Waltham Cultural Council
The Waltham Cultural Council supports the arts, humanities, and sciences through grants and advocacy for nonprofit cultural organizations, schools, and artists. Through our efforts, we strive to make our community a better place to live, work, and visit. As a public investor in the arts, humanities, and sciences, we work to ensure everyone in our community has a place in our rich cultural life.
We fund activities and events that celebrate cultural diversity and local history, engage the community, and increase access to arts education for the Waltham community. Priority is given to projects that support initiatives with a specific focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
New applicants are encouraged to apply.
Contact
Eileen Peng
walthamculturalcouncil@gmail.com
781-530-4897
Address
610 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02452
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Application Information
FY25 Allocation
$32,200
FY25 Local Priorities
Projects that support:
-Diversity, equity and inclusion
-Neighborhood revitalization
-Exposing school-aged children to the arts
-Artist’s living and work spaces
Events that:
-Celebrate local history and cultural diversity
-Involve the community and neighborhoods
-Promote arts education in schools
Focusing on the following communities:
-Low-income
-Communities of color
-Immigrant communities
-Teens
FY25 Local Guidelines
The Waltham Cultural Council supports the arts, humanities, and sciences through grants and advocacy for nonprofit cultural organizations, schools, and artists. Through our efforts, we strive to make our community a better place to live, work, and visit. As a public investor in the arts, humanities, and sciences, we work to ensure everyone in our community has a place in our rich cultural life.
We fund activities and events that celebrate cultural diversity and local history, engage the community, and increase access to arts education for the Waltham community. Priority is given to projects that support initiatives with a specific focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
New applicants are encouraged to apply. Applicants that meet the council priorities will be more likely to receive funds than those that do not.
How Grant Recipients Are Paid
Reimbursement Grants
FY24 Funding List
| Name | Project Title | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| African Cultural Services, Inc. | Your Story Matters Magazine | $500 | African Cultural Services, Inc. | African instruments playing, Dance and Perform Series | $1,500 | Alive Dance Collective, LLC | StoryBook Movement Workshops with Alive Dance Collective and ArtRelief | $1,000 | Bereaud, Philip Alexander | Sing, Play, Grow! Children’s Music Enrichment | $900 | Chen, Hudson | Travel through the Art & History of the Silk Road | $1,400 | Community Farms Outreach, Inc. | Farm Day/Dia de la Granja 2023 | $1,500 | Crescendo Productions, LLC | The Stones Cry Out: Grove Hill Cemetery | $900 | Discovery Museum, Inc. | Open Door Connections | $400 | Douglas MacArthur Elementary School | Lotus Lanterns with the Korean Cultural Project | $420 | Douglas MacArthur Elementary School | Science/Cultural enrichment programming for K-5 Students | $500 | Dowcett, Kathleen | Community Arts Project | $1,250 | Downtown Waltham Partnership, Inc. | Watch City Steampunk Festival | $1,500 | Downtown Waltham Partnership, Inc. | Waltham Riverfest 2024 | $1,500 | Druyan, Ron | Tiny Tutti | $500 | Ethnic Arts Center of Somerville, Inc. | Part 3-"MANY CULTURES, ONE PEOPLE!" African American Heritage Renactment Puppetry Shows | $1,000 | Friends of the Waltham Family School, Inc | Music in Motion | $1,000 | Frostig, Karen | Locker of Memory/Day of Remembrance: Mourning Shroud for 800 souls | $500 | Gore Place Society | The Federal Period: Shaping a Nation Field Trip | $500 | Hart, Francis | The “Beat Generation” - A Cultural Review of the 1950s Through Music | $375 | Henry Whittemore Elementary School | Access Puppetry Arts | $500 | Henry Whittemore School Parent-Teacher Organization, Inc. | Cinco de Mayo celebration | $650 | Kelly, Kaye | SheGrooves; Using Our Voices for Positive Change | $500 | Lahiri, Chandreyee | 'We are Waltham' storytelling show | $1,000 | Lucci, Jessica | Watch City Readers | $250 | MUSIC Dance.edu | Hip Hop Chair Dance for Seniors! a dance series | $500 | MUSIC Dance.edu | I am Autistic I am Fantastic - The Musical | $500 | McDevitt Parent-Teacher Organization, Inc. | McDevitt Multicultural Night | $500 | Metalwerx, Inc. | Design, Create, Wear: Stamping on Metal | $375 | Nath, Anjali | Khelna (Play) | $350 | Nelson, Sarah Jane | Music for Waltham Fields Community Farm | $450 | Opportunities for Inclusion, Inc. | Bringing Inspiration to Opportunities For Inclusion and Beyond | $1,000 | Powers Music School, Inc. | Watch City Singers at Waltham Council on Aging | $1,000 | Radio Uganda Boston Boston Inc | SUMMER SPLASH | $1,000 | Shalom-Kobii, Tal Shalom | Women for Peace and Social Justice | $1,000 | Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Inc. | Recovering the Stories of Domestic Workers at Lyman Estate | $1,000 | The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts | ArtReach: Mosesian Arts Storytime & Story Explorers Project | $1,500 | The Waltham Museum, Inc. | Something Funny's Going on at the Waltham Museum | $300 | The Waltham Museum, Inc. | Saturday Social Series | $1,000 | Thomas R. Plympton Elementary School | Plympton School Multicultural Night | $500 | Thomas R. Plympton Elementary School | Penguin Palooza! | $500 | Umbrell, Roz | Aerospace & Rocketry Club Community Launch Event | $400 | Waltham Arts Council, Inc. | Waltham Concerts on the Common | $1,500 | Waltham Boys & Girls Club | See ME | $1,500 | Waltham Dual Language School | All School Cultural Assembly | $500 | Waltham Historical Society, Inc. | Waltham Historical Society's Edmund Sanderson Lecture Series | $1,000 | Waltham Land Trust, Inc. | Eyes on Owls of the World | $500 | Waltham Mills Artist Association | 2024 Waltham Open Studios | $1,000 | Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. | Two Waltham Philharmonic Concerts including Pops with Student Soloist | $1,150 | Waltham Public Library | Adult Programs | $2,500 | Waltham Public Library Children's Room | Children's Programs at the Library | $2,000 | Waltham Public Library Teen Room | WPL Teen Room Graffiti Camp 2024 | $1,500 | Waterman, Jon | Live Music Making History Live | $300 | Westwater Weekes, Naomi | The Reclamation Project: Honoring the Voices of People of Color in Folk Music | $700 | Yorick Ensemble | Yorick Ensemble Presents: Gruesome Playground Injuries | $250 | York, Matt | Matt York - Songs & Stories: Willie Nelson | $500 | Zaino, Nick | 100 Years Of Boston Comedy | $250 |
