MacPhail Center for Music requests $75,000 to develop and expand its Inclusive Partnership Initiative to four community partnerships (from 54 to 58) in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota reaching 850 additional students and recruiting five new teaching artists rooted in arts-based community-building.
MacPhail Center for Music will expand its Creative Aging Program to seven assisted living communities and enroll 700 seniors in participatory music activities based on an accessible, sequential learning model.
Matinee Musicale will bring the Parker Quartet to Duluth to perform in October 2011; the quartet also will give lecture/demonstrations for two high schools and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Symphony. The violinist Arnaud Sussmann will perform in concert in November.
Saint Paul Public Schools will increase access to arts learning for underserved African American and other students by establishing two artist residencies in Maxfield Magnet Elementary School that include culturally relevant arts learning experiences for 240 students, community/family events, and teacher/artist professional development.
Read, Explore, Create provides students the opportunity to read a Milkweed Editions book, explore the themes of the book through an artist residency, visit with the author, and create a work of art integrating these experiences.
Working in partnership with nearby community organizations, Minneapolis College of Art and Design will engage children, youth, and teens from low-income families in its studio art and design programs.
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will conduct Minnesota library tours to six different regions of greater Minnesota, performing six library concerts in each region for a total of 36 concerts.
Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musicals promote positive images of children with mental health disorders. We will bring live musical theatre to three residential treatment programs.
Open Book will plan literary and book arts experiences with and for underserved neighbors in Cedar-Riverside and other nearby communities. Community writing residencies will culminate in free participatory Family Days featuring community and established writers, book artists, food, and festivity.
In partnership with three community-based organizations, MCBA will launch The Teen Voices Project, which offers customized workshops to introduce teens to creative expression through the book arts.
Minnesota Film Arts proposes, as part of a long-term strategy, to reach out to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities, by presenting ethnically-themed film festival(s) every year. We plan to launch this programming in 2010 with an Asian Film Festival.
This season features four performances, beginning in October 2010 and ending in April 2011: Cellist Zuill Bailly, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Harlem Gospel Choir, and gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos with his band of gypsy musicians.
Pursuant to its new long-term strategy, MFA will reach out for a second year to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities with a proposed Latin American Film Festival.
The Fringe will increase arts participation first by bringing diverse and under-represented audiences, then by recruiting artists from those audiences to produce shows of their own, continuing the diversification cycle.
The Minnesota Guitar Society seeks funding to support a series of concerts, workshops, master classes, and in-school visits by 10 internationally renowned guitarists from abroad and the U. S., to be presented in Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and South St. Paul.
Minnesota Guitar Society will present a series of concerts, workshops, master classes, and in-school visits by guitarists from abroad and across the Unites States in Duluth, Fergus Falls, and the Twin Cities and their suburbs.
Minnesota Museum of American Art requests funding for a touring exhibition of highlights from its outstanding collection of American art from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on the art of Minnesota and the region.
Minnesota Museum of American Art requests funding for a touring exhibition of highlights from its outstanding collection of American art from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on the art of Minnesota and the region.
The Minnesota Orchestra is committed to making meaningful concert and education connections with audiences statewide; it is working with Watertown, Dawson, and Brainerd for 2011 concert engagements.
To provide unprecedented access to in-depth, high-quality arts instruction (an average of 10 contact hours per student) on MCFTA campus, at its new classroom at Ridgedale Center, and in the community for an estimated 500 at-risk and economically disadvantaged children and youth identified by seven grassroots community partners
To revolutionize access, Mixed Blood proposes FREE THEATRE - no-cost access to productions, eliminating the economic barrier to more effectively engage underrepresented populations.
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.
Mixed Blood Theatre will expand access for Somali immigrant populations in the 55454/Cedar Riverside neighborhood through activities including a partnership with Bedlam Theatre, fostering increased engagement through Somali community-led events and activities, Mixed Blood-produced programming, and a unique performance program.
In its project, Out the Door, Round the Block: The Art and Science of the Neighborhood, learners of all ages will work with five professional artists to create original works of art to be shared with the community.
Nautilus will tour its production of, I AM ANNE FRANK, to rural Minnesota, sponsored in year one by the Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview, the Duluth Festival Opera, and the Bemidji Symphony; with three new sites in year two.
Nautilus will tour its chamber music-theater productions to five cities throughout Minnesota: Duluth, Bemidji, Plainview, Saint Cloud, and Bigfork, sponsored in each city by an established presenter.
Nordic Arts Alliance presents the Viking world/roots tribal contemporary music band Krauka from Denmark/Iceland in a rural and urban Northern Minnesota tour September 2010 with project components including master classes, school and library workshops, and public performances.
Nordic Arts Alliance in Moorhead, in cooperation with local colleges, is building new relationships with 18-24-year-old underserved audience members to overcome barriers to understanding, appreciation, and participation in contemporary and tribal Nordic arts in Minnesota.
Northern Clay Center proposes a series of partnerships with community organizations that serve individuals 55 years of age and older, which would provide ongoing clay instruction, lifelong learning in the arts, and opportunities for multi-generational collaboration to place-bound and somewhat mobile populations.
The Northern Lights Chamber Players will present chamber music concerts in four Minnesota cities; a fully staged production of Peter and the Wolf will tour to Ely after performances in Aurora.
Northrop Concerts and Lectures is piloting a community access program designed to build sustainable relationships with four underserved populations; provide programming reflective of cultural identity and interest; remove barriers of participation; and create points of entry/context for performances.
Off-Leash Area's 2011 Neighborhood Garage Tour, touring contemporary performance to the metro suburbs: 24 performances in 12 neighborhoods over 3 months, reaching approx. 850 people.
Open Eye will launch a visibility campaign to engage those in the community that do not participate in the arts because of perceived barriers of affordability or lack of awareness of the theater.
To develop and implement the second phase of the Artist Teaching Artist professional development program in FY11 and then support for a new retinue of teaching artists to begin the Artist Teaching Artist training in FY12.
The Ordway will increase access for senior citizens with limited income and/or transportation challenges to attend “Guys and Dolls” and contribute stories of the time period through workshops with artists.
Hyphe-NATIONS: Immigrants Matter is a community-based project that will involve creating a sustained relationship with Latina/o immigrants and the Latin American community of Lake Street and its surrounding neighborhoods between July 2010 and June 2011 through workshops, events, and dialogues.
Pangea World Theater, along with the Lao Assistance Center and Intermedia Arts Minnesota, will bring TeAda Production's Refugee Nation theater performance to the Twin Cities, an acclaimed interdisciplinary/multimedia presentation that explores the impact of war, refugees, global politics and U. S. citizenship.
In the Diverse Stages program, Pangea teaching artists and the fine arts faculty of Southwest High School will introduce students to material that will enhance core curriculum as well as prepare students to create original theatrical work based on their lives and issues.
Park Square's Theatre Ambassadors Program is a nine-month program to strengthen the skills and leadership of twenty teens through artist-led workshops, performances, and service projects that serve an additional 500 community members.
