Festival Announces 2020 Artists’ Award Recipients
Dimensional Dance Skyler Hagner Iddi Saaka Thomas/Ortiz Dance Emily Breeze Marialena DiFabbio Julie Fitzpatrick We're excited to announce that we've named six Connecticut performing artists as recipients of our 2020 Artists’ Awards. Each awardee will get a $2,500...
Connecticut Offers Grants to Artists in Pandemic
COVID-19 has led to the complete shutdown of gatherings of people as the government tries to slow the spread of the virus. Businesses have either closed, with staff working from home where possible, or have remained open but under strict guidelines. Things like...
Artists’ Award Criteria & Rules
OverviewThe Guilford Performing Arts Festival Artists’ Awards were created to support the development of new work by Connecticut performing artists and to provide a vehicle for premiering new work at the festival. They are artistic/creativity awards, not income-relief...
Artists’ Awards Grant Applications Open May 31
We're tripling the number of Artists’ Awards this year to six, and the total grant money available to $15,000, in an effort to support the creation of new work by Connecticut performing artists and provide some relief for artists who have lost income during the...
Noah Baerman Completes Work on Cliff Palace
Pianist Noah Baerman, recipient of the inaugural Guilford Performing Arts Festival Artists’ Award in Music, recently put the finishing touches on his extended jazz composition, Cliff Palace, after working on it for much of a year. He sent us an email on September 3,...
Susan Cinoman Reports Progress on Artists’ Award-Winning Play Guenevere
Playwright Susan Cinoman, our 2019 Artists’ Award winner in drama, has been busy reworking her play Guenevere for presentation at the festival in September. A staged reading is scheduled for Saturday, September 28, at the Christ Episcopal Church in Guilford, our home...
Coast Guard Band to Perform at Festival; Will Do Side-by-Side Performance with GHS Wind Ensemble
The United States Coast Guard Band, one of America’s premier military concert bands, will perform on Sunday, September 29, as part of the Guilford Performing Arts Festival. The free show, to be held at the Guilford High School (GHS) Performing Arts Center, will...
Pilobolus to Perform and Teach at Festival
The internationally acclaimed dance company Pilobolus will perform, teach in the public schools, and hold dance and movement classes for the public as part of the 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival. Pilobolus will present a full-company performance of “Come to...
Guilford Receives $5,000 Humanities Grant for Performing Arts Festival
The Connecticut Humanities Council, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities, has awarded the Town of Guilford and the Guilford Performing Arts Festival a $5,000 grant. The money is being used to help bolster humanities programming within the...
Shoreline Ballet Sponsors Festival, Curates Dance Program
So many thanks to Shoreline Ballet and its director, Katie Contessa, for sponsoring the 2019 festival at the Major level! This outstanding dance studio in Guilford is helping support the cost of an innovative dance performance, teaching and public-service program,...
Afro Bop Alliance to Perform for Festival Benefit on Guilford Green
The Latin Grammy award-winning Afro Bop Alliance Latin jazz sextet will be the featured entertainment as the 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival kicks off on Thursday, September 26, with a benefit dinner under a tent on the historic Guilford Green. The...
Benefit Dinner on the Green to Kick off Festival
The 2019 Guilford Performing Arts Festival will kick off on Thursday, September 26, with an exclusive Dinner on the Green for patrons and guests, held under a tent on the historic Guilford town green.The elegant evening will feature a farm-to-table-style dinner with...
Festival Announces Two Dozen More Performers
We've just announced a second wave of 24 performers, bringing to more than 60 the number of artists committed to the 2019 festival. More performers, including several national “marquee” names and artists who will teach in the public schools, will be announced in the...
First Wave of 2019 Performers Announced
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve lined up 38 performers in our first wave of commitments to the 2019 festival! We’re continuing to review applications and will announce a second wave, including several national “marquee” names, in early July. A full schedule...
Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Makes Grant to Festival
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has granted the festival $4,000. The grant will help support the festival’s diverse performance and educational programming, as well as a pilot community-service project in which members of a contemporary dance company...
Essex Savings Bank Joins Festival as Sponsor
Welcome and thank you to Essex Savings Bank, which has signed on as a festival sponsor for the first time, joining us at the Silver level.Based in Essex, the 168-year-old bank has Shoreline branches in Madison. Old Saybrook and Old Lyme.We appreciate your...
Welcome, Mia Kriksciun!
Those of you who have met or spoken to her already know this, but we’re very fortunate to have Mia Sage Kriksciun working with us this summer as an intern, helping out in marketing and production. Mia’s a recent graduate of Middletown High School, a singer,...
Guilford Foundation Renews Support for Festival
The Guilford Foundation, whose initial grant provided the seed money for the first Guilford Performing Arts Festival in 2017, is supporting us in 2019 with another substantial grant.Funding from the foundation has been critical in enabling us to bring a few national...
Whitfield & Water Shoppes Sponsors Festival
Whitfield & Water Shoppes, a collection of stores, offices and residences in downtown Guilford, is supporting us as a platinum-level sponsor and exclusive sponsor of a patrons’ event that will open the 2019 festival. Watch this space, as we plan to announce...
Paid Internship Available
The Guilford Performing Arts Festival has an opening for a paid intern, and we're looking for a college student, emerging creative professional or military veteran for a roughly four-month position in marketing and production. The intern will work approximately 250...