To cover the cost of the event, the organizers found government and commercial sponsors willing to contribute roughly $1 million.

Couldn't the organizers have found a more appetizing hybrid?

The arts council (online at westarts.com), a nonprofit group, can help organizers apply for grants and find specific categories of performing or visual artist.

In either case, they were strong enough at times to delay 12 events, although organizers found time for everything by tonight's closing ceremony.

The organizers found bureaucratic roadblocks put in their path.

In the beginning it was only a local affair and the organizers quickly found themselves in financial troubles.

But the organizers found that Guatemala would present a bid of their own.

Ms. Kennedy said that if the organizers cannot find an accessible semi-permanent home, preferably free, they may pack it in.

But organizers have found some still wary of open politics.

But, for more than three months this season, the organizers of the site did not find one to pin on Torre.