Grand Symphonic Winds will collaborate with the Mesabi Community Band to bring its contemporary, international repertoire and performance practices to the Iron Range through a performance and arts learning activities.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater artists, assisted by teaching artist/writer Florence Dacey, will lead Granite Falls Manor residents in creating memory masks based on their life stories.
Peace O' Ground, a year-long integrated arts initiative, will provide children, families, and neighbors of Duluth's Hillside multiple opportunities to experience and participate in deepening understanding of their neighborhood through the literary, visual, and performing arts.
The Theatre 4 All Initiative will eliminate barriers to ensure access to quality live theater for 1,000 disadvantaged youth in St. Cloud's inner-city schools.
Moving Matters is a dance and moving arts project that will bring quality dance experience to adults with mental illness and mental health workers. The project will be used as a healing art that will enhance recovery and stimulate healthy partnerships between workers and clients, as well as be a new medium to raise community awareness about mental illness.
The Schools On Stage residency program uses Shakespearean texts to inspire creativity in teens, culminating in student created works that are performed on the Guthrie stage.
The Guthrie Theater will create $5 Previews, promoted through nonprofits, college job placement offices, and (re)employment agencies, to provide access for underemployed and emerging professionals aged 21-35.
The Second Tuesdays Project is a free, monthly event featuring artmaking and artist talks that will broaden public access to art experiences and engage new audiences.
Hillcrest Community School's project plans collaborative residencies for all students, grades pre-K to 5, to receive video instruction with artist Mike Hazard and jazz study with musicians Ruth MacKenzie and Joan Griffith, that will produce a completed video presentation showcasing their achievements in both artistic disciplines.
History Theatre is seeking funds to establish a new theater access program targeted toward schools and community programs in greater Minnesota in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society.
Hmong Arts Connection request funds to produce two issues of Paj Ntaub Voice, the premier literary Hmong magazine, and to launch our Hmong writers speaking and teaching series.
Illusion Theater requests a two-year grant to tour, My Antonia and Autistic License, to 10-12 Minnesota communities each year. Through this, Illusion will expand its touring in Minnesota, provide playwriting workshops, and bring quality arts experiences to youth and adults.
Illusion Theater will use a variety of innovative and enjoyable strategies to create free access for adults and families from Northside Minneapolis to attend Illusion productions.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre will tour, Are You Thirsty, a puppetry show about water stewardship, in partnership with nature centers and local government-sponsored community festivals.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre will conduct a year-long residency for Phillips neighborhood youth who have limited access to arts enrichment programs in partnership with Waite House, Little Earth, and Hope Community.
Sumunar will provide residencies (two years) in Indonesian gamelan music and dance, taught by artist/teachers, collaborating with Main Street Performing Art School, Hopkins, Prairie Seed Academy, Brooklyn Park, Oak Hill Elementary, St. Cloud, and Normandale French Immersion School, Edina.
Sumunar and Marion W. Savage Elementary School will collaborate in a two-week residency in Indonesian gamelan music making, with intensive daily instruction for special education classes, introductory sessions for general classrooms, and a concluding performance for parents and the public.
Dis/Cover the Arts expands our capacity to grow audiences of people with disabilities by removing barriers, better fulfilling our mission to create art that challenges perceptions of disability.
The Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project will provide a two-year series of six performance art residencies for 124 students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.
The Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project will provide a two-year series of six performance art residencies for 124 students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.
The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project will present a touring version of its recent Art of Conflict visual art exhibition and, The Unreturned, a film, to six communities in greater Minnesota.
Schoolwide theater residency with artist Perrin Boyd, culmiting in the public performance of student created works at our community Peace Day and International Peace Site Rededication celebration.
To expand Juxtaposition Arts' Visual Arts Literacy Training and Free Wall Aerosol Art series, which are comprehensive introductory visual art and environmental design programs where 75 core youth will work with experienced artist teachers to create, interpret, and exhibit drawings, painting, and murals in North Minneapolis.
The Dancing Heart Lifelong Learning Through the Arts program will bring Kairos' successful, evidence-based dance and storytelling learning program to older adults who are interested in participating in a high-quality arts program that will help maintain and improve their health.
The Dancing Heart Lifelong Learning Through the Arts program will bring Kairos' successful, evidence-based dance and storytelling learning program to older adults who are interested in participating in a high-quality arts program that will help maintain and improve their health.
We will present four concerts by world-class chamber musicians: Osmo Vanska's celebrated quintet, exciting mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke, the vital Copper Street Brass Quintet, and dazzling young pianist Grace Fong. Cooke, the Brass Quintet, and Fong will present master classes.
Great Tap for an Even Greater Minnesota will travel to greater Minnesota providing free tap dance education and low cost performance to communities underserved regarding arts performance/educational opportunities, fitting into its mission to "expand the boundaries of American tap dance."
Kulture Klub Collaborative will work with teaching artist Marcus Young to develop artwork with a community of young people experiencing homelessness, reflecting on the relationship between inner lives and public space.
Kulture Klub Collaborative will develop and empower a Youth Advisory Council to build several new initiatives, broadening and deepening artistic engagement for young people experiencing homelessness.
In summer/fall 2010, Kulture Klub Collaborative will bring Brooklyn-based multi-media artist Oliver Herring and Minnesota film/video artist Brennan Vance together with Twin Cities' youth experiencing homelessness through an intensive workshop of digital video, autobiographical and screenwriting, and public art intervention.
LPT' project will 1) perform shows in senior facilities, 2) perform a children' show in a family transitional housing facility and 3) bring those families to attend shows at our theater.
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.
Artists Ross Sutter and Margo McCreary will conduct a two-week artist in residency at Laporte Elementary School in which K-6 students will create and study birds, bird habitat, song, diet, flight, and more.
Leonardo' Basement will direct a planning process with community organizations in an economically disadvantaged community to develop an interactive sculpture park located in a Saint Paul park.
Linwood Monroe Arts Plus proposes to engage nine artists to present high quality residencies for all students and professional development for arts specialists. Detailed planning, arts integration, and response protocols are key elements of the plan.
This project increases access to high quality arts residencies for all Linwood/Monroe K-8 students, supports staff, and artists in developing new skills in planning arts integration residencies, and embeds collaborative response protocols into more areas of our work with students.
The Loft will extend its reach to writers–and those in the making— who lack access to its Twin Cities-based creative writing education services by creating online learning opportunities and a vital online literary learning community.
Lyra proposes to produce 5 baroque chamber concerts in a simultaneous but dual-concert format, one for adults and one for children, to remove the barriers that keep families from attending concerts.
To expand MacPhail's pilot Creative Aging Program from one to five assisted living and retirement communities, and to increase hands-on music participation from 120 to 700 seniors.
