Examples of Funded 2006 Culture and Tourism Partnership Grant Projects
Old Lyme Midsummer Festival
Lead Applicant: Lyme Art Association
Partners: Lyme Art Association, Connecticut River Museum, and the Florence
Griswold Museum
This project brought together art, history and tourism organizations to cross-promote the Old Lyme Midsummer Festival. Promotion extended to include radio coverage. The two-day festival included free musical performances, art demonstrations, art sales, and a program entitled "Hands-On, Minds-On Educational Area." This collaboration leveraged the assets of all partners to promote Old Lyme as an important destination for art, culture and history.
The Family Fun Trail
Lead Applicant: Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, Niantic
Partners: Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Florence Griswold Museum,
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Slater Memorial Museum, Historic Ship
Nautilus & Submarine Force Museum and Connecticut River Museum
Seven small family-friendly non-profit museums established a "trail" of unique exhibits in southeastern Connecticut, and kicked off the summer season with a "Family Fun Day." The partners created and distributed a rack card with attached admission coupons and organized reciprocal memberships to partner activities.
Neil Simon Play Trilogy
Lead Applicant: The Acting Company - Greenwich
Partners: The Acting Company, "Broadway Bound" in May at The Beach
Housein in Old Greenwich; Curtain Call, "Brighton Beach" in
September at The Royal Green Restaurant in Stamford;
The Darien Players, "Biloxi Blues" in January at The Black
Goose in Darien
Three community theatre groups from southwestern Connecticut each presented one play from Neil Simon's trilogy of "Brighton Beach Memoirs," "Biloxi Blues," and "Broadway Bound." Each group partnered with a restaurant to offer a dinner-theater package. The Simon Trilogy partnership allowed theater goers to visit three different theaters and restaurants, and developed audience/customers for each partner.
Fairfield Halloweekend
Lead Applicant: Fairfield Historical Society, Fairfield
Partners: The Fairfield Historical Society, Fairfield Chamber of Commerce,
Fairfield Public Library, and the Gaelic American Club
Four diverse community groups collaborated to promote Halloween events under a marketing umbrella, Fairfield Halloweekend. Partners jointly created press materials and print/radio advertisements. Fairfield Halloweekend 2006 spotlighted Fairfield Center as a place to shop, eat, and be entertained over four days.
Connecticut's Historic Gardens
Lead Applicant: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Partners:The Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden, Butler-McCook House
and Garden, Florence Griswold Museum, Glebe House Museum
& Gertrude Jekyll Garden, Hill-Stead Museum, Friends of
Harkness Memorial State Park, Osborne Homestead Museum
& Kellogg Environmental Center, Promisek/Beatrix Ferrand Garden
at Three Rivers, Roseland Cottage/Bowen House, and the
Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
