ArtSplash is an art fair (jewelry, photography, sculpture, and more) that incorporates music by local folk musicians, art demonstrations for children, an art silent auction, and food and fun for all.
Northstar's Tellabration! is an annual festival held at Open Book the weekend after Thanksgiving, featuring traditional and contemporary storytelling and spoken word performance for all ages, as well as workshops, open microphones, and story swaps.
The Hamline Midway Spring Festival is a free, all-day event in Saint Paul's Newell Park, showcasing local bands, theater performances, visual arts, food vendors, civic engagement opportunities, and resources for residents.
Laotian Minnesotan artist festival celebrating 30 years in the United States including exhibits, performances, workshops of advanced and emerging artists, and community stakeholders.
The Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association seeks to increase public awareness and participation in the Art A Whirl 2012 event, increase sales, and ensure financial stability and long-term sustainability.
Northern Spark is a new Minnesota festival modeled on a "nuit blanche" or "white night" festival - a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding areas.
The Western Sculpture Park Art Festival will expose a diverse regional audience to a variety of art forms and genres, including folk and traditional art, by showcasing distinguished Minnesota artists in a celebration of art and community.
Rain Taxi will produce its 11th annual Twin Cities Book Festival, held in downtown Minneapolis and featuring Minnesota authors, presses, community booksellers, and book artists, as well as a select few national writers.
RiverSong Music Festival utilizes and highlights the abundant music, art, history and natural assets of the Hutchinson area to provide a distinct musical and artistic experience to community members and visitors of all ages and demographics.
The 2011 Selby Ave JazzFest is a free event that features great live music, family activities, interactive visual artist booths, and tasty food...all wrapped in a quilt of community.
The Qhia Dab Neeg (storytelling) Film Festival is a celebration of Hmong storytelling that carries with it the intent of honoring the history, tradition, and culture of the Hmong through the art of film and video.
To produce the 19th Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival (September 2010), featuring Minnesota storytellers with national master storytellers, folklorists, and scholars.
INSTEP will bring Children's Theatre Company's storytelling and critical-thinking early childhood program, Early Bridges, to our classroom, for 30 sessions with children and teaching staff.
Opportunity Partners provides services to people with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Based on their success in providing high quality arts experiences, we want to provide Upstream Arts workshops for our clients.
Wilder Foundation will enable 267 low-income youth and elders to participate in the arts by providing tickets to performances, transportation, and a drum residency.
Boys and Girls Club will partner with Paramount Visual Arts Center to deepen and expand arts programming at its three units, by assigning local artists to provide fine arts programming.
Day One and the Pangea World Theater will create arts-based advocacy tools, to be presented with a performance of Breaking the Silence, at a statewide meeting of domestic violence professionals.
The Good Vibrations Project will bring musical artists to the senior living community and will focus on relationships, social connections, and a positive musical experience. Music creates an environment for increased quality of life and satisfaction with life.
Up to 30 adults with Down syndrome will use puppetry, music, and performance to learn techniques for coping with stress through the Monkey Mind Pirates program, created by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz.
YouthLink will partner with Kulture Klub Collaborative to create a symposium, print document, and Web site, discussing the cultural production of homelessness.
Artist-led activities will foster creative expression, teamwork, inter-cultural understanding, and a sense of accomplishment for low-income children/youth living in low-income residential properties.
In a 3-day retreat, Hmong women and girls will write their stories, experience different writing and storytelling styles, create writing projects, and network with established Hmong women writers.
Ivanhoe Public Library will bring the Prairie Players Theater to our city to spend a week teaching theater skills to kids 8 and up. At the end of the week they will put on a public performance.
Knute Nelson residents have limited access to quality art experiences and grant funding will provide artistic concerts and shows thus increasing their participation in and appreciation for the arts.
Mother of Mercy Campus of Care's project provides an opportunity for senior citizens with health issues, and for low income senior citizens without major health issues, to attend professional musical performances.
The Family Center, in partnership with Screen Porch Productions, will implement a year-round performing arts program that provides opportunities for broader and deeper community arts participation.
This one week project is designed for 60 emotionally disturbed students and will increase their exposure to dance, introduce them to a new form of communication, and provide them with a team experience.
Our Neighborhood Works is partnering with Z Puppets Rosenschnoz for Monkey Mind Pirates, an arts camp for children combining puppetry, songwriting, and yoga. The project culminates in public performances.
To bring inner-city youth and their families to a variety of arts experiences they would otherwise not be able to access to due cost and transportation
