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.
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.
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.
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 revolutionize access, Mixed Blood proposes FREE THEATRE - no-cost access to productions, eliminating the economic barrier to more effectively engage underrepresented populations.
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 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.
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.
Park Square will increase access for patrons with disabilities by implementing initiatives to overcome identified barriers: price, limited interpreted performances and knowledge of access services.
Children's Theatre Company will use theater, storytelling, and creative writing to introduce and enrich arts learning for students in grades 4 and 5 through a thirteen-session Neighborhood Bridges theater arts residency which also complements literacy goals.
Three public performances and seven days of outreach in Duluth, Fergus Falls, and Rochester will bring Ragamala’s work to underserved areas and educate new audiences about the arts/culture of India and Japan.
In season 2010-2011, the St. Croix Concert Series will present four chamber music concerts accompanied by outreach activities in two elementary schools, a junior high school, the Stillwater Public Library, and Croixdale Senior Citizen residence.
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
TU Dance will tour to two greater Minnesota communities (Bigfork and Fergus Falls), presenting public performances and collaborating with each partner to conduct master classes, reach underserved populations, and engage the largest and broadest possible audiences.
Servant Hearts and The Phoenix, the gay straight alliance of Bemidji State University will present a community outreach concert by the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus at Bemidji State University.
The University of Minnesota-Morris Performing Arts Series includes five events presenting high quality and diverse music, theater, and dance performances and associated public educational activities by regional, national, and international artists.
Upstream Arts is requesting support of its arts residency program in twenty Minneapolis Public Schools’ Special Education classrooms in the 2011-2012 school year. Students of all abilities will participate in music, dance, visual arts, poetry, and theater.
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, Saint Cloud, and Duluth, in November of 2011. Multiple-day residencies in each community will engage students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
Zeitgeist will present for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc and text by Kevin Kling, which will tour to four communities in northwest Minnesota.
Zenon Dance Company proposes touring activities to Duluth, Grand Marais, Mankato, and Cloquet to conduct evening length performances and residency work in each community.
Offering "Unsung Among Us" project - Music learning experience for North Minneapolis neighborhood at-risk youth: music training/twice-a-week, offering piano/guitar/drum classes at open music lab/youth creating songs, and re-mix of the Asian music classic to be broadcasted at RadioASIA.
TU Dance proposes to launch an access initiative reaching out to people of color to engage new (first-time) audiences, with presentations by the artistic directors to target groups throughout the Twin Cities supported by efforts that address specific participation barriers.
VSA arts of Minnesota staff will conduct audience development work in five greater Minnesota communities to increase participation at arts performances by people who are deaf/hard of hearing or blind/low vision.
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, St. Cloud, and Duluth in November of 2011 with multiple-day residencies in each community, engaging students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
VocalEssence will expand !Cantar! - a community engagement program that engages diverse communities in the discovery, celebration, and creation of music inspired by Mexican traditions to Worthington, Minnesota, a community with a growing Mexican immigrant population, for a two-year residency program.
