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Business in the Arts Awards May 14, 2007

For Immediate Release Contact: Joan Goshgarian

April 16, 2007 603 224-8300

BUSINESS IN THE ARTS AWARDS GALA MAY 14

The 23 nd annual Business in the Arts Awards will be held May 14 at 6:00 p.m. at the Center of New Hampshire – Radisson Hotel in Manchester. Sponsored by the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts, the gala will honor the thirty New Hampshire businesses nominated for this year’s awards. The culmination of the evening will be the naming of the winners. The evening highlights a celebration of business support for the arts and entertains with a performance showcase of drama, movement and music and song.

Robert Shea of the Dana Center, St. Anselm College is the Master of Ceremonies for the festivities. The performers include the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir, New England College Theatre Department, University of New Hampshire Department of Theatre and Dance and a reading by Chester College of New England professor Robert Crawford.

More arts features include a cultural trivia quiz show with lucky contestants winning baskets filled with goodies from New Hampshire’s cultural institutions and a grand prize of two tickets from Southwest Air; ceramic pieces from the faculty and students of NH Institute of Art gracing the tables as centerpieces; and award prizes by artist Bill Haust of Plymouth State University.

Thirty businesses were nominated for their sponsorships, employee volunteerism, and donations of products and services in support of the arts. The winners in each of four categories will be announced during the evening. Additionally, one individual will receive an award for leadership based on his or her demonstrated efforts in promoting business leadership commitments to the arts.

The nominees are:

100 Market Group

Atlantic Media

Bank of America

Bead Gallery

Bridgewater Power Company

Centrix Bank

The Citizen

Cleveland, Waters and Bass

The Common Man Family of Restaurants

Franklin Pierce Law Center

The Hanover Inn

HippoPress

The Inns and Spa at Mills Falls

Laconia Savings Bank

Lincoln Financial Group

Loon Mountain

Mascoma Savings Bank

Meredith Village Savings Bank

New Hampshire Magazine

Peerless Insurance

The RAM Companies

Sanborn Head & Associates

Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth

TD Banknorth

The Toadstool Bookstores

TransCanada

Tumbledown Farms

The Wire

Woodstock Inn

Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank

The Business in the Arts Awards Corporate Sponsors are: BAE Systems, Bank of America, Latona Associates, Lincoln Financial Group, Northeast Delta Dental, Ocean National Bank, Public Service of New Hampshire, and Verizon. Underwriters are Citizens Bank and TD Banknorth.

For more information, or to reserve tickets for the May 14 gala, contact the NHBCA at 603 224-8300 or arts@nhbca.com. Tickets are $75 each; tables for 10 are $650. Due to the support of the Corporate Sponsors, the NHBCA is able to offer reduced price tickets to artists and arts administrators who contact the NHBCA. The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts was founded in 1985 to educate, motivate and recognize business support of and participation in the arts.

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