In her film, Woven from the Land, diverse women talk about the prairie, loss of rural culture, and connection to land. Screened primarily in rural communities, post-screening discussions will encourage dialogue about the history of land, racism, and healing.
McLaughlin will share original music, fingerstyle guitar technique, arrangements of traditional Christmas music and story with communities in greater Minnesota through performance and educational workshops.
Pelon will collaborate with writer Gary Holthaus to present, The Story of Music-Stories from Home, a program of music and spoken word, at seventeen arts centers, museums, and libraries in Minnesota.
Curtis and Loretta to present, Minnesota Heritage in Song, a concert of songs and commentary from early Minnesota history. With period costumes and instruments, they immerse the audience so they might truly experience the lives of our ancestors in those times.
Butch Thompson will present a series of traditional jazz performances throughout the state of Minnesota. He will also conduct one K-12 educational outreach program in each community.
Larry Yazzie and Native Pride Productions will visit four Minnesota communities to present their educational outreach program and public show for more than 50,000 audience members and broadcast audience.
Deborah Elias and twelve partners will present performances of Flamenco, Pure and Strong, flamenco guitar, song, and dance with community engagement and arts learning in twelve communities in 2011-12.
The project will deliver global music concerts, workshops, and activities to 2,000 persons in three underserved communities: seniors in care facilities, youth, and adults with disabilities.
Actors Theater of Minnesota will tour the Hockey Mom Hockey Dad production to the Pioneer Place on Fifth Theater in St. Cloud, Minnesota, during January 2011.
In partnership with VSA arts of Minnesota and Northfield Arts Guild, Epic Enterprise will develop and embed a multi-arts program for adults with developmental disabilities and build staff capacity to teach arts as an ongoing and daily program at Epic.
Actors Theater of Minnesota offers free theater, a meal, transportation, and after-play educational questions and answers for members of our community partners grandparents/kin caregivers.
Using distance learning technology, Artspace and Springboard will help artists in Brainerd, Fergus Falls, and Duluth to engage with and provide arts experiences for their host communities.
In a new School-Community Access Project, SteppingStone Theatre will address barriers to participation and offer additional community-specific events for families in underserved communities.
Through Peking Opera/Chinese Acrobat, the Project connects under-served Asian American community with theatrical experience, and connects the younger generation with the century old art form.
The Ten Minute Play Festival will bring together community participants and professional artists to produce original short work providing access to the creative process, and developing new audiences.
Through the Cross-Connections Project Teatro del Pueblo will develop strategic relationships with artistic and community organizations to better reach recent Latino immigrants in the Twin Cities.
Caponi Art Park will increase access to the arts for underserved youth in Dakota County through a new outreach program of tours, activities and performances.
Huge Improv Theater will have T. J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi from Chicago, Illinois, tour their nationally recognized improv show to HUGE Theater in Minneapolis.
The Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud will present of series of six concerts by visiting professional ensembles, along with a variety of community outreach activities.
Tweed will engage Native audiences by 1)presenting museum collections and resources; 2)seeking input; and 3)documenting artists and resources to engage for programming.
CLIMB writes/performs six short one-acts outdoors at 28 rural community events; townspeople attending Intergenerational Dialogues choose the plays' topics, discuss theater, and learn our process.
COMPAS and Sibley Bike Depot will create jobs within ArtsWork, an arts-based, employment program, for youth to learn bike repair and work with artist Jan Elftmann to turn them into works of art.
The Duluth Festival Opera plans to tour a fully staged production of a new opera, "Pocahontas," composed by Minnesotan Linda Tutas Haugen in 2007, which features the music of Native Minnesota Ojibwe musicians.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation, Carlton MN; and the city of Two Harbors.
Students and community engage in a sustained art-making project exploring the significance of place and culminating in the creation of a mosaic mural that transforms the entrance of our school into a more welcoming environment affirming our diverse community.
Zenon seeks to create and implement an audience development plan targeting the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community, a group that traditionally lacks access to dance as an art form.
Minneapolis based FOOLS PRODUCTIONS proposes a tour of its newest show, THE VAUDEVILLIAN / Spirit of the American Dream to historic theaters and modern performing arts centers across greater Minnesota.
Working with local professional teaching artists, Overtures will feature north Minneapolis children as the starring attraction for 2 Minnesota Sinfonia performances to occur in North Minneapolis.
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.
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.
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.
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 will use a variety of innovative and enjoyable strategies to create free access for adults and families from Northside Minneapolis to attend Illusion productions.
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.
