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.
Family Matters Project is a series of 2-week residencies for schools in the 11 member West Metro Education Program districts which will include the history of dance, movement skills, dance creation and performance by students, planning and evaluation time, and workshops for the community.
The Moving Stories project will introduce the power of dance to caregivers at the Hennepin County Medical Center through a series of workshops, performances, and free tickets to SPDT's Home Season.
Stuart Pimsler Dance and 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.
We are seeking an Arts Access grant to tour the three shows of our 2010-2011 to audiences in Alexandria, St. Cloud, and Leech Lake, in hopes of building new relationships with groups that serve low-income people in these communities.
Textile Center will conduct 12-week fiber art residencies at Sobriety High Charter School sites in Coon Rapids and Edina. This standards-based residency will complement and extend academic programming for students who are recovering from alcohol and drug dependency.
The Textile Center will create a touring exhibition showcasing artistic excellence and innovation in fiber art by accomplished Minnesota fiber artists. The fiber art exhibition will initially travel to Bemidji, Lanesboro, Mankato, and New York Mills and will include hands-on education activities.
The Textile Center will create a touring exhibition showcasing artistic excellence and innovation in fiber art by accomplished Minnesota fiber artists. The fiber art exhibition will initially travel to Bemidji, Lanesboro, Mankato, and New York Mills and will include hands-on education activities.
Servant Hearts and The Phoenix, the gay straight alliance of Bemidji State University will present a community outreach concert by the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus at Bemidji State University.
Stage Elements is an eleven-day summer intensive for high school students taught at a college level that introduces participants to the wide variety of theatrical styles and techniques, classical and contemporary, that we teach at the University of Minnesota.
Upstream Arts is requesting support of its arts residency program in twenty Minneapolis Public Schools’ Special Education classrooms in the 2011-2012 school year. Students of all abilities will participate in music, dance, visual arts, poetry, and theater.
To increase arts access, Urban Arts will create bilingual core arts instruction classes, held weekly in three-month sessions, to provide more in-depth knowledge and foster passions for specific art forms.
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, Saint Cloud, and Duluth, in November of 2011. Multiple-day residencies in each community will engage students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
Zenon Dance Company proposes a 3-week tour to southwestern Minnesota during April and May 2011. This includes Marshall, Pipestone, and Luverne, Minnesota. Zenon will perform evening length performances, 5-day intensive residencies, and master classes.
Zenon Dance Company proposes touring activities to Duluth, Grand Marais, Mankato, and Cloquet to conduct evening length performances and residency work in each community.
Zenon will expand its work with the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community through a one-week residency at Humboldt Junior High; a free matinee during Zenon's Twin Cities' season; and a free performance of "The Nutcracker According to Mother Goose."
