<P>Cool:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Americans for Arts Spends $1.2M to Animate Dialogue<P>Mike Salinas, Backstage.com on Yahoo! News<P>A Brooklyn-based dance company and a Staten Island theatre company are among the five New York City institutions invited to participate in the second year of a project to engage people in civic issues. In all, sixteen organizations in all were selected for this year's Animating Democracy Lab, underwritten by $1.2 million in funding from Americans in the Arts, a 40-year-old arts advocacy group.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><a href=http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bpibs/20010829/en/_b_h1_americans_for_arts_spends_1_2m_to_animate_dialogue_h1_b__1.html target=_blank>More</a>