Kulture Klub Collaborative will develop and empower a Youth Advisory Council to build several new initiatives, broadening and deepening artistic engagement for young people experiencing homelessness.
In summer/fall 2010, Kulture Klub Collaborative will bring Brooklyn-based multi-media artist Oliver Herring and Minnesota film/video artist Brennan Vance together with Twin Cities' youth experiencing homelessness through an intensive workshop of digital video, autobiographical and screenwriting, and public art intervention.
Bounxou Chanthraphpone, experienced Lao weaver, brings hands-on classes to seniors and youth, teaching the technical aspects of weaving, the artistry of design, and the cultural context of Lao weaves and designs. Exhibits/demonstrations will share this learning with hundreds of Minnesotans.
Leonardo' Basement will direct a planning process with community organizations in an economically disadvantaged community to develop an interactive sculpture park located in a Saint Paul park.
The Loft will extend its reach to writers–and those in the making— who lack access to its Twin Cities-based creative writing education services by creating online learning opportunities and a vital online literary learning community.
Lyra proposes to produce 5 baroque chamber concerts in a simultaneous but dual-concert format, one for adults and one for children, to remove the barriers that keep families from attending concerts.
To expand MacPhail's pilot Creative Aging Program from one to five assisted living and retirement communities, and to increase hands-on music participation from 120 to 700 seniors.
MacPhail Center for Music requests $75,000 to develop and expand its Inclusive Partnership Initiative to four community partnerships (from 54 to 58) in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota reaching 850 additional students and recruiting five new teaching artists rooted in arts-based community-building.
MacPhail Center for Music will expand its Creative Aging Program to seven assisted living communities and enroll 700 seniors in participatory music activities based on an accessible, sequential learning model.
Read, Explore, Create provides students the opportunity to read a Milkweed Editions book, explore the themes of the book through an artist residency, visit with the author, and create a work of art integrating these experiences.
Working in partnership with nearby community organizations, Minneapolis College of Art and Design will engage children, youth, and teens from low-income families in its studio art and design programs.
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will conduct Minnesota library tours to six different regions of greater Minnesota, performing six library concerts in each region for a total of 36 concerts.
Open Book will plan literary and book arts experiences with and for underserved neighbors in Cedar-Riverside and other nearby communities. Community writing residencies will culminate in free participatory Family Days featuring community and established writers, book artists, food, and festivity.
In partnership with three community-based organizations, MCBA will launch The Teen Voices Project, which offers customized workshops to introduce teens to creative expression through the book arts.
Minnesota Film Arts proposes, as part of a long-term strategy, to reach out to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities, by presenting ethnically-themed film festival(s) every year. We plan to launch this programming in 2010 with an Asian Film Festival.
Pursuant to its new long-term strategy, MFA will reach out for a second year to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities with a proposed Latin American Film Festival.
The Fringe will increase arts participation first by bringing diverse and under-represented audiences, then by recruiting artists from those audiences to produce shows of their own, continuing the diversification cycle.
The Minnesota Orchestra is committed to making meaningful concert and education connections with audiences statewide; it is working with Watertown, Dawson, and Brainerd for 2011 concert engagements.
To provide unprecedented access to in-depth, high-quality arts instruction (an average of 10 contact hours per student) on MCFTA campus, at its new classroom at Ridgedale Center, and in the community for an estimated 500 at-risk and economically disadvantaged children and youth identified by seven grassroots community partners
To revolutionize access, Mixed Blood proposes FREE THEATRE - no-cost access to productions, eliminating the economic barrier to more effectively engage underrepresented populations.
With a 30-year track record of touring in Minnesota, Mixed Blood Theatre Company will tour seven productions to 16 statewide communities over the next two years to promote pluralism, to serve vulnerable Minnesotans, and to provoke discussion and education about cultural competence.
Mixed Blood Theatre will expand access for Somali immigrant populations in the 55454/Cedar Riverside neighborhood through activities including a partnership with Bedlam Theatre, fostering increased engagement through Somali community-led events and activities, Mixed Blood-produced programming, and a unique performance program.
Northern Clay Center proposes a series of partnerships with community organizations that serve individuals 55 years of age and older, which would provide ongoing clay instruction, lifelong learning in the arts, and opportunities for multi-generational collaboration to place-bound and somewhat mobile populations.
Northrop Concerts and Lectures is piloting a community access program designed to build sustainable relationships with four underserved populations; provide programming reflective of cultural identity and interest; remove barriers of participation; and create points of entry/context for performances.
Off-Leash Area's 2011 Neighborhood Garage Tour, touring contemporary performance to the metro suburbs: 24 performances in 12 neighborhoods over 3 months, reaching approx. 850 people.
Open Eye will launch a visibility campaign to engage those in the community that do not participate in the arts because of perceived barriers of affordability or lack of awareness of the theater.
To develop and implement the second phase of the Artist Teaching Artist professional development program in FY11 and then support for a new retinue of teaching artists to begin the Artist Teaching Artist training in FY12.
Hyphe-NATIONS: Immigrants Matter is a community-based project that will involve creating a sustained relationship with Latina/o immigrants and the Latin American community of Lake Street and its surrounding neighborhoods between July 2010 and June 2011 through workshops, events, and dialogues.
Pangea World Theater, along with the Lao Assistance Center and Intermedia Arts Minnesota, will bring TeAda Production's Refugee Nation theater performance to the Twin Cities, an acclaimed interdisciplinary/multimedia presentation that explores the impact of war, refugees, global politics and U. S. citizenship.
In the Diverse Stages program, Pangea teaching artists and the fine arts faculty of Southwest High School will introduce students to material that will enhance core curriculum as well as prepare students to create original theatrical work based on their lives and issues.
Zenon proposes six residency programs at schools and community centers in Buffalo, Faribault, and Saint Paul, serving deaf/hard of hearing, at-risk, and general population students.
Children's Theatre Company will use theater, storytelling, and creative writing to introduce and enrich arts learning for students in grades 4 and 5 through a thirteen-session Neighborhood Bridges theater arts residency which also complements literacy goals.
Pillsbury House Theatre and the Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center will work together to integrate arts learning into five of the non-arts community programs, reaching people ages 20 months to 50 years.
Three public performances and seven days of outreach in Duluth, Fergus Falls, and Rochester will bring Ragamala’s work to underserved areas and educate new audiences about the arts/culture of India and Japan.
Semilla: The Phillips Mosaic Project will train youth and adult artistic leaders in mosaic arts, while beautifying the neighborhood and building community through workshops with community partners, the result of which will be mosaic planters throughout the community.
The Phillips art project, Semilla, will expand to teach mosaic and mural arts to bilingual, multigenerational communities by training youth and adult artists as arts facilitators and by creating mosaic planters and murals that help unify the community.
The Singers-Minnesota Choral Artists will present concerts in Staples and Duluth. The Singers also will offer classes and outreach activities to local high school and community choirs.
The community of special needs learners at the South Education Center (Richfield) will participate in extended, quality arts learning, increasing their skills in arts participation and producing lasting artwork for the school gardens and entry.
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's Family Matters Project will conduct ten-day dance residencies for core groups of fourth to sixth graders in three West Metro Education Program member districts, including planning, lecture/demonstrations, daily classroom workshops, community workshops, concluding performances, and evaluation.
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
