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Department of State: Division of the Arts: Information

Logo for the Division of the ArtsPARTICIPATE IN THE ARTS

The following organizations and venues, grouped by discipline, provide opportunities for individuals who want to participate more actively in group arts events. These organizations depend on the talent of community members who enjoy acting, singing, dancing, playing an instrument, or sharing their literary accomplishments with others. For additional information, please contact the organizations.

Dance    Literary    Music    Theater

Dance — Group Dancing

  • Arden Folk Gild
    Wilmington. 478-7257
    Sponsors contra, square and folk group-dances every month.

  • Dover English Country Dancers
    Dover. 678-0556
    Web: www.doverdancers.org
    Sponsors English country and American colonial-style group dances.

  • Newark International Folk Dancers
    Wilmington. 737-7321
    E-mail: ismat@udel.edu
    Sponsors weekly group dances.

  • USA Dance Dover Delaware
    Dover. 734-8794
    E-mail: mike@usadancedoverde.com
    Web: www.usadancedoverde.com/
    Sponsors monthly dances in a variety of ballroom styles. (formerly Central Delaware United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association)

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Dance — Performing

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Literary

  • Delmarva Quarterly
    Dennis Forney, Publisher
    PO Box 213
    Lewes, DE 19958
    dnf@capegazette.com
    A publication celebrating the finer aspects of life on the Delmarva Peninsula, as seen through the eyes of a variety of artists and writers, accepts submissions of short stories, poems, sketches, cartoons, essays, photographs, personality profiles, artwork, reviews and reports. Honoraria will be paid for published items.

  • MOBIUS, The Poetry Magazine
    Jean Hull Herman, Editor, 
    P.O. Box 7544, Talleyville, DE 19803-0544
    529-1928
    Delaware poets send SASE for guidelines, inquiries and submissions: accepted year-round.

  • Newark Arts Alliance
    Newark. 266-7266
    E-mail: info@newarkartsalliance.org
    Web: www.newarkartsalliance.org
    Sponsors weekly poetry readings.

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Music — Choral

  • Ardensingers
    Wilmington. 475-3126
    E-mail: randjfava@aol.com
    Web: www.ardensingers.com
    Music/theater group that performs Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and choral concerts.

  • The Brandywiners, Ltd.
    Montchanin. 478-3355
    E-mail: brandywiners@comcast.net
    Web: www.brandywiners.org
    Presents musical theater productions at Longwood Gardens and choral concerts throughout the Delaware Valley.

  • Clear Space Community Chorus and Children's Chorus
    Rehoboth Beach. 644-3810
    E-mail: info@clearspaceproductions.com
    Web: Clearspaceproductions.com
    The adult chorus focuses on the music of American composers and meets on Monday evenings. The Children's Chorus rehearses on Monday afternoons.

  • CoroAllegro
    Wilmington. 652-3997
    E-mail: Jack.Burnam@dol.net
    Web: www.coroallegro.com
    Chamber choir performing diverse and challenging choral repertoire of six centuries, a cappella and with orchestra.

  • Delaware Choral Society
    Dover. 335-1957
    E-mail: info@delawarechoralsociety.org
    Web: www.delawarechoralsociety.org
    Vocal ensemble performing the music of great composers.

  • Delaware Valley Chorale
    Greenville. 234-4866
    E-mail: BMKSop@aol.com
    Web: www.delawarevalleychorale.org
    Regional Symphonic Chorus that performs a wide range of music from the choral and orchestral repertoire. The chorus is open to high school and college students as well as adults and rehearses on Monday evenings.

  • HildaMan Chorale
    Wilmington. 762-4085
    E-mail: BBCAEC@aol.com
    Vocal ensemble performing spirituals and classical works.

  • Madrigal Singers of Wilmington
    Wilmington. 792-9498
    E-mail: lind@firstpresnewark.org
    Web: www.madrigal-singers.org
    Vocal ensemble performing madrigals from the Renaissance to the present.

  • New Ark Chorale
    Newark. 368-4946
    E-mail: jimgreen@udel.edu
    Web: www.newarkchorale.org
    Vocal ensemble focusing primarily on classical works.

  • Northern Delaware Oratorio Society
    Wilmington. 737-1082
    Rehearsals are held on Sunday afternoons from 2:30-5:00 p.m. at the St. James Church (Millcreek Hundred) Parish Hall. No audition necessary.

  • Southern Delaware Choral Society
    Lewes. 645-7584
    E-mail: beachbethh@aol.com
    Rehearsals are each Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Georgetown Presbyterian Church, North Bedford Street, Georgetown. No audition necessary.

  • Wilmington Children's Chorus
    Wilmington. 302-762-3637
    E-mail: singerphild@yahoo.com
    Web: www.wilmingtonchildrenschorus.org
    Multi-cultural children's chorus for the Greater Wilmington area. The main chorus is open to children in grades 3 and above with a special division for Junior and Senior High School Girls. There is a preparatory division for beginning singers in grades 2 through 4.

 

Music — Instrumental

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Theater

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For additional opportunities, check the links below.

Artist Studios, Lectures and More

Arts Participation

Auditions

Call for Entries

Grants/Awards

Institutes/Seminars

Jobs in the Arts

Residencies

Resources for the Arts



Last Updated: Monday, 25-Feb-2008 20:54:22 EST
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