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Live music, dance, performance art and storytelling have been added to ArtNight Pasadena thanks to 10 Mini-Grant awards to artists and smaller cultural organizations by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission. 
The 22nd ArtNight Pasadena on Friday, Oct. 9, from 6 to 10 p.m. is produced by the city’s  Cultural Affairs Division as a part of an ongoing partnership among the many cultural institutions that open their doors for free to offer the public a rich sampling of quality art, culture and music.

Fall 2009 Mini-Grant recipients are:

• Alliance Française de Pasadena, 34 E Union St. (Kendall Alley): Les Amis Traditional Music, music of Quebec with flutes, harmonica, accordion, guitar, hammered dulcimer and percussion.
• Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave.: Kan Zaman Community Ensemble, a drumming jam from 6 to 8 p.m. followed by a vocal and instrumental performance with lute, trapezoid zither, reed flute, violin and percussion.
• Kidspace Children’s Museum, 480 N. Arroyo Blvd.: Lineage Dance, contemporary works.
• One Colorado: Salpy Kerkonian, music of American and Latin composers and Show of Support, a revue of USO camp shows.
• Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave.: Felicia Taylor E. in “The Cricket on the Mound,” interactive theatre, song, and storytelling; also in American Sign Language.
• Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut St.: Crown City Symphony, classical hits; Reiyukai America, a baseball card basket-making workshop, and Baseball Reliquary, America’s favorite pastime through art, music, performance, literature and motion picture.
• Pasadena Museum of History, 470 W. Walnut St.: Spiritual Voices, traditional African-American spirituals and gospel songs.
• Side Street Projects, 965 N. Fair Oaks Ave.: Charles Hachadourian, making Lavash bread while rekindling a simple sense of community.

Additional institutions opening their doors for free are Art Center College of Design’s Williamson Gallery, 700 Lida St.; Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd.; Pasadena City College’s Gallery, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd.; Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St.; and Pasadena Symphony at Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green St.

Live music, special displays and other activities will be offered in front of Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Ave.

Complimentary shuttles will transport participants among all the venues.  For more information visit www.artnightpasadena.org or call (626) 744-7887. 

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