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 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 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 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.
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.
In 2010-2011, the Givens Foundation for African American Literature will launch Givens Black Books, a community reading campaign designed to increase access to and engagement in the literary arts in the Twin Cities' African American community.
James Sewell Ballet' ArtAces is an outreach ticket and transportation program aimed at providing access to our performance and education programs for schools who wish to participate, regardless of financial ability.
To create a traveling exhibit for A Peace of My Mind, a documentary project that combines oral history and portraiture to explore the meaning of peace, using art and storytelling as a means to foster public dialogue.
Bedlam seeks funds to expand opportunities for teens within our successful youth programming in Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. This grant will fund three youth activities and a skill-building workshop for Bedlam artists in support of youth activities.
This seven-month multimedia arts program is framed through documentary filmmaking and community engagement. Students will create, perform, and respond to their learning in the areas of video, audio production, and scriptwriting/storytelling.
The Cedar will partner with Brian Coyle Center, African Development Center, and West Bank School of Music to engage the East African communities of Cedar-Riverside with a comprehensive arts program that uses music events as the focal point.
Return to Honor, sensitizes communities to the challenges faced by military personnel returning from combat. The play will be performed throughout Minnesota nineteen times, hosted by our partner libraries.
The Discovery Center offers four new arts opportunities in orchestra, instrumental ensemble, opera, and pottery to increase the engagement of youth and adults, expand access to the arts for underserved populations, and increase community wide knowledge through cable TV.
Students and community will engage in a sustained art-making project, exploring the significance of place and culminating in the creation of a mosaic mural that transforms the entrance of our school into a more welcoming environment, affirming our diverse community.
In partnership with VSA arts of Minnesota and Northfield Arts Guild, Epic Enterprise will develop and embed a multi-arts program for adults with developmental disabilities and build staff capacity to teach arts as an ongoing and daily program at Epic.
Focusing on a theme of Making Art Together Builds Community, all students at Farmington Elementary will work with one of four artists using the European and American folk song and dance, Ghaian drumming, West African dance, and puppetry.
To bring four concerts to the western suburbs by national artists of high caliber, elevating the artistic merit of our concert season and providing arts experiences not otherwise available to our community.
In the Circus of the States residency, fourth grade students will learn circus skills and create a performance celebrating their geographic study. The project will include individual research, collaboration, creative problem solving, and theater to entertain and teach.
The Sumunar Gamelan and Dance Ensemble will present a featured performance at the Minnesota State University Moorhead's Day of World Percussion, to be attended by Moorhead students and faculty plus performers and participants from throughout Minnesota and the Dakotas
This project will dramatically increase access for at risk teens to arts programming, events, and leadership opportunities; eliminating barriers of transportation, cost, and access to information
IFTPA will collaborate with Sibley Elementary School in Northfield and the Northfield Community Chinese School to hire Chinese musician Gao Hong to do residencies at each school.
The Madwe'igan (Ojibwe: a tool for being heard) Project consists of teams of storytelling and media artists engaging American Indian students, grades K to 3, in the creation of video and new media arts projects.
Public art project involving educational outreach workshops for underserved audiences, culminating with a regional iron pour, artist talk, community art brochure and public art installation.
Childish Films @ the Library is an innovative series of professionally curated classic, independent, and new world cinema for ages three and up. Free and open to the public, films are paired with hands-on arts activities for young children.
Lionsgate Academy will engage a variety of COMPAS artists over a 2-year period to address the unique learning and developmental needs and styles of students on the autism spectrum through increased opportunities for artistic learning, training, and expression.
Our mission is to expand access to literature and cultivate relationships in communities across the state of Minnesota by bringing two authors to nine locations, for a total of 14 events.
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2011: four coffee concerts at Nicollet Island, transportation provided; and one neighborhood concert at Elliot Park.