Funding for a new Outreach and Residency Program at Mulberry Junction in northeast Minneapolis, Envisions Academy of the Arts in Burnsville, and dance studios in south Minneapolis, Eden Prairie and White Bear Lake from March through August 2011.
Funding for Send in the Jazz, a collaborative dance piece featuring choreographers Karis Sloss and Zoe Sealy. Performances will take place at the Ritz Theater in July 2011.
Funding for four free music concerts as part of their summer concert series. The concerts will take place at the LeDuc Historic Estate in Hastings in August 2011.
Funding for Jazz at Studio Z, a yearlong series of monthly jazz workshops and concerts featuring local musicians. Workshops and performances will take place at Studio Z in downtown St. Paul between September 2011 and 2012.
Funding to produce and present Diabetes of Democracy, a multidisciplinary performance project that uses culturally-specific cuisine and storytelling to raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes. Performances will take place at Intermedia Arts in October 2011.
Funding for the 2011 Thanksgiving Celebration Pow-Wow, a three-day community event dedicated to preserving and celebrating Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk traditional dance and drumming. The event will be held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center during
Funding to produce and stage 16 site-specific performances of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor adapted as an operetta. The project will take place in summer 2011.
Funding for the Pan-Asian Dance Learning Project, a yearlong training program for disadvantaged Asian American and Pacific Islander girls ages 9 to 18.
Funding for “The Masterwork Invitational,” an opportunity for students in four Twin Cities area high school choirs to study, prepare, and perform Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with local professional musicians as clinicians and concert soloists, in November 20
Funding for a three-day international film festival featuring 12 works by Indigenous filmmakers of Bolivia, Canada, and Minnesota. The festival will include audience discussions with directors and additional films produced by local youth. The festival wil
Advisory Task Force on Woman and Juvenile Female Offender in Corrections AKA Women's Writing Program of Advisory Task Force on the Women and Juvenile Female Offender in Corrections
Funding for Remembering with Dignity, a visual arts project involving artists with developmental disabilities and featuring studio sessions and field trips. The project will culminate in an exhibition at Newell Park in St. Paul in May 2012.
