THE LONG ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL AT FREEPORT IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF SERVING THE LONG ISLAND ARTS COMMUNITY AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
If you are an LIACF Affiliate, have a website and would like to be a featured artist on the Long Island Arts Council Website, please participate in our link exchange program.
If you do not have a website, visit our web design site - we will gladly help you to get your art on the web. Then you'll be granted a Featured artist spot on this site.
Like many non-profit organizations, the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport relies on the generosity of individuals and businesses to provide a variety of programs and services to artists, cultural organizations, and the community. Please click below to support the Arts Council. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The Long Island Arts Council at Freeport administers High 5 Long Island - a program providing teenagers with $5 tickets to cultural events and special youth programming, recommends artists for employment and exhibit opportunities, is active in community development, donates musical instruments to schools in underserved communities, sponsors an annual juried photography show, coordinates art classes, presents concerts and exhibits, manages an international musical composition contest, organizes craft fairs, hosts arts networking opportunities, coordinates management seminars, implements an online Culture Calendar and online listing of opportunities for artists, and more.
HIGH 5 LONG ISLAND OFFERS STUDENTS $5 TICKETS TO CULTURAL EVENTS! Attention Teenagers! If you are 13-19 years of age, join High 5 Long Island to attend cultural events throughout Long Island for only $5 per ticket. Attention Cultural Organizations! Seeking a younger audience to fill empty seats? Join High 5 Long Island and the Arts Council will help promote your events to teens. High 5 Long Island is supported by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Target, and individual contributors. Click the links above left to learn more about High 5 Long Island.
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Special thanks to Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg for providing us with funding to renovate our exhibit space. This will ensure the safety of the artwork and provide a more accessible viewing space for the public.
Seeking… volunteers to serve on our fundraising committee, a technician to upgrade our phone system, silk plants, and printers.
Be sure to view the Culture Calendar for a schedule of performances, exhibits, and special events presented by the Arts Council's Affiliates. The Arts Council will do its best to regularly update this calendar but it is always wise to confirm program information before attending an event.
Photo caption: Pianist Elizabeth Oh, a junior at the Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, is a featured performer with the North Shore Symphony Orchestra at their concert on Sunday, March 7. The family concert, entitled "Spectacular Sounds" will be held at the POB JFK High School at 3pm.
View the Mytho-Fantastical Sculpture Garden designed by artist Sheldon Aptekar at the Arts Council's NEW exhibit site in the rear lobby of the Freeport Recreation Center. The exhibit will be on display through March 31, 2010.
Check back for the next class. Location: Freeport Recreation Center Support the Arts Council while saving 10% off your insurance premium and removing up to 4 points off your driving record.
Saturdays, January 23 and February 6, 2010 Instructor: Marc Courtade TRaC is a unique opportunity for high school students interested in journalism and the arts to develop critical writing skills and a deeper understanding of different artistic disciplines. For the winter 2010 TRaC program, teens will learn to write a critical review of a performance of "Hairspray" at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.
Click the link below for details and registration information.
Supported by Sam Ash Music Stores Contest Chair: Herb Rothgarber Judges: Jay Anthony Gach and Dana Richardson
Fifty-nine entries were received from all over the world, including England, Australia, Canada, Italy, Belgium, New Zealand, and the United States. The winning composition will be performed at the Long Island Composers Alliance Music for Students program on March 21, 2010 at the Freeport Memorial Library at 2pm.
FIRST PRIZE: Amanda Jacobs of Rochester, NY for Garden Verses for voice and piano SECOND PRIZE: Sang Mi Ahn of Bloomington, IN for Two Pieces for violin and piano
Have a musical instrument gathering dust in your closet? Donate it to the Arts Council's MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MARKETPLACE and we will find a home for it. We have donated numerous instruments to school districts in need. Let us find a home for yours.
Seeking photographs of Freeport! Parr Ventures, a company specializing in municipal marketing, is working with the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport and Village of Freeport's Community Development Agency on a streetscape banner program.
Photo caption: A banner that will be on display as part of the Freeport Streetscape Banner Program.
EXCITING PROGRAMS FOR LONG ISLAND’S YOUTH The Long Island Philharmonic, now in its 30th year as the only professional orchestra serving both Nassau and Suffolk Counties, proudly maintains the standard for music excellence and education. The Long Island Arts Council at Freeport is pleased to announce these opportunities to work together to provide outlets for kids and teens to grow and explore a passion for music.
Click the link below for exciting opportunities for youth.
The Long Island Arts Council at Freeport is affiliated with the Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership.
The mission of the Center is to promote excellence in leadership by providing multifaceted resources that are responsive to the needs of Long Island's nonprofit sector. The Center is housed in the School of Social Work at Adelphi University.
The Center's new program, "It's All About The Relationship! Building a Productive Nonprofit Board Chair and Executive Partnership" is an interactive workshop focused on the vitally important relationship between the Board Chair and CEO/ED. Please visit their website at www.adelphi.edu/linonprofit and click The Nonprofit Board Chair and Executive: Building a Productive Partnership link to learn more about the program and how you can register.
30th Annual Juried Photography Show co-sponsored by Astoria Federal Savings; Musical Theatre Experience summer workshop for youth; Carol Ann Bernardini Memorial Scholarship Project; New Gallery Enclosure; and much more
Photo caption: Foam Surreal by John Micheals, Best in Show from the Arts Council's 29th Annual Juried Photography Show
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CULTURE CALENDAR, JANUARY - MARCH 2010
NEW EXHIBIT SITE - SCULPTURE GARDEN
CLUB FREEPORT
THE ART ALCOVE EXHIBIT - MURIEL HERRING
DEFENSIVE DRIVING
HIGH 5 LONG ISLAND`S TEEN REVIEWERS AND CRITICS (TRaC) PROGRAM
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL COMPOSITION CONTEST
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MARKETPLACE
2009 - A YEAR IN REVIEW
FREEPORT WALKING TRAIL
STREETSCAPE BANNER PROGRAM
COLLABORATION WITH THE LONG ISLAND PHILHARMONIC
LONG ISLAND CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP
AFFILIATED DANCE PROGRAMMING
COMING SOON...