{"id":3509,"date":"2026-04-16T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:24:00","slug":"bates-dance-festival-receives-funding-to-support-the-2026-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/2026\/04\/16\/bates-dance-festival-receives-funding-to-support-the-2026-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Dance Festival receives Funding to Support the 2026 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The Bates Dance Festival has received grants from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/\">National Endowment for the Arts<\/a> ($25,000) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mainearts.maine.gov\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mainearts.maine.gov\/\">Maine Arts Commission<\/a> ($5,000) to support the 2026 Bates Dance Festival and its general operating and programming. If you see BDF Director Shoni Currier on campus, please congratulate her!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/01\/BDF1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/01\/BDF1-900x507.webp\" alt=\"Bates Dance Festival dancers wearing gold sequin outfits performing outdoors under a tree\" class=\"wp-image-2177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/01\/BDF1-900x507.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/01\/BDF1-400x225.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/01\/BDF1-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/01\/BDF1.webp 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates Dance Festival has received grants from the National Endowment for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-grants","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}