To enhance arts and cultural heritage programming at the East Otter Tail County Fair by hosting a fiddle contest, a barbershop quartet, and by purchasing a sound system to help performers engage a larger audience.
To build a mobile stage and purchase sound and lighting equipment, in order to increase the fair's ability to host arts and cultural heritage programming.
To purchase signs, created and painted by a local artist, to identify West Otter Tail County Fair exhibit buildings that display creative fine arts or feature live music.
The Children's Museum of Rochester, Inc. will be implementing a program called Passport To Play aiming to increase the number of children and families of all ages, ethnicities, abilities and incomes to participate in hands-on arts and cultural programming and educational exhibits at the museum. Passport To Play would reach over 1,500 children and families a year from underserved communities in Southeastern Minnesota. The Children's Museum of Rochester, Inc.
Arts 101 is 12 months of quality and meaningful arts samplers traveling TO existing groups of any age.For participants,tickets and transportation will be provided for a more in depth experience.
A Center for the Arts continues their tour across Minnesota with one program from last year―Ann Reed's Heroes, and two new tour programs―Songs from the Tall Grass, which we produced in 2007 and Chamber Music.
The Circle of Life is a two-year project involving all facets of the community in lifelong learning through music, theater, movement, and puppetry, working with Ghaian dancer/drummer Francis Kofi, and artists Esther Ouray and Julie Kastigar.
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
