Hi Fireflies! Just a final reminder that Creativity Grant and Legacy Grant applications are due this Saturday, February 28, by midnight. Grants are being handled this year through the Art Grants web portal - please submit your grants here:
You can read more details on Creativity Grants, intended to support and promote radically-expressive, community-based, interactive and/or collaborative projects and available in $150, $300, $500, and $700 tiers, here:
You can read more details on Legacy Grants, available to *returning* projects that need funding for minor repairs and modifications, here:
Art Grants Committee:
If you're not submitting your own grant application, but would still like to help make these grants happen, we still need a couple more people to join the Creativity Grants committee!
1. You must have attended at least 1 (one) previous Firefly in order to
join and participate in this most august of selection committees.
2. You must not be applying for a 2015 Art Grant.
3. You must be available for both of the meeting discussion dates, taking place at Velir in Davis Square. These will be beer and dinner-fueled and may be lively at times:
* Thursday March 5, 7 to 10 pm
* Thursday March 12, 7 to 10 pm
4. Commit to reading and recording your thoughts on over 40 applications, which may take 4 - 6 hours of brain time.
The Intense Details:
The job requires a lot of reading and talking, as we typically receive over 35+ applications for Creativity Grants. We will have 2 meetings over the course of 2 weeks to make decisions about which grants to fund.
This is a commitment of about 10 hours; 4-6 hours of reading and cogitating and two 2-hour meetings where we hash it all out. Once the application deadline has passed, the committee has about a week to read the applications over and fill out a review sheet to decide how well each application met the criteria. We review the applications for Thoughtfulness, Creativity, and Feasibility.
This is followed by an evening dinner and beer/wine-fueled meeting where we compare notes and see if we have any follow-up questions for the applicants (we *always* have follow-up questions). We wait a week to give time for artists to get their replies back to us, then we meet again and make our final decisions.
Thanks! <3
Alyce, Dennis, and Nathan
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