IFTPA will collaborate with Sibley Elementary School in Northfield and the Northfield Community Chinese School to hire Chinese musician Gao Hong to do residencies at each school.
Mixed Precipitation will present fourteen free site-specific performances, in a new forms picnic operettas a hybrid opera accompanied by a five-course menu, created for outdoor performance in community garden spaces in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
To increase and diversify participation by new immigrant and communities of color in the outreach programs of Speaking of Home-St. Paul, a major public art project in the skyways of downtown St. Paul.
The Minnesota Music Coalition will produce and promote a statewide tour of performances and workshops featuring established and emerging musicians and bands working in fine arts presenting venues.
Funding to present the world premieres of two newly commissioned works for the quartet. Gao Hong’s Impressions of Dong Minority People for Pipa and Guitar Quartet, and Van Stiefel’s Cinema Castaneda, will be performed at Twin Cities locations in March 201
Professional theater artists will work for and with the West Side neighborhood of St. Paul to create a community-engaged theater production in which community stories inspire the script and score, and professional and community actors share the stage.
Given Minnesota students choose the arts and science as electives instead of having them as core curriculum, the purpose of this grant is to engage and enrich the lives of lifelong learners through effectively integrating the arts and sciences in our program.
Koom Siab United Hearts--a year-round Pan-Asian dance learning project--provides diverse Asian dance classes to disadvantaged Asian American youth to acquire knowledge/skills, and participate at Koom Siab Pan Asian dance performance.
Finnish-American artist Diane Jarvi, in cooperation with local historical and educational groups, will establish ongoing community kantele (Finnish folk harp) and Finnish folk music workshops, and initiate Finn Hall style cultural gatherings in Cokato, Minnesota.
Motionpoems, a formerly all-volunteer startup poetry film initiative, will build capacity to present our 3rd annual screening in October 2011, renamed as THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, at Open Book in Minneapolis, and will expand the impact of this annual hybrid film event on Minnesota artists and audiences.
Bloomington Early Childhood Family Center's Kinderprep will bring Children's Theatre Company's storytelling and critical-thinking early childhood program, Early Bridges, to our classroom for twenty sessions.
