City of Dublin Pilots Arts Space Grants Program

From City of Dublin:

The City of Dublin is piloting a new Arts Space Grant program that will let non-profit arts organizations apply to use City of Dublin facilities and the Dublin High Center for Performing Arts and Education free of charge for up to 40 hours. Smaller arts groups operating under the auspices of a non-profit fiscal sponsor are also eligible.

The city will host a mandatory informational meeting for interested arts groups on Friday, Sept. 9 at Dublin City Hall, Regional Meeting Room, 100 Civic Plaza. The deadline to apply online is Thursday, Sept. 15. Dublin’s Heritage and Cultural Arts Commission will review requests at its Oct. 13 meeting, and the Dublin City Council will make awards Nov. 1. Applications are available online through a link found on the city’s website. Applicants need not be Dublin based, but programs must serve Dublin residents.

The city’s goal is to foster the arts in Dublin and make a wider variety of arts programs available here by providing in-kind support to arts organizations. Applicants are provided a short list of the city’s cultural arts goals and asked to elaborate on how their program will help meet those goals and how they will measure success of their program. Following completion of this pilot program in June 2017, the city council will decide whether to offer Arts Space Grants in the future.

For more information on the Arts Space Grant pilot project, contact tegan.mclane@dublin.ca.gov or (925) 556-4565.

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