VSA arts of Minnesota staff will conduct audience development work in five greater Minnesota communities to increase participation at arts performances by people who are deaf/hard of hearing or blind/low vision.
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, St. Cloud, and Duluth in November of 2011 with multiple-day residencies in each community, engaging students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
VocalEssence will expand !Cantar! - a community engagement program that engages diverse communities in the discovery, celebration, and creation of music inspired by Mexican traditions to Worthington, Minnesota, a community with a growing Mexican immigrant population, for a two-year residency program.
To support outreach efforts to the youth of North Minneapolis who are underserved and underrepresented and provide access to arts education and performance opportunities by eliminating perceived or real barriers to the arts.
Ragamala will present three public performances and more than three weeks of residency activities in Princeton, Northfield, and Rochester, bringing professional dance performances and learning activities to underserved areas and educating new audiences about the arts/culture of India.
Illusion Theater is requesting funds for a two-year project. We will tour both My Antonia and Autistic License both years and will include community workshops and discussion components. We will bring together a broad mix of people in each community.
Our project is a summer arts camp offering focused art teaching to students in grades 6-12, opportunities unavailable to them during the school year, and whose families are unable to provide them in summer.
To establish a scholarship fund that can be used by low-income residents in our community to ensure that anyone with an interest can access our programming regardless of financial ability.
Monica Haller will offer workshops to veterans from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other current conflicts in which they compile their images and words from combat into a book; each veteran takes his or her own book home to share with family and friends.
