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Creative Industries in Polk County - The Cultural Arts Sector

• Arts on the Park - The 2010 Members Show II Winners

• ExplorationsV Does it again! Official Nickelodeon Parents' Picks nominee!VOTE
  

  They are once again an official nominee for Nickelodeon’s Parents’ Picks Award. Voting is taking place now through August 31.

  http://www.parentsconnect.com/parents-picks/index to vote (go to “Places” then “Tampa” then “Museums”)

• CALL TO FLORIDA WOMEN ARTISTS
  Show title:  First Annual Juried Exhibition

  July 31, 2010*  – Postmark deadline for applications

           Florida Museum for Women Artists

           Exhibition Dates – November 19, 2010 – February 6, 2011

http://www.floridamuseumforwomenartists.org/exhibitions/call-for-artists/

• Lakeland Choral Society, begins singer auditions for the 2010-2011 season on August 22.  Information and contacts regarding audition dates and times are at the LCS website:  lakelandchoralsociety.org 

• Save the Date: September 1- Downtown Lakeland

          Want Cutting Edge …Can You Pecha Kucha Presented by Polk

         County Design Professionals and Platform Art

          What the heck is is "peh-cha koo-cha" you say? Find out here-

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha

Opportunities for the Arts and Artists

GRANT: Art in State Buildings at University of Florida - A Call to Artists

Deadline July 1, 2010

Florida Division of Cultural Affairs - Grants and Links

ART & ARCHITECTURE in Polk County

•  Frank Lloyd Wright @ Florida Southern College
•  Gene Leedy Tour and Map in Winter Haven ( photos on display at Polk State College)

Arts in Education

Florida Southern College- Senior Graphic Design on Display

Need Summer Help? List your Company for Intern help at Fl. Southern College web site - www.flsouthern.edu/career- click on College Centeral.

Polk State College - Award Winning Art Professor/Vilas Tonape

Southeastern University -Students Create Children's TV Show

CAMPS! Where are they?

• BOK Tower Gardens

• Explorations V Summer Camp: Starts 6/14/2010

• Florida Dance Theatre : Starts July 12- Aug. (4 sessions avail)
• K.A.f.E - 2010 Kids Arts for Education Summer Theatre Camp- July 12 - 23 at Dixieland Elementary School -Disney's The JUNGLE Book!

• Lakeland Community Theatre: July 19-July30

• PMoA-Starts June 14 - August
  

• Theatre Winter Haven Theatre Camp: Starts June 14

Cultural Art Happenings in Polk County!

      Frostproof Art League and Gallery

      Calendar of Events

CHECK IT OUT...

Arts Resources, Links and Information

faae.org

Video of "Arts Build Communities" Congressional Hearing

April 15, 2010—Video of all testimony from the "Arts Build Communities" Congressional hearing on art funding.

FLORIDA CULTURAL ALLIANCE

URGENT  

Do you know that Florida is now ranked 49th in per capita funding for arts and culture according to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies?  Our State now only invests 14 cents per Floridian on arts and cultural development (and the proposed budget is even worse!) 

A Geat Big

THANK YOU

to our Sponsors for Making the

4th Annual Race for the Arts & Wellness Expo

a Success

FLORIDA REFUSE and...

Economic Impact of the Arts Study

http://www.polktaxes.com/kidtags/KidTags2009.asp

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Polk County is strategically located in the center of the Florida peninsula. Polk lies on the Interstate-4 corridor, 25 miles east of Tampa and 35 miles southwest of Orlando. As the geographic center of Florida, it is estimated that more than 7.5 million people reside within a 100 mile radius of Polk County. This is one of the largest concentrations of  population in the southeast.

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