This is an annual affair that showcases the cultural achievements in our community and is attended by artists and performers who are grant recipients, as well as more than 100 residents as well as city and state political and agency representatives. Denise Johnson, constituent liason for Congresswoman Nikki Tsonga presented a Congressional citation to the Winnikenni Foundation for its years of service and contributions to the arts.
  
The Massachusetts Cultural Council oversees a network of 329 Local Cultural Councils serving all 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. The LCC Program is the largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation, supporting thousands of community-based projects in the arts, sciences and humanities every year. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, which then allocates funds to local cultural councils in each community.

Statewide, more than $2.65 million is being distributed by local cultural councils in 2010. Grants support an enormous range of grass-roots activities: concerts, exhibitions, radio and video productions, field trips for schoolchildren, after-school youth programs, writing workshops, historical preservation efforts, lectures, First Night celebrations, nature and science education programs for families and town festivals.