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.
Children's Arts and Healing Project is a collaborative project designed to broaden opportunities for patients, children, and families who visit our hospitals, to participate in the arts.
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.
Lyngblomsten to provide a year of arts events workshops for older adults and intergenerational community members designed to enhances lives, ignite creativity, and drive passion toward living full, whole lives. Workshops in visual arts, writing, vocal music, and storytelling will happen on site as well as provide funds for off-site transportation to arts events.
Artful Living at Lyngblomsten: Arts for Every Season of Life, brings fine arts events, workshops by resident artists, and celebrations of creativity for Lyngblomsten older adults and community members. Through this request, they are introducing two new seasons of art to complete 2011 and continuing two art partnerships from previous seasons.
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.
Mother of Mercy Campus of Care will run two, 6-week sessions of hands on art work in water color and clay. We will bring in local artist/teachers and have our residents and tenants actively work with watercolor for six weeks, then clay for six weeks to create their own personal art.
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.
The Otter Tail-Wadena Community Action Council will partner with the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center to bring 200 underserved adults into participation in the arts in Wadena and Otter Tail Counties of Minnesota.
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.
Musical theater collaboration with Sounds of Hope, Ltd. 233 adults with developmental disabilities will use theater, music, and dance to bridge differences and broaden arts participation. Transportation to rehearsal space at MacPhail Center for Music will introduce clients to a new arts resource.
Phoenix Alternatives's Job Enactment Program utilizes Upstream Arts a theater group providing instructional coaching in career and job development scenarios to help secure community jobs for clients with disabilities.
Project SUCCESS will collaborate with the Guthrie Theater to organize four different field trips featuring three different productions for students at Washburn and South High Schools in Minneapolis.
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
Art Adventures is a summer arts initiative to engage and increase access to the arts for low-income, underprivileged Hmong youths through working with artists and visiting local arts organizations and events.
A writing group and an art group Expression for Wellness and Effectiveness will each meet twice monthly, for nine months, to prepare, share, and critique participants' work. It will be advertised in the Powderhorn and Phillips neighborhoods. A chapbook (32 pages) and a gallery exhibition of at least twelve works will be presented in L'Orange Gallery.
YouthLink requests support for an Art Garden initiative, programmed by Kulture Klub Collaborative, designed to connect homeless youth and artists in an exploration of sustainability and community.
Four visual arts workshops programmed by Kulture Klub Collaborative and led by working artists that are designed to provide homeless young women with immersive, participatory arts experiences in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography, and creative writing.
The YWCA will engage at risk youth and immigrant families in arts events and activities, including performances and artist workshops, to reduce barriers and increase understanding and involvement in the arts.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation will stage a series of 24 interactive arts events, working with COMPAS to identify visual, music, and written word artists who will address the needs of the diverse populations we serve.
