part in a year-long Festivals Audience Lab.
Congratulation to the recipients of our 2019 Spring/Summer Festivals grants. 137 festivals were awarded grants of $500 each.
Thanks to all who joined our 13 regional meetings across the state last summer, giving us an opportunity to talk about our strategic plan and Power of Culture messaging platform. Did you know that we’ve also created a messaging platform to help you make a compelling case for arts and culture in your community?
Congratulations to the Fall/Winter grantees from our Festivals Program! Celebrate the vibrancy of our communities at these festivals - and more - throughout the season.
Local Cultural Councils Reimagine Their Role in Community-wide Planning
We conducted a series of 13 regional meetings across the state this summer as a follow up to the Mass Cultural Council Institute held in March 2018. The meetings gave us an opportunity to convene cities and towns by region to talk about our new strategic plan and Power of Culture messaging platform.
