Funding to provide high school youth access to an intimate, in-depth and high quality professional theatre experience, stimulate critical thinking, and cultivate a sense of arts appreciation with at-risk youth at alternative high schools in the Twin Citie
Funding for the Summer Youth Chorus, providing education, coaching, and performance opportunities for young men of high school and college age. Activities will take place between February and July 2012.
Funding to develop and remount the play Pinocchio-chan, an original stage adaptation utilizing the stylized Japanese performance techniques of kabuki and ningyo-buri. Performances will take place in winter 2010.
Funding to re-establish training programs for actors focusing on traditional Asian theater techniques. The program will have one component for introductory students and one for developing the skills of Green T core company members, and will run from Febr
Funding to present a four concert series of Indian classical music. The series will include a fall festival of work by local artists and will begin in August 2010.
Funding for an Indonesian performing arts residency at Lake Country Montessori School in Minneapolis involving students in grades 4 to 6 in gamelan music, traditional dance, and shadow puppetry. The residency will occur in 2012.
Funding for an Art Camp during which students in grades 6 to 9 will be trained by professional artists in music, video, visual art, or theater and dance. The project is in partnership with Hope Academy in South Minneapolis and will take place for two week
Funding for a concert featuring New York-based trumpeter Marcus Printup performing with the Jazz is NOW!’s NOWnet members. The concert will take place at the Minnesota Opera Center in December 2010.
Funding for two concerts featuring the JazzMN Orchestra and special guests Mike Stern, and Sizzling T-bone Entree with Andy Martin. Concerts will be held in March and April 2011, at Hopkins High School’s Performing Arts Center.
Funding for New Symphonies, a 13-day summer festival of new music by composers ages 14 to 20. Festival activities will take place in July 2011 at the University of Minnesota.
Funding for an arts learning opportunity for youth experiencing homelessness with puppet artist Bart Buch, who will conduct weekly puppet workshops at YouthLink in March and April, and culminating in performance during In the Heart of the Beast’s May Day
Funding for a six-month arts intensive training program, partnering Lao youth and emerging artists with an Oscar-nominated Lao director, award-winning writers, performers, and visual artists. Activities will take plan in North Minneapolis between July and
Funding for workshops, classes and performance for professional dance artists, choreographers and performers with artist and educator Julyen Hamilton at the Mississippi/Ebro Dance Festival from October 27 to November 13, 2011 in Minneapolis.
Funding to create and produce a world premier play based on Edward Gorey’s children’s book, Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus. Performances will take place during the Minnesota Fringe Festival at the Mill City Museum in August 2011.
Funding for the Music and Dance from Around the World program, a partnership between Lyndale Neighborhood Association and the Hosmer Library to present culturally diverse music and dance performances. Performances will take place at the Hosmer Library and
Funding for baroque instrument presentations at Capitol Hill Magnet, Ramsey Junior High, and Murray Junior High schools in February, March and April of 2011, and the presentation of a Young People’s Concert in collaboration with the Schubert Club at the L
Funding for the 2011 – 2012 Season featuring five Baroque concerts and a master class series. Performances will take place at Sundin Hall at Hamline University in St. Paul between October 2011 and May 2012.
Funding for a twelve thousand square foot, anti-gang graffiti mural to be created by community members lead by artist Jimmy Langoria. The mural will be painted on a retaining wall between August and October 2011.
Funding for the creation of murals and related documentation and archiving by students at Northport Elementary School in Brooklyn Center in September and October of 2011.
Funding for five concerts of live orchestral music from varying eras. Performances will take place in metro area locations between November 2010 and May 2011.
Funding to present the world premieres of two newly commissioned works for the quartet. Gao Hong’s Impressions of Dong Minority People for Pipa and Guitar Quartet, and Van Stiefel’s Cinema Castaneda, will be performed at Twin Cities locations in March 201
Funding to produce and stage The Story of My Life, a musical that tells the story of two childhood friends, and how that friendship profoundly defined their lives. Performances will take place at the Illusion Theater in March 2012.
Funding for a six-week ceramics project and the African American Culture Camp, an annual six-day art immersion camp for youth. The project will begin in August 2011.
Funding for the organization’s fall concert, featuring internationally renowned violin soloist Andrew Sords. Performances will take place at Sundin Hall in November 2011.
Funding for the Spoken Word and Literacy Institute, an outreach literacy program for local high school students and teachers. The Institute will be held over two weekends in May 2011.
Funding for the 7th annual Arab Film Festival. The four-day festival will feature 20 films by Arab and Arab-American emerging, independent, and established filmmakers. The event will take place at The Heights Theatre in November 2011.
Funding to present an exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Shawn Cheng premiering a series of screen prints that explore the history, mythology, legend, and folktales of the artist’s native Taiwan.
Funding to produce and stage Jean Genet’s, The Balcony. Performance will be held at the organization’s new space in northeast Minneapolis in February 2011.
Funding for Now We See You, Now We Don’t, an original dance and theatre production about a visual artist who goes blind. Performances will take place at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, in March 2011.
Funding for a four-week black and white photography workshop that will partner teens from Centro, a social service organization serving Latino and Chicano communities, with Augsburg College photography students in July and August of 2011.
Funding for “All About Me,” a three-week digital media project for 40 youth from Central and surrounding South Minneapolis neighborhoods in the summer of 2011.
Funding for “Challenging Perceptions: PRI Artists Focus on the Walker Art Center,” a 25-week program beginning in May 2011 for 20 adults with developmental disabilities to learn drawing and painting through exposure to the Walker’s permanent collection.
Funding for spoken word and music production residencies for up to 20 students at the PYC Arts & Tech High School. The residencies will take place in nine-week classes during the 2011-12 school year.
Funding for the 11th annual Twin Cities Book Festival, a free one-day public literary event featuring readings, panel discussions, book signings, writing workshops, book art demonstrations, storytelling, and other activities for all ages. The festival wil
Funding for Art Abilities, a four-part workshop introducing teens and adults with developmental disabilities to a variety of fine art forms. Workshops will take place at the Brooklyn Center Community Center in October and November 2010.
