Asian Arts Initiative
Artist/collaborator:  Regie Cabico
Project Title:  "Beyond the 6th Borough" Local Artists Residencies
Project Description:  To enable Asian Arts Initiative to offer creative residencies and mini-commissions for local artists to develop and perform their work. “Beyond the 6th Borough” builds upon an NPN Residency and Creation Fund award with Washington, DC-based artist Regie Cabico.
NPN Subsidy:  $5,000

Junebug Productions, Inc.
Artist/collaborator:  Sourthern Roots Collecgive
Project Title:  Free Southern Theater Institute Spring Workshop
Project Description:  Free Southern Theater Institute and Southern Roots Collective Spring Workshop JPI’s new program, which will premiere with this project, The Free Southern Theater Institute (FSTI), will partner with the artists of The Southern Roots Collective (SRC) to teach their 6-week FSTI Winter/Spring ‘08 workshop.  The SRC artists will teach at the beginning of the workshop (which is a Community Fund Project) and then will return at the end of the workshop for the NPN Residency, where they will have more workshops with the students, see the students’ performances and the SRC artists will themselves perform.
NPN Subsidy:  $5,000

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Artist/Collaborator:  Glenis Redmond
Project Title:  Monumental Spoken Word Performance Project
Project Description:  Continuing and deepening the work she will do in a residency in February 2008, Glenis will return to Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center to work with the students and adults with whom she will have built spoken word poetry. She will reconnect with the participants in a week of workshops culminating in a combined Poetry Slam performance for the public.
NPN Subsidy:  $4,000