Lourdes' Theater Vision awarded multiple grants
As Lourdes' Theater Vision prepares for Season 24, it is with pleasure that we announce several grants awarded to the program. Theater Vision is the recipient of an Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts grant and a competitive Ohio Arts Council grant.
The $2,000 grant from Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts Fund will allow Theater Vision to bring audiences the story of Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, a production based on the Caldecott Award-winning book by John Steptoe.
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters is sometimes referred to as the “African Cinderella tale.” The story follows Mufaro’s daughters, two young women of very different dispositions who encounter challenging adventures as they travel through Zimbabwe to appear before a great king. Filled with colorful authentic costumes, stylistic sets, lyrical dance and traditional chanting and African song, this presentation of a famous fairy-tale celebrates goodness, generosity and love. Theater Vision is offering two showings of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters in February 2009.
  
Theater Vision was also awarded an Ohio Arts Council grant totaling $12,160. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund Theater Vision with state tax dollars in order to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
For more information about Theater Vision and for the full season schedule, call 419-824-3968 or visit www.franciscancenter.org and click on “Theater Vision / Arts Workshops.”
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