Funding to produce and stage the organization’s second summer musical. Performances will take place in summer 2011 at the Fridley High School auditorium.
Funding for winter and spring sessions of early childhood music classes in the northwestern suburbs for children birth to 8-years-old and their families.
The project has the goal of providing additional opportunities for students interested in the Ojibwe language to be able to pursue and be exposed to more Ojibwe language and culture and to become a fluent speaker. This would be accomplished with internship during that include tutoring, leading study groups, and being teachers aides for language instructors, creating public awareness of the Ojbiwe language through radio, print, the Leech Lake Tribal College website, signage in public buildings and other opportunities that are available for encouraging language preservation.
NACDI, in collaboration with All My Relations Arts, will present Tradish: Contemporary Treatments of Traditional Dakota and Ojibwe Arts. Tradish will exhibit work by expert and award-winning American Indian artists who live and work in Minnesota.
Dance Revels Moving History will work with local French and Metis (French-Indian) cultural specialist/interpreter Virgil Benoit, French Director Josette Antomarchi, and several French cultural groups to produce dance workshops, discussions about being bi-racial, and a dance theater show about the Metis founding father of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Pierre Bottineau and his multi-racial world.
The Hmong Arts Connection (HArC) promotes and inspires artistic expressions of Hmong culture through storytelling, in partnership with L’Etoile du Nord French Immersion School. Professional Hmong storytellers will connect with K-6 classrooms to perform and teach the art of Hmong storytelling.
All My Relations Arts Plaza at the first annual American Indian Cultural Corridor Festival along Franklin Avenue will present and honor traditional arts of indigenous Minnesota communities in the Twin Cities through a two-day, multidisciplinary arts event that uplifts an entire neighborhood.
A Year of Swedish Slöjd at The American Swedish Institute promotes the perpetuation of authentic Swedish craft techniques and materials through adult and youth workshops, a university class, and an exhibit demonstrating art instructors' mastery and student learning.
This funding supports and ensures the success of the ACHF-funded Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants Program. It allows Society staff to seek out potential grant applicants, lead statewide grant-writing workshops and webinars, and help applicants with technical information critical to submitting a successful grant application, as well as supporting recipients throughout the life of their projects.
