WELCOME
Call to all Artists!
First Night Monterey
theme for the FNM 2009 Celebration is Blazing
the Trail for Cultural Diversity through the Arts we will
look to our Trail Blazing First Nighters this year to bring
our Celebration alive and showcase the best of art and culture
in Monterey County.
Be a Trail Blazers!!!
First Night Monterey's History and Major Accomplishments
Founded in 1992, First Night Monterey (FNM) was founded by
Paulette Lynch and started with a group of artists and
Monterey Peninsula residents who wanted a creative alternative
to the traditional New Year's Eve revelry. FNM
is a private non-profit organization that conducts year-round
community outreach and arts education workshops that culminate
at the landmark New Year's Eve celebration. First Night
Monterey's mission is to foster the public's appreciation
of visual and performing arts and celebrate families and community
through workshops and the New Year's Eve celebration.
In fifteen+ years, FNM
has grown from a one day arts event into a celebration of
the creativity and diversity of our community. FNM is ranked
5th in venue size and audience among 139 First Nights by First
Night International. FNM is consistently receives acclaim
for the creativity of our programming.
First Night Monterey endeavors to be
a leader and a catalyst in innovative ways to reach audiences,
to actively engage them in activities that stimulate their
interest in the visual and performing arts. We work
to find ways to fully engage our students and audience and
to show them how the arts enrich their lives and their communities. In 2007, a number of innovative collaborations brought
poetry and visual arts workshops to the migrant farm worker
community, free arts workshops to the people at community
gatherings in Salinas and Gonzales, and brought eleven local
arts organizations to the Celebration, offering them an unprecedented
opportunity to reach new audiences and to enrich the programming
at the event. These partners included: Arts Council
for Monterey County; Artistas Unidos: Big Sur Arts Initiative;
Big Sur Spirit Garden; City of Monterey; City of Salinas;
Monterey History and Art Association; Monterey Museum of Art;
Poder Popular, and Spector Dance.
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