Nahant Cultural Council News

September 5, 2024:
Virtual Info Session on local cultural council (Nahant) grant applications process.

September 1, 2024:

Applications for Nahant Cultural Council (NCC) grants will be accepted from September 1 through October 16, 2024.  More information is available on our FY2025 Grant Application page.

August 23, 2024:

The Mass Cultural Council allocates $5,700 to the Nahant Cultural Council for FY2025 grant funding.

August 1, 2024:
Online Gallery posted of ‘Celebrate Nahant: Images of Our Town, Past, and Present: A Community Photography Exhibition.”

July 8, 2024:
Thank you to everyone who participated and coming to view this first ever Nahant photography exhibition! We are especially grateful for your support and donations that helped the Cultural Council make the exhibit possible. Special thanks to the Nahant Preservation Trust and the Nahant Historical Society for their support and assistance with this Town-wide photography exhibition event!

Previous Grant Awards

FY2024:
Susan Cadigan, Organ Harmony Qi Gong: $566
Johnson Elementary School, Origami, Math, and Marine Science: $1,100
Open Space/Recreation Committee, Winter Waterfowl of Nahant: $500
Nahant Public Library, Bird Buddy: $300
Katharina Radlberger,
String quartet 'Fin de Siècle': "1893: Looking East / Looking West
": $2,950
Nahant Cultural Council, Celebrate Nahant: Images of Our Town, Past, and Present: A Community Photography Exhibition, $1,100

FY2023:
The Delvena Theater Company, The Incredible Mae West!: $625
Nahant Historical Society,
Flights of Fancy: The Live Passions of the artist Norman Laliberte
, $5,564
Katharina Radlberger, New Beginnings, Learning from Each Other - Merging the Old World and the New World: $2,313



About The Nahant Cultural Council

The Nahant Cultural Council (NCC) promotes excellence, education, diversity, and inclusion in the arts, humanities, and science by awarding grants funded by the Mass Cultural Council. Over the past few years, this funding has supported a variety of programs in Nahant, such as:

- Art, Nature, Nahant: Celebrations of arts and crafts, music, poetry, and dance
- Ellingwood Chapel Concert Series
- Christmas Concerts
- Nahant Music Festivals
- Forty Steps Dance
- Bridging the Divide - Respectful Conversations, an initiative of the Village Church
- Programs in collaboration with the Nahant Council on Aging, the Johnson School, the Nahant Historical Society, and the Nahant Library

The Nahant Cultural Council is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.