The Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud will present of series of six concerts by visiting professional ensembles, along with a variety of community outreach activities.
The College of Saint Benedict will present a free outdoor concert series, Sunset Stages at Saint Benedict’s, designed to specifically engage the Saint Joseph community and featuring Minnesota artists.
COMPAS and Sibley Bike Depot will create jobs within ArtsWork, an arts-based, employment program, for youth to learn bike repair and work with artist Jan Elftmann to turn them into works of art.
Koom Siab United Hearts--a year-round Pan-Asian dance learning project--provides diverse Asian dance classes to disadvantaged Asian American youth to acquire knowledge/skills, and participate at Koom Siab Pan Asian dance performance.
Professional theater artists will work for and with the West Side neighborhood of St. Paul to create a community-engaged theater production in which community stories inspire the script and score, and professional and community actors share the stage.
The Theatre 4 All Initiative will eliminate barriers to ensure access to quality live theater for 1,000 disadvantaged youth in St. Cloud's inner-city schools.
Moving Matters is a dance and moving arts project that will bring quality dance experience to adults with mental illness and mental health workers. The project will be used as a healing art that will enhance recovery and stimulate healthy partnerships between workers and clients, as well as be a new medium to raise community awareness about mental illness.
History Theatre is seeking funds to establish a new theater access program targeted toward schools and community programs in greater Minnesota in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society.
Hmong Arts Connection request funds to produce two issues of Paj Ntaub Voice, the premier literary Hmong magazine, and to launch our Hmong writers speaking and teaching series.
Schoolwide theater residency with artist Perrin Boyd, culmiting in the public performance of student created works at our community Peace Day and International Peace Site Rededication celebration.
Great Tap for an Even Greater Minnesota will travel to greater Minnesota providing free tap dance education and low cost performance to communities underserved regarding arts performance/educational opportunities, fitting into its mission to "expand the boundaries of American tap dance."
LPT' project will 1) perform shows in senior facilities, 2) perform a children' show in a family transitional housing facility and 3) bring those families to attend shows at our theater.
Linwood Monroe Arts Plus proposes to engage nine artists to present high quality residencies for all students and professional development for arts specialists. Detailed planning, arts integration, and response protocols are key elements of the plan.
This project increases access to high quality arts residencies for all Linwood/Monroe K-8 students, supports staff, and artists in developing new skills in planning arts integration residencies, and embeds collaborative response protocols into more areas of our work with students.
Saint Paul Public Schools will increase access to arts learning for underserved African American and other students by establishing two artist residencies in Maxfield Magnet Elementary School that include culturally relevant arts learning experiences for 240 students, community/family events, and teacher/artist professional development.
Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musicals promote positive images of children with mental health disorders. We will bring live musical theatre to three residential treatment programs.
The Minnesota Guitar Society seeks funding to support a series of concerts, workshops, master classes, and in-school visits by 10 internationally renowned guitarists from abroad and the U. S., to be presented in Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and South St. Paul.
Minnesota Guitar Society will present a series of concerts, workshops, master classes, and in-school visits by guitarists from abroad and across the Unites States in Duluth, Fergus Falls, and the Twin Cities and their suburbs.
Minnesota Museum of American Art requests funding for a touring exhibition of highlights from its outstanding collection of American art from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on the art of Minnesota and the region.
Minnesota Museum of American Art requests funding for a touring exhibition of highlights from its outstanding collection of American art from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on the art of Minnesota and the region.
In its project, Out the Door, Round the Block: The Art and Science of the Neighborhood, learners of all ages will work with five professional artists to create original works of art to be shared with the community.
Nautilus will tour its production of, I AM ANNE FRANK, to rural Minnesota, sponsored in year one by the Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview, the Duluth Festival Opera, and the Bemidji Symphony; with three new sites in year two.
Nautilus will tour its chamber music-theater productions to five cities throughout Minnesota: Duluth, Bemidji, Plainview, Saint Cloud, and Bigfork, sponsored in each city by an established presenter.
The Ordway will increase access for senior citizens with limited income and/or transportation challenges to attend “Guys and Dolls” and contribute stories of the time period through workshops with artists.
Park Square's Theatre Ambassadors Program is a nine-month program to strengthen the skills and leadership of twenty teens through artist-led workshops, performances, and service projects that serve an additional 500 community members.
Park Square will increase access for patrons with disabilities by implementing initiatives to overcome identified barriers: price, limited interpreted performances and knowledge of access services.
The Saint Paul Community Youth Arts Project will dramatically increase Saint Paul Parks and Recreations ability to use its many community spaces to engage Saint Paul at-risk youth in grades K-12 in high-quality arts learning opportunities during out-of-school time hours.
Students of three distinct Saint Paul school communities housed in one building will come together to create and perform music, theater, visual art, and writing in Jazz at Rondo. Standards-based arts learning will foster development of individual and collective voice.
Students of three distinct Saint Paul school communities, housed in one building, will come together to create and perform music, theater, visual art, and writing in Jazz at Rondo. Standards-based arts learning will foster development of individual and collective voice.
TU Dance will tour to two greater Minnesota communities (Bigfork and Fergus Falls), presenting public performances and collaborating with each partner to conduct master classes, reach underserved populations, and engage the largest and broadest possible audiences.
The University of Minnesota-Morris Performing Arts Series includes five events presenting high quality and diverse music, theater, and dance performances and associated public educational activities by regional, national, and international artists.
Veterans in the Arts' Advanced Level Classes are part of a progressive program to bring veterans into the arts through some of the Twin Cities leading centers: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Book Arts Center, and Northern Clay Center.
Zeitgeist is requesting support for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc, text by Kevin Kling, and direction by Ben Krywosz, to take place at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center.
Zeitgeist will present for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc and text by Kevin Kling, which will tour to four communities in northwest Minnesota.
Given Minnesota students choose the arts and science as electives instead of having them as core curriculum, the purpose of this grant is to engage and enrich the lives of lifelong learners through effectively integrating the arts and sciences in our program.
To make theater accessible to the non-English speaking Hmong community, we will mount the play "Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman"in Hmong and nurture the talents of nontraditional Hmong actors.
The Minnesota Music Coalition will produce and promote a statewide tour of performances and workshops featuring established and emerging musicians and bands working in fine arts presenting venues.
Wilder Foundation will provide arts learning for elders and adults with disabilities living at Ravoux, a Saint Paul Public Housing hi-rise, and to elders with dementia in its memory loss program by collaborating with Kairos Dance Theatre and the Women's Drum Center.
