Ragamala Dance and Mu Daiko will present a shared public performance at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, providing an affordable experience of Indian and Japanese performing arts to the southern Twin Cities suburbs, and a free school matinee.
The Edge Center plans to host Stages Theatre Company. Stages will bring professional actors, musicians, and technical directors to enrich audiences and provide embedded staff development to local artists and technicians. Stages will provide guidance for further development of our theatre.
Cantus's access project will bring its singers to community centers and other sites to perform and interact with underserved communities in a new Cantus Harmony initiative, and will dedicate 10 percent of home concert tickets to low-income music-lovers, an ongoing effort.
Illusion Theater will launch a 3-week summer intensive arts education program bringing in high school students from across the state, working together to create a play that they will perform several times for youth and the community.
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.
The Loft will deepen its relationships with and investigate and remove barriers to participation in Loft programs for writers and literary readers and those in the makings who are recent immigrants, people living with disabilities, and teens.
