Community Arts Access Grant is due next Friday, November 8. Email and mailed copies must be submitted by midnight 11/8/19.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via email: sharon@artsforeveryone.com or by my cell phone: 815-988-3981

The Rockford Area Arts Council’s City Arts Action Grants are available for individual artists, arts organizations and non-profit organizations in Winnebago County. Grant maximum is $350.

Funding is available September 1, 2019 through August 1, 2020 or until funds are depleted.

For questions please call the Arts Council at 815-963-6765.

Access Grant Application

Action Grant Application

 A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the state arts agencies, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition to high schools across the country. Schools that choose to participate in Poetry Out Loud start the program in the classroom, where participating teachers may use the Poetry Out Loud toolkit to teach poetry recitation and run classroom competitions.

Students select, memorize, and recite poems from an anthology of more than 1,000 classic and contemporary poems. Beginning at the classroom level, winners will advance to the school-wide competition, then to the state competition, and ultimately to the national finals in Washington, DC.

Regional Competition: Tuesday, February 18^th, 2020 in Rockford, Il.

Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FQRW0QEac

Check out the website: https://www.poetryoutloud.org

Contact us

Poetry Out Loud Regional Coordinator
Kate Kilgore
k.kilgore@artsforeveryone.com