Funding to enable students in grades 5 to 8 from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on all aspects of a live choral show production during two-week, three-week, and five-week camps in June and July of 2011.
Funding for a Community Read of Willa Cather’s My Antonia March 6-9 in preparation for Illusion Theater’s performance of the play on March 13 at New Prague High School.
Funding for the African Roots Music, a 16-week residency for first and second grade students at Marcy Open School in southeast Minneapolis from February through May of 2011.
Funding to present a revised and more fully realized artistic production of How to Cheat, a comedy about morality. Performances will take place at the Southern Theater in November 2011.
Michael Olson will present his new composition, "Noopiming" in four northern Minnesota communities, and also deliver a lecture/demonstration of his new and somewhat unconventional compositional method. "Noopiming" is an Ojibwe word which translates as "in the North, inland, in the woods.
