IN THE NEWS

JUILLIARD, CARNEGIE HALL FELLOWS TO SERVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The Juilliard School and Carnegie Hall will launch a postgraduate music academy for outstanding musicians this coming January. These fellows will spend part of each week in the New York City public schools, in conjunction with the New York City Department of Education, and will help music teachers plan and manage their classes. The first 16 fellows will hone their skills as musicians and take classes on teaching music in a two-year program designed to "bridge the gap between the musicians' academic and professional lives." The program will eventually grow to include 50 fellows each year.

NEWS AT THE ALLIANCE

FRIENDS OF THE ARTS PARTY NOV 14 A BIG SUCCESS

300 guests joined us for a private preview of Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art sale, raising over $40,000 for our arts advocacy programs, including the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Fellowship in Public Policy and the Arts, now in its fifth year. We would like to thank Christie's, Ketel One vodka, Los Vascos wine, Darby Litho, NYCharities.org and Patrick McMullan for their generous support. More pictures can be viewed on the Alliance Web site by clicking here, or on Patrick McMullan's Web site www.patrickmcmullan.com.

Councilmember Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Randy Bourscheidt, Commissioner Kate Levin, Stephanie French

DESIGN BEGINS FOR CITYWIDE CULTURAL DATABASE

The long-planned Citywide Cultural Database began design and construction on November 20. The City selected the Web design firm Funny Garbage for the $1.5 million project, which will be the most ambitious Web-based arts and cultural database of its kind in the country. The system will power new Web sites detailing cultural events in all five boroughs, with organizations large and small, and will be aimed at the general public--including parents, kids, teachers and cultural tourists. The Alliance's information sites, www.nyc-arts.org and www.nyckidsarts.org, will be rebuilt and redesigned. Additionally, the system will also collect quantitative data for the Alliance's ongoing research on the economic impact of the arts. The database is scheduled to be launched in the fall of 2007.

ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND GIVES GRANT TO ALLIANCE

In November, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund awarded a capacity-building grant to assist the Alliance in developing the Citywide Cultural Database. The database will be the cornerstone of the Alliance's work going forward.

NEW EDITOR AT THE ALLIANCE

Blake Radcliffe has joined the Alliance as editor of publications. Blake is also an editor at Words Without Borders. He studied at Davidson College and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.

I GIFT NEW YORK

You can shop with sophistication year-round in the newly designed Cultural Gift Directory from the Alliance. More than 500 cultural organizations are listed with many gift opportunities: give someone a membership, subscription, or buy tickets to any number of cultural venues or shows; go to an online or museum gift shop to purchase cultural merchandise; or make contributions in your friends' and family's names.