Funding to produce and present Diabetes of Democracy, a multidisciplinary performance project that uses culturally-specific cuisine and storytelling to raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes. Performances will take place at Intermedia Arts in October 2011.
Funding for the 2011 Thanksgiving Celebration Pow-Wow, a three-day community event dedicated to preserving and celebrating Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk traditional dance and drumming. The event will be held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center during
Funding to produce and stage 16 site-specific performances of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor adapted as an operetta. The project will take place in summer 2011.
Funding for a three-day international film festival featuring 12 works by Indigenous filmmakers of Bolivia, Canada, and Minnesota. The festival will include audience discussions with directors and additional films produced by local youth. The festival wil
The Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the Humanities Center’s “Arts & Cultural Legacy” program will educate, highlight, and promote understanding of the arts and cultural heritage of Asian American and Pacific Islanders for all Minnesotans. The Program consists of 3 elements 1) capacity building via the Artists Fellowship Program and the Asian Pacific Youth Council; 2) print and media via the creation of books for young readers; and 3) arts programming.
