GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track

$10,000 Orange, CA

To support the Fowles Literary Forum & Creative Writing Workshop. Artists such as novelists Daniel Kehlmann, Ruth Kluger, Thomas Lehr, and Alissa Walser, and documentary filmmaker Illona Ziok, are expected to participate. Project activities will include lectures, readings, question-and-answer sessions, and other outreach activities.

Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co.

GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works

$15,000 Irvine, CA

To support the New World Flamenco Festival. The festival will feature flamenco dance and music from artists, such as dancer and choreographer Eva Yerbabuena, guitarist Tomatito, and dancer and choreographer Yaelisa. Engagement activities will include site-specific fiestas in public venues, master classes, and community workshops.

Muckenthaler Cultural Center

GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track

$10,000 Fullerton, CA

To support the free Summer Solstice Festival. Intended to serve economically disadvantaged Latino and Korean residents in Fullerton, the multidisciplinary project will bring together emerging artists such as traditional Korean music group Haemil; the Kwan Gue Lim Dance Company, a Korean dance company that combines traditional and contemporary Korean performing arts; Trio Ellas, an all-female mariachi band combining traditional mariachi with other contemporary music genres; and La Santa Cecilia, performing a hybrid of rock and world music, among others.

Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center

GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track

$10,000 Santa Ana, CA

To support the Harp Traditions of Latin America Festival, featuring harpists from Mexico, Paraguay, and Colombia. The project will include music instruction from international harpists, lecture-demonstrations about the historical and cultural significance of Latin American harp performance, and a culminating concert featuring harpists Alberto De La Rosa, Cesar Daniel Lopez, and Dario Robayo Sanabria.

Pacific Symphony

GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music

$40,000 Santa Ana, CA

To support the American Composers Festival From Score to Screen. Programming will be directed by Music Director Carl St. Clair and curated by Richard Guerin, and will highlight orchestral works by award-winning Hollywood film score composers such as Bernard Herrmann (Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and "North by Northwest"); Hans Zimmer

South Coast Repertory

GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater

$50,000 Costa Mesa, CA

To support the annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, featuring world premiere productions and staged readings of previously unproduced plays by established playwrights and emerging writers.