WELCOME

We are planning FNM 2010!

WE ARE MOVING FORWARD AND YOU CAN JOIN US --- LEARN HOW YOU CAN HELP- Please join us on June 24th at City Council Meeting to make a difference!

Join FNM At the City of Monterey's 4th of July Celebration!

FNM is in the parade and has a food booth - join us and volunteer !

Concours de Elegance! First Night will also be staffing the Retro Auto Tent- if you would like to work 4 hours- you get a ticket to concours-if you work 8 hours you get ticket and the concours jacket! Sunday has times available.

Call for Artist Forms will be up on site in June, submit by July 30 2009.

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First Night Monterey, Inc. is a private non-profit organization. It is made possible by public and private contributions, sponsorships, and through admission sales for the First Night button. First Night Monterey is especially grateful to its major FY’08 supporters: The City of Monterey, MST, Comcast Spotlight, Granite Construction, Safeway Stores, Monterey County Herald, Target, KION 46, Fox 35, Arts Council for Monterey County, Community Foundation of Monterey County, Harden Foundation, California Arts Council, Monterey County Bank, UpJohn California Fund, Capital Insurance, RaboBank, The Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, Community Hospital, Audrey S. Talbott Foundation, Paul Davis Foundation, Community Advancing the Arts Initiative for Monterey County funded by the James Irvine Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Lovell Langrsroth Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The Grover Herman Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, Don Chapin Company, Yellow Brick Road Benefit Shop, Friends of First Night Monterey.

FNM is a private non-profit organization that conducts year-round community outreach and arts education workshops that culminate at the landmark New Year’s Eve celebration. First Night Monterey’s mission is to foster the public’s appreciation of visual and performing arts and celebrate families and community through workshops and the New Year‘s Eve celebration. First Night Mission Statement: To reveal and celebrate diversity through the First Night Monterey celebration and the First Night ArtWorks! program, using art as a catalyst to unify the community through creativity, imagination and participation.


  First Night Monterey’s History and Major Accomplishments:
  Founded in 1992, First Night Monterey (FNM) was founded by Paulette Lynch and  started with a group of artists and Monterey Peninsula residents who wanted a creative alternative to the traditional New Year’s Eve revelry.  FNM is a private non-profit organization that conducts year-round community outreach and arts education workshops that culminate at the landmark New Year’s Eve celebration. First Night Monterey’s mission is to foster the public’s appreciation of visual and performing arts and celebrate families and community through workshops and the  New Year‘s Eve celebration.  

In fifteen+ years, FNM has grown from a one day arts event into a celebration of the creativity and diversity of our community.  FNM is ranked 5th in venue size and audience among 139 First Nights by First Night International.  FNM is consistently receives acclaim for the creativity of our programming.     

First Night Monterey endeavors to be a leader and a catalyst in innovative ways to reach audiences, to actively engage them in activities that stimulate their interest in the visual and performing arts.  We work to find ways to fully engage our students and audience and to show them how the arts enrich their lives and their communities.  In 2007, a number of innovative collaborations brought poetry and visual arts workshops to the migrant farm worker community, free arts workshops to the people at community gatherings in Salinas and Gonzales, and brought eleven local arts organizations to the Celebration, offering them an unprecedented opportunity to reach new audiences and to enrich the programming at the event.   These partners included: Arts Council for Monterey County; Artistas Unidos: Big Sur Arts Initiative; Big Sur Spirit Garden; City of Monterey; City of Salinas; Monterey History and Art Association; Monterey Museum of Art; Poder Popular, and Spector Dance.

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