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From YouTube: Boston Cultural Council 2019 Grantee Reception
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been awarded to arts organizations and projects in the city of Boston by the Cultural Council in 2019. Mayor Walsh recognizes those recipients at a lively celebration at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Fenway.
A
Preparation
of
artists,
designers
and
educators
from
diverse
backgrounds
to
shape
communities,
economies
and
cultures
for
the
common
good.
That's
our
mission
here
and
it's
been
that
since
1873
is
a
public
institution,
it's
your
school!
You
should
be
proud
of
it
and
you're
welcome
on
this
campus
anytime.
We're
especially
glad
that
you're
here
tonight
for
this
celebration
of
artists
in
the
Boston
community.
So
let
me
just
say
this!
Thank
you
to
those
of
you
that
are
grantees
that
are
working
artists
in
the
Boston
community
for
helping
to
make
this
city
more
like
the
place.
A
A
D
Hi
everyone
thanks
so
much
for
joining
us
tonight.
This
is
always
a
really
fun
event
for
us,
because
we
just
get
to
celebrate
all
the
amazing
work
that
everyone
here
is
doing
for
arts
and
culture
in
the
city
of
Boston.
I
want
to
thank
President,
Nelson
and
mass
art
for
having
us
hosting
us
for
this
event,
and
you.
D
B
D
This
year
is
four
hundred
and
eighty
seven
thousand
dollars,
which
includes
one
hundred
and
eighty
seven
thousand
dollars
from
the
state
through
the
Massachusetts,
Cultural
Council
and
three
hundred
thousand
from
the
city
of
Boston,
and
we
know
how
precious
these
resources
are
on.
How
far
everyone
in
this
room
leverages
every
dollar
to
do
the
work
that
you
do,
and
this
is
why
I'm
so
thrilled
that
Mayor
Walsh
has
proposed
a
bill
that
would
establish
a
statewide
Commission
on
tourism
and
arts
and
culture
investment.
This.
D
Dedicated
funds
would
allow
the
city,
but
also
all
the
creatives
organizations
and
partners
in
this
room
to
grow
our
programs
and
support
for
the
Arts
as
we
work
to
get
this
bill
off
the
ground.
I
encourage
all
of
you
to
reach
out
to
your
local
state,
reps
and
Senators,
and
ask
for
their
support
and,
if
you're
interested
in
actually
seeing
the
proposed
legislation-
and
you
want
to
write
down,
you
know
the
numbers
of
those
bills.
D
We've
got
copies
at
the
registration
table
about
front
for
you
to
look
at
I
also
want
to
take
a
moment
to
thank
the
Boston
Cultural
Council
for
everything
that
they
do
to
oversee
this
program.
The
council
is
made
up
of
appointed
volunteers
and
it's
no
small
task
to
implement
this
level
making,
which
includes
hundreds
of
hours
of
grant
review.
If
you're
a
PCC
member
out
there
can
you
stand
or
raise
your
hand?
Can
we
give
them
around
Oh
boss.
C
Hello,
everybody
I
am
delighted
to
be
here,
and
it
is
in
large
part
because
of
the
information
that
I
am
able
to
share
with
you
tonight.
I
am
encouraged
and
thrilled
to
announce
a
plan,
a
pilot
effort
that
reflects
our
growing
commitment
to
equity
in
our
funding
process.
As
a
council,
this
is
very
much
a
first.
We
began.
E
C
Year
was
the
formation
of
an
equity
subcommittee.
That
committee
put
together
a
statement
that
was
ultimately
adopted
as
a
working
equity
statement
by
the
entire
council.
You
can
find
it
online.
It
is
now
published
with
that
statement.
We
began
a
process,
not
end
at
a
process,
and
tonight
we
are
honoring
the
next
step
in
that
process
by
announcing
a
recognition
of
model
equity
organizations.
C
C
D
C
C
This
pilot
is
a
way
to
try
something
and
learn
it's
a
way
for
the
council
to
think
deeply
about
how
this
process
can
inform
future
grant
making.
We
did
not
deliberately
establish
specific
guidelines
for
this
recognition.
However,
we
did
see
themes
emerge
in
those
we're
going
to
be
recognizing
tonight.
All
of
them
turned
out
to
be
broad-based.
C
Multidisciplinary
operations,
all
of
them
had
budgets
under
a
half
million
dollars.
In
fact,
if
you
total,
the
budgets
of
all
of
the
organizations
were
recognizing
you'll
still
be
under
a
half
a
million
dollars
and
they
resource
and
celebrate
diverse
creative
voices
across
the
city.
I
am
also
excited
to
share
that,
with
the
support
of
both
public
and
private
funding.
Each
organization
recognized
tonight
will
receive
an
additional
$5,000
above
their
original
awarded,
grant.
C
And
to
the
nearly
20
finalists,
exemplary
funless,
you
have
helped
us
promote
what
an
equitable
Boston
already
means
through
your
practice.
In
addition
to
Pat
McSweeney
and
Abigail
Norman
raise
your
hands
if
you're
out
there
I
am
going
to
ask
three
other
members
of
the
equity
subcommittee
to
come
up
and
that
will
be
marine
for
Kota,
Bridget,
Brown
and
Jen
Fogg
and
helping
let
you
know
who
these
organizations
are.
B
D
We're
gonna
keep
the
suspense
going
for
a
minute,
because
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
have
a
chance
to
hear
from
Mayor
Walsh
somebody
who's
been
investing
in
the
arts
since
day.
One
is
the
reason
that
the
BCC
funding
from
the
city
is
at
the
level
that
it's
at
today,
so
we're
just
gonna
bring
him
up.
Please
join
me
in
welcoming
you
here.
G
Thank
you
very
much
and
I'll
be
brief,
because
I
apologize
for
being
late,
I
was
stuck
at
City,
Hall
dillan,
a
few
things
he
was
talking
about
risky
I'm
like
I
like
that.
It's
you
know
it's.
What
changing
and
I
can't
see
anybody
here
because
of
the
light,
but
you
seem
like
you're,
very
serious
crowd.
Now.
I
can
see
everyone
I
just
want
to
thank
members
of
the
Boston
Cultural
Council
I
want
thank
our
incredible
office.
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
in
the
room.
G
I
want
to
congratulate
all
the
folks
do
what
is
this?
This
event
has
now
turned
into
one
of
my
favorite
events
in
the
city,
because
this
event
didn't
happen
in
the
past
and
I
love.
The
fact
when
you
hear
the
organization's,
when
you
put
them
all
together,
what
what
your
total
I'll
say,
what
your
total
value
is.
But
what
what
way
your
operating
cost
is.
G
That's
really
the
intention
behind
what
we're
doing
here
tonight
and
our
plan
Bostic
rates
plan
was
a
plan
that
looked
at
all
different
arts
in
the
city
of
Boston,
and
one
of
the
main
focus
was.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
local
artists,
small
art
organizations,
were
able
to
access
money,
and
that's
really
what
tonight's
all
about
so
I
want
to
congratulate.
All
of
you
for
being
here.
I
want
to
congratulate
the
commitment
that
we
have
here
in
the
city
in
the
budget.
G
We
we,
we
didn't,
unveil
our
budget,
yet
we
unveil
it
in
another
week,
but
we're
making
more
investments
in
the
arts
cabinet
to
make
sure
that
we
continue
the
momentum
we're
going
to
continue
to
work
with
mass
cultural
society
to
help
them
with
funding
at
the
state
level.
Mass
cultural
council,
I
should
say
we
also
are
making
sure
that
will
lead
lobby
the
state
for
the
budget
process
this
year
that
we're
going
to
be
lobbying
them
on
the
statewide
level
to
make
more
investment
in
the
arts.
G
I
know
that
when
I
was
a
state
rep
back
in
97,
mass
cultural
council
got
a
lot
more
money
per
capita
fuel
than
they
do
today
and
when
budget
cuts
happened
in
Georgia.
The
answer
funding
that
gets
cut
and
we
have
to
make
sure
I
continue
to
make
sure
the
creative
economy
doesn't
get
cut
because
it's
important
for
the
future
of
our
city.
It's
important
for
the
future
of
our
state
and
we
need
to
continue
to
move
forward.
So
I
want.
G
E
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
So
in
every
question
regarding
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
this
application
gave
a
strong
answer
and
then
continued
into
why
and
how
they
literally
walk
the
walk
and
talk
the
talk
or
talk
the
talk
and
walk
the
walk
most
of
their
team
artists
are
people
of
color
and
come
from
low-income
households
all
attending
the
Boston
Public
Schools.
They
equitably
locate
public
arts
events
in
or
at
the
boundaries
between
low-income,
culturally,
culturally
rich
neighborhoods,
whose
residents
often
feel
excluded
from
the
city's
cultural
life
and
from
Civic
dialogues
that
affect
their
community.
E
When
asked
about
diversity
in
its
programming
and
audiences,
the
organization
organization
listed
17
different
bullet
points
of
specific
actions.
They
are
living
in
extent,
existence
based
on
equitable
practices
and
not
just
ideals
at
all
levels
of
the
organization.
They
are
an
equity
model
for
Boston
there.
Additional
funding
will
provide
siphons
to
youth
artists
for
their
summer
youth
artist
project.
This
organization
is
Bo,
Burnham,
Urbano
project.
B
Ivete
about
the
next
group,
they
are
doing
a
much
more
intentional
job
of
promoting
cultural
equity
and
equity
in
the
arts
through
their
hiring
and
programming
than
anyone.
I
know
it's
baked
into
their
mission
and
the
work
they
do
extremely
explicitly.
They
are
working
diligently
to
physician
artists
of
color
to
be
leaders
in
the
arts
that
are
artists
into
institutional
leaders,
academic
experts,
art
funders
and
CEOs.
B
They
are
working
to
change
the
way
a
paris
held
in
the
boston
arts,
community
they've,
thoroughly
investigated
the
equity
gap
in
arts
and
cultural
resources
published
in
equity
study
and
will
be
holding
an
arts
equity
summit
in
2019
there.
Additional
funding
will
help
provide
tickets
for
the
arts,
equity
summit,
supporting
local
artists
and
cultural
organizers
attendance.
It
will
also
aid
in
publishing
and
disseminating
findings
from
the
next
phases
of
their
cultural
equity
gap.
Study
set
to
release
this
fall.
F
Our
final
awardee
tonight
is
a
traveling
multi-discipline
live
arts
and
music
education
and
entertainment
series
that
helps
audiences
and
audiences
of
color
redefine
how
they
experience
and
relate
to
all
forms
of
artistic
expression
in
underutilized
public
spaces.
They
intentionally
provide
safe
space,
an
intimate
engagement
for
audiences
and
artists
of
color
to
connect,
build
community
and
relate
with
one
another.
Their
application
articulated
the
cultural
and
systematic
silos
that
exist
in
Boston
and
give
need
for
their
work,
I,
valued
and
appreciated
their
social
justice
approach.
F
D
All
right,
thank
you
to
everyone
to
all
of
our
awardees
our
model
equity
organizations
this
year.
This
has
been
a
really
interesting
experiment,
as
Ann
was
saying-
and
it's
will
continue
to
iterate
on
this
and
learn
from
what
it
means
to
really
think
about
the
kind
of
work
around
equity
that
our
arts
and
culture
organizations
are
doing.
So,
congratulations
to
them.
Congratulations
to
all
of
the
Boston
cultural
grantees,
your
work
in
which
is
the
arts
and
culture
community
in
Boston,
but
it
impacts
the
whole
city.
So
please.