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Arts Czar(ina) JoAnn Wheeler has passed on some upcoming grant ops:

CREATIVITY MINI GRANTS
Ezra Jack Keats FoundationDeadline: 9/15/07Grants of up to $500 are available to public schools and libraries for creative programs. Past grants have funded projects including bookmaking, creation and performance of puppet shows, and inter-generational or inter-community projects.
Learn more: http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/programs/minigrant.html

GRANTS FOR SCHOOL ART AND MUSIC PROGRAMSAirborne Teacher Trust FundNext deadline: 10/31/07Elementary and middle school teachers in public and private schools are invited to submit grant applications for art and music programs that cannot be funded by schools. Up to $10,000 in awards are given. Grants are reviewed quarterly.
Learn more: http://www.airbornetrust.com/index.aspx

GREENE GRANTS AWARDEDMaxine Greene Foundation"In June, 2007, we awarded four grants which are unique in their linking of imagination and social commitment. We shall continue to offer support to innovative linkages that go beyond mere expressions of good will. We seek those whose work and projects promise to make a concrete difference in lives around them; and we favor works in process, freed from strict accountability measures, open to possibility."Grants were awarded to:- National Network for Folk Arts in Education- 6th Orphan Film Symposium- Time In Children's Arts Initiative at HiArt!- The Wild Hair Living Room Tour
Learn more: http://maxinegreene.org/

Erie's Argonaut has video of the RockErie awards.

The Allegheny College Playshop Theatre begins its 2007-2008 season at 8 p.m. on September 7 and 8 with 10 short plays from 365 Days/365 Plays.

Parks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, decided in 2002 to write a play a day for a year, resulting in “365 plays in 365 days.” Some plays are short, less than a page, while others are lengthy. As with many of her previous works, including “Topdog/Underdog,” “Venus,” “Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom” and “The America Play,” each piece is marked by Parks' characteristic wit, comic situations and flair for language.

I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much.

The date of A Voice Like Rhetoric's video shoot and free show at Butler's Penn Theatre has been moved to the 22nd of Sept.

The Post Gazette takes a look at the 'Burgh's academic theatres and their upcoming seasons.

I don't know the scientific explanation for it, but cellos make it good.

Banjo tabs for the finest alterna-music around? Yeah, I know a little place.

Finally, because I know what you want even before you ask for it, a free and legal download of Over The Rhine's April 2007 show at Cincinnati's 20th Century Theatre.