Cultural Affairs Panel OKs 8 Grant Appeals

The Cultural Affairs Commission has approved eight arts grants for 1992-93 that were appealed for technical reasons.

The grants totaled $70,000 and ranged from $15,000 to the California Traditional Music Society (to produce the 13th annual Summer Solstice Folk Music & Dance Festival) to $5,000 each for the California West Coast and New Art Assn. (toward publication of the New Art Examiner) and the Los Angeles Solo Repertory Orchestra (for projects with students and senior citizens).

Additional recipients are Actor’s Alley Repertory Theater, $6,500; Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, $10,000; Los Angeles Civic Orchestra Assn./DBA West Valley Symphony, $9,000; theater artist Timothy Dang, $10,000, and theater artist Amy Hill, $9,500. A total of 18 organizations and individual artists had filed the appeals.

which are expected to be approved next week by the City Council and mayor.