The Los Angeles County Arts Commission is currently seeking County-based youth and adult community and professional choirs, dance companies, and music ensembles to perform in the 49th Annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration.

The Arts Commission encourages all Los Angeles County-based performing groups representing diverse communities, traditions, and performing disciplines to apply for the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration. Proposed programming should be suitably themed for a multi-cultural holiday production. All performing groups are paid. Interested organizations are required to submit an electronic grant (eGrant) application, which is accessible via the Arts Commission website at www.holidaycelebration.org

Both the application guidelines and the eGrant application are available online now, and the deadline to apply is Wednesday, August 6, 2008. If you have additional questions, please send an email to
www.publicevents@arts.lacounty.gov

The Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration is a free public event that honors the spirit of many cultures and holiday traditions through music, song and dance and takes place every December 24th from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles. The stage production is also broadcast live on KCET, and an annual one-hour highlight broadcast is carried nationally on PBS.