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Each month we feature arts and community-based organizations and their programs and projects funded by the Delaware Division of the Arts in our Arts Spotlight which will be included on our monthly e-newsletter, Arts E-News and online.

Funding for Division of the Arts grants is provided by the Delaware General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. To view past grants awarded (1999 to present), please visit our Grants Awarded page.

Grant Types: GOS – General Operating Support; PS – Project Support

May 2025

 

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Capital Ringers
Handbell Concerts
Milford
General Operating Support

Capital Ringers, Inc. seeks to ignite hearts and minds through the power of music. We seek to inspire the community throughout the year in the art of handbell music. Capital Ringers, Inc. is a community handbell ensemble based in Southern Delaware, and has two ringing ensembles (beginner/intermediate and advanced/auditioned). Ringers come from across Southern Delaware and Maryland to rehearse and provide handbell concerts throughout the year for the local communities. Various community members participate behind the scenes to make each of our concert seasons a success. We have a large audience who come out to hear our performances each season at one of our 10-12 yearly concerts. Our concerts are thematic and feature video presentations that go along with each of the selections for the concerts.

Learn more at www.capitalringers.org

Southern Delaware Chorale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Southern Delaware Chorale
Almost, Maine
Rehoboth Beach
General Operating Support

The Southern Delaware Chorale will be presenting “In Her Own Words”, a concert which celebrates female composers, lyricists and performers on May 10, 2025 at Epworth United Methodist Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. For too long in history, female musicians were silenced. From not being able to sing in places of worship in the middle ages to not being given the opportunity to compose in the baroque and classical period, female musicians’ opportunity to create music has been stifled.

On May 10, the Southern Delaware Chorale, under the direction of Joseph Shortall and Sarah Rose, will celebrate female composers with music that spans over a thousand years. During the first set of music, the chorale will perform repertoire from composers long ago (Hildegard von Bingen, Lili Boulanger) through contemporary selections by Elaine Hagenberg, Andrea Ramsey and Rosephanye Powell. The second set of music features music from three living composers, Carol Barnett, B.E Boykin and Carly Simon’s, “Let the River Run.”

The Southern Delaware Chorale serves the Sussex County community with quality classical music with three performances each season. The Chorale will be celebrating their 40th anniversary next December, 2025 and will be performing Handel’s Messiah in collaboration with SODELO. concerts will be held on December 13 and 14, 2025 at Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, DE.

To learn more visit https://southerndelawarechorale.org/

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Wilmington Alliance
Arts in the Neighborhood
Wilmington
Project Support

Wilmington Alliance brings people together to drive innovative solutions, leverage resources and promote opportunities to empower the city’s residents and businesses. The Alliance works to make Wilmington a more beautiful, safer, and thriving city that provides opportunity for all through our programs in Workforce Development; Entrepreneur and Small Business Support; and Creative Placemaking.

Arts in the Neighborhood 2025 continues our series of free programming held in three Alliance-created West Center City spaces in downtown Wilmington. Outdoors, programs are held in The Rock Lot (at 305 West 8th Street) and the 7th & West Streets Community Park from May 2025 through October 2025. In 2023, we opened the Art O Mat and now offer programming in this indoor space (year-round) at 7th and Washington Streets. Programs will continue to feature Delaware performing artists in arts events especially targeted to engage adults and families who live, work, or visit downtown.

To learn more visit www.wilmingtonalliance.org

The projects above are supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes these and other Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com.

The Division offers a variety of grant programs for individual artists; nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations chartered and based in Delaware; and schools and government entities that support arts activities. View a full list of Division grants on the Grants Overview page.