Schoolwide theater residency with artist Perrin Boyd, culmiting in the public performance of student created works at our community Peace Day and International Peace Site Rededication celebration.
Kulture Klub Collaborative will work with teaching artist Marcus Young to develop artwork with a community of young people experiencing homelessness, reflecting on the relationship between inner lives and public space.
Kulture Klub Collaborative will develop and empower a Youth Advisory Council to build several new initiatives, broadening and deepening artistic engagement for young people experiencing homelessness.
Artists Ross Sutter and Margo McCreary will conduct a two-week artist in residency at Laporte Elementary School in which K-6 students will create and study birds, bird habitat, song, diet, flight, and more.
Leonardo' Basement will direct a planning process with community organizations in an economically disadvantaged community to develop an interactive sculpture park located in a Saint Paul park.
To expand MacPhail's pilot Creative Aging Program from one to five assisted living and retirement communities, and to increase hands-on music participation from 120 to 700 seniors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zenon proposes six residency programs at schools and community centers in Buffalo, Faribault, and Saint Paul, serving deaf/hard of hearing, at-risk, and general population students.
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.
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.
This project expands arts opportunities for participation and enjoyment of Bella Voce Young Women's Choir by underserved populations based on financial, gender, and geographical barriers.
The community of special needs learners at the South Education Center (Richfield) will participate in extended, quality arts learning, increasing their skills in arts participation and producing lasting artwork for the school gardens and entry.
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.
The Moving Stories project will introduce the power of dance to caregivers at the Hennepin County Medical Center through a series of workshops, performances, and free tickets to SPDT's Home Season.
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.
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.
To increase arts access, Urban Arts will create bilingual core arts instruction classes, held weekly in three-month sessions, to provide more in-depth knowledge and foster passions for specific art forms.
Veterans in the Arts' Advanced Level Classes are part of a progressive program to bring veterans into the arts through some of the Twin Cities leading centers: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Book Arts Center, and Northern Clay Center.
