Childish Films @ the Library is an innovative series of professionally curated classic, independent, and new world cinema for ages three and up. Free and open to the public, films are paired with hands-on arts activities for young children.
Lionsgate Academy will engage a variety of COMPAS artists over a 2-year period to address the unique learning and developmental needs and styles of students on the autism spectrum through increased opportunities for artistic learning, training, and expression.
Our mission is to expand access to literature and cultivate relationships in communities across the state of Minnesota by bringing two authors to nine locations, for a total of 14 events.
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2011: four coffee concerts at Nicollet Island, transportation provided; and one neighborhood concert at Elliot Park.
The project addresses engagement among underrepresented 20-somethings by addressing unique practical and perceptual barriers, building community networks, and providing participation incentives.
The Minnesota Orchestra will partner with the Minneapolis Public Schools to create UPbeat Encore, where students and families attend a concert at Orchestra Hall.
Timothy Sparks will underwrite a series of solo guitar performances, with accompanying master classes, guitar workshops, and lecture demonstrations, in small communities and schools throughout Minnesota.
With a 30-year track record of touring in Minnesota, Mixed Blood Theatre Company will tour seven productions to 16 statewide communities over the next two years to promote pluralism, to serve vulnerable Minnesotans, and to provoke discussion and education about cultural competence.
Art and Soul of the Arab Community is a program that will create a sustained relationship with the Twin Cities Arab American community between March 2011 and February 2012.
To design communication strategies that expose all Pillsbury House constituents (from current patrons to neighbors) to the multiple arts opportunities in Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center.
Pillsbury House Theatre and the Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center will work together to integrate arts learning into five of the non-arts community programs, reaching people ages twenty months to 50 years.
Pillsbury House Theatre will reduce economic and perceptual barriers to theater attendance by implementing an all pay-what-you-can run of BROKE-OLOGY in the winter of 2011 and promoting it specifically to low-income neighborhood residents and participants of community partner organizations.
At the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis, Latin orchestras Charanga Tropical and Tropical Zone Orchestra will perform two concerts, introducing a diverse audinence to Latin music during FLOW.
Expand the Stories project for English Language Learner students, writing and performing their migration stories, to three additional public schools in St. Paul and Minneapolis, providing more arts learning opportunities to students who face barriers to participation.
The Play in the Park project will bring to Red Wing the Live Action Set Minneapolis theater group's production of, The 7-Shot Symphony, including a youth workshop and after-production.
Rhythmic Circus Productions (RCP) aims to present performances and educational outreach to seven communities throughout greater Minnesota, who have sought out RCP specifically based on its reputation, myriad of performing arts and creativity represented, and innovative and energetic learning opportunities.
Rose Ensemble will present an eight city tour of, Songs of Temperance and Temptation: 100 Years of Restraint and Revelry in Minnesota, with concerts/pre-concert discussions/research and choral music workshops.
The Rose Ensemble will significantly expand the scope and depth of its annual greater Minnesota tour by bringing in-school workshops, adult arts learning experiences, and affordable concerts of medieval and Renaissance music to six old and new touring communities.
The Saint Paul Community Youth Arts Project will dramatically increase Saint Paul Parks and Recreations ability to use its many community spaces to engage Saint Paul at-risk youth in grades K-12 in high-quality arts learning opportunities during out-of-school time hours.
The Minnesota Teen Artist Exhibition Program (MTAEP) will allow Soo to reach out to teen artists, an under- represented group in our programming, and present their contributions to the public.
Aronson will collaborate with eleven presenters to bring puppetry performances and learning experiences to suburban, rural and urban family audiences across Minnesota, expanding on the work of her 2010 Arts Tour grant.
In 2011, she will tour (as Z Puppets Rosenschnoz) to Duluth Children's Museum, Mankato's Children's Museum, and Austin's Paramount Theatre. Throughout the year, she will present a total of 30 performances and 60 hours of arts education experiences in nearby communities.
Son del Sur performers Nicolas Carter and Mauricio Sanchez will collaborate with host organizations in Cold Spring, Moorhead, Red Wing, and Worthington to offer engaging performances that inspire an appreciation of Latin America’s rich musical heritage and promotes cultural understanding.
Linda Chatterton will work on a performing/educational project within three communities: Bemidji, Willmar, and Northfield. Each community will have her give a recital, master class, and presentation on overcoming performance anxiety. All three will be open to the public.
This project will bring the multi-media show, The Mushroom Picker, about an unlikely World War II hero from a small Midwestern town to the following Minnesota towns: Warroad, Roseau, Lake Bronson, Stephen, Perham, Detroit Lakes, and Grand Rapids.
Gao Hong will conduct two residency programs within the Northfield, Minnesota community. One will be a ten-day school residency for fifth graders at Greenvale Park Elementary School. The second will be a twelve-day residency with the Northfield Youth Choir's Anima Choir.
Herrera will perform Latin and Cuban jazz concerts and classes with his trio at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids, the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts series in Pequot Lakes, and at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University in Collegeville.
In her film, Woven from the Land, diverse women talk about the prairie, loss of rural culture, and connection to land. Screened primarily in rural communities, post-screening discussions will encourage dialogue about the history of land, racism, and healing.
McLaughlin will share original music, fingerstyle guitar technique, arrangements of traditional Christmas music and story with communities in greater Minnesota through performance and educational workshops.
Pelon will collaborate with writer Gary Holthaus to present, The Story of Music-Stories from Home, a program of music and spoken word, at seventeen arts centers, museums, and libraries in Minnesota.
Curtis and Loretta to present, Minnesota Heritage in Song, a concert of songs and commentary from early Minnesota history. With period costumes and instruments, they immerse the audience so they might truly experience the lives of our ancestors in those times.
Butch Thompson will present a series of traditional jazz performances throughout the state of Minnesota. He will also conduct one K-12 educational outreach program in each community.
Larry Yazzie and Native Pride Productions will visit four Minnesota communities to present their educational outreach program and public show for more than 50,000 audience members and broadcast audience.
The Vecchione/Erdahl Duo will tour with recitals of new music for oboe/bass duo to Owatonna, Grand Rapids, and Duluth; and with Pages of Music with Rolf and Carrie educational programs to 32 communities served by the Great River Regional Library system.
Prudence Johnson and A Girl Named Vincent is a concert presentation of Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry set to music by four Minnesota composers and performed by singer Prudence Johnson and a five-piece acoustic ensemble, with a scripted narrative and projected images, providing historical context and a visual component that captures the tone of the music and poetry.
Deborah Elias and twelve partners will present performances of Flamenco, Pure and Strong, flamenco guitar, song, and dance with community engagement and arts learning in twelve communities in 2011-12.
The purpose of this three-venue tour is to collaborate with two other artists to expand our exposure and to perform in small venues in greater Minnesota.
The project will deliver global music concerts, workshops, and activities to 2,000 persons in three underserved communities: seniors in care facilities, youth, and adults with disabilities.
Actors Theater of Minnesota will tour the Hockey Mom Hockey Dad production to the Pioneer Place on Fifth Theater in St. Cloud, Minnesota, during January 2011.
