- Date
- 2006-08-28
- Kind
- Meeting
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- music-folklorecommunityeducation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Cultural Arts Association’s first annual meeting on 28 August 2006 formalized a change in Baroque on Beaver’s sponsorship and management. The contemporary report says the new Michigan nonprofit would sponsor, manage, and present the festival while supporting cultural-arts education and enrichment.1
Decisions and transition
The reported board set 25–29 July for the 2007 festival, planned duplicated Parish Hall concerts and smaller-venue programming, and approved $2,500 to support school music and arts activities culminating in the summer camp and concerts. The report credits St. James Episcopal Mission with sponsoring the first five festivals and disbursing earlier net proceeds for school music. It therefore documents a particular organizational transition, not proof that every transfer of assets or responsibility was legally complete that day.1
Open questions
- What incorporation, IRS, board-minutes, and financial records verify the timing and legal terms of the transition?
- Which of the announced 2007 program plans were carried out?
Footnotes
Sources
- “New Arts Organization Takes over Baroque on Beaver,” Beaver Beacon, October 2006.Contemporary report says BICAA formed as a Michigan nonprofit, names its nine-person board, dates the first annual meeting to August 28, records 2007 planning and a $2,500 school-support decision, and describes the transition from St. James sponsorship. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held forty-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Formation and first annual meeting of the Beaver Island Cultural Arts Association, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cultural-arts-association-formation-2006/, accessed [date], citing “New Arts Organization Takes over Baroque on Beaver,” Beaver Beacon, October 2006. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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