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
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 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 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 to curate and present a free four-week interactive exhibit of performance and visual art on frozen Medicine Lake in Plymouth. The exhibit will be on view in winter 2012.
Funding to work with seven collaborating partners to conduct residencies in flamenco dance, music and culture with approximately 350 children and youth at seven Twin Cities schools from May through December 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.
