Funding to produce and stage Jean Genet’s, The Balcony. Performance will be held at the organization’s new space in northeast Minneapolis in February 2011.
Northern Clay Center proposes a series of partnerships with community organizations that serve individuals 55 years of age and older, which would provide ongoing clay instruction, lifelong learning in the arts, and opportunities for multi-generational collaboration to place-bound and somewhat mobile populations.
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2010: Four coffee concerts at the Nicollet Island Pavilion, with listeners bused in from Twin Cities' senior activity centers; and a neighborhood concert in Elliot Park.
To present the first annual Off-Leash Area Neighborhood Garage Tour of "A Gift for Planet BX63," a remount of its 2007 garage production, for a tour of sixteen performances in eight neighborhoods over two months, reaching an estimated 600 people.
Mu Performing Arts requests $30,000 to hire a community development liaison, who will oversee our Stories program, a theater education initiative for underserved Asian American youth to articulate their lives and address their needs through the performing arts.
The Twin Cities Elder Choir mobilizes and celebrates the voices of Minnesota's seniors, engaging new audiences and building understanding through performances by an artistically ambitious, 50-voice chorus organized in collaboration with the MacPhail Center and residential care facilities across the Twin Cities.
Arts Midwest World Fest is a performing arts touring program that addresses the lack of cross-cultural experiences and arts education in underserved communities by bringing international performing artists to small- and mid-sized communities across the nine-state upper Midwest region to conduct intensive week-long residencies.
The James Sewell Ballet will present dance works from their repertory along with a work presented by students from the Sheldon School of the Performing Arts at The Sheldon Theatre on May 21, 2011, culminating an eleven-month educational and community building process.
The Neighborhood Video Project offers access to the media arts for middle school-aged youth who cannot participate in the arts because of transportation and financial barriers, in order to empower them to share their diverse cultural heritages with the community.
The 2010/2011 Wildwood Artist Series features the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir, folk-singer John McCutcheon with Patty McCutcheon providing sign language, and Celtic chanteusse Katie McMahon with Karen Mueller, Zack Kline, Mark Anderson, Jenny Russ, and the Corda Mor Irish Dancers.
Through new and expanded partnerships with three Saint Paul Public School District schools in targeted communities, we will increase accessibility to high-quality music education and performance opportunities for disadvantaged youth, families, and neighborhoods in the east metro of the Twin Cities.
The proposed project would test our capacity to reach more widely into underserved Twin Cities communities with a greater number of mini-concerts and workshops for seniors, people with developmental disabilities, low-income families, at-risk youth, etc.
Illusion Theater is requesting funds for a two-year project. We will tour both My Antonia and Autistic License both years and will include community workshops and discussion components. We will bring together a broad mix of people in each community.
