Arts Education and Cultural Enrichment Fund
How the Fund Works:
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Fund Raising: Proceeds from the Common Thread Quilt Fest Silent Auction are set aside each year to spend on a broad based community event that increases access to arts and cultural programming in the Clifton-Fine area.
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Event Planning Cycle: Our planning cycle operates one year behind our fund raising cycle. Once we raise the funds in the fall of the year, we know how much we have to spend on a community enrichment event the following calendar year. If we work with the school, this "calendar year" may get adjusted to the next "school year" so we can coordinate with preexisting school curricula.
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Event Planing: SOS/Adirondack Exhibit Center organizes and provides on-the-ground management of the event.
2025
Silent Auction Funds will support...
2026-27 Planning Cycle:
CTQ and SOS are still in the event planning phase. Our planning cycle operates one year behind our fund raising cycle. Once we raise the funds in the fall of the year we know how much we have to spend on a community enrichment event. Then we start event planning for the following calendar year.
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2023
Silent Auction Funds supported...
2024-25 Planning Cycle:
"Adirondack Heritage Week" at the Clifton-Fine School March 10-14, 2025. This event, coordinated by SOS/Adirondack Exhibit Center, is for kids preK through 5 grade. Each day, kids participated in different activities celebrating the place they come from. Activities included storytelling, song writing, folk dancing, visits from both the Adirondack Experience The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake and the authors of the Adirondack Kids book series.
2024
Silent Auction Funds supported...
2025-26 Planning Cycle:
"Adirondack Heritage Week" at the Clifton-Fine School March 9-12, 2026. This event, coordinated by SOS/Adirondack Exhibit Center, is for kids preK through 5 grade. Students participated in activities celebrating the place they come from, including storytelling, Adirondack music & folk dancing, visits from two museums—the Adirondack Experience and the Adirondack Sky Center—and a Celebration of Adirondack Trees.
2022
Silent Auction Funds supported...
2023-24 Planning Cycle:
CTQ is collaborated with SOS/Adirondack Exhibit Center and the Wanakena Historical Association to co-sponsor a two week Power of Story Writer-In-Residence Program September 1-14, 2023. The writer/musician, AnnMarie Rowland, spent two weeks in the area presenting a variety of workshops for adults and children. Her residency culminated with a four day on-site visit at Clifton-Fine Central School.​
