Interact Center for the Visual & Performing Arts will 1) hire an Outreach & Communications consultant to work with staff to identify partners and opportunities for Interact artists with disabilities to present performances, arts exhibitions, and hands-creativity workshops throughout Minnesota; 2) create targeted outreach list; 3) create fresh messaging; 4) develop implementation plan; 5) facilitate training.
The Winona County Historical Society (WCHS) will partner with Engage Winona and The Joy Labs to create and launch a leadership circle from historically and currently marginalized communities, who will guide new exhibit development in collaboration with museum staff and exhibit professionals. Members of the leadership circle will co-design the leadership circle process, which will involve framing discussion questions, engagement plans, and exhibit content.
On December 11, 2023 a dedicated Hmong-American activist and leader, Tou Ger Xiong, was kidnapped and killed in Colombia. Tou Ger Xiong has dedicated his life to building bridges across cultures, speaking out against injustices to marginalized communities, advocating for active civic engagement among communities of color, and bringing people together through laughter. This grant aims to provide a space for the community to come together to collectively mourn the loss of Tou Ger Xiong.
This project will work with Ananya Chatterjea, Ananya Dance Theatre artists, Asian American puppeteers, and actors in a series of workshops to collaboratively devise a shared movement vocabulary and choreography rooted in non-Western movement traditions for the world premiere of FIFTY BOXES OF EARTH by Ankita Raturi in Theater Mu's 2024-25 season.
Funding for the 2011 National Asian/Pacific Islander American Spoken Word Summit. The four-day event will bring together local and national APIA artists to perform and participate in workshops and panel discussions. The summit will take place at The Loft
Funding for Twin Cities Refugee Day, a cultural festival featuring more than 50 local organizations serving refugees. The festival will take place in June 2011 at Minnehaha Falls Park in Minneapolis.
Funding to stage and perform the musical Oliver! as their sixth annual summer community theater production. Performances will take place at Stillwater Area High School in July 2011.
