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.
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2010: Four coffee concerts at the Nicollet Island Pavilion, with listeners bused in from Twin Cities' senior activity centers; and a neighborhood concert in Elliot Park.
To present the first annual Off-Leash Area Neighborhood Garage Tour of "A Gift for Planet BX63," a remount of its 2007 garage production, for a tour of sixteen performances in eight neighborhoods over two months, reaching an estimated 600 people.
The Twin Cities Elder Choir mobilizes and celebrates the voices of Minnesota's seniors, engaging new audiences and building understanding through performances by an artistically ambitious, 50-voice chorus organized in collaboration with the MacPhail Center and residential care facilities across the Twin Cities.
Arts Midwest World Fest is a performing arts touring program that addresses the lack of cross-cultural experiences and arts education in underserved communities by bringing international performing artists to small- and mid-sized communities across the nine-state upper Midwest region to conduct intensive week-long residencies.
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.
