To give a live theater experience for the Holocaust literature and English 11 classes by taking them to the Park Square Theater in Saint Paul for a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Funding for Send in the Jazz, a collaborative dance piece featuring choreographers Karis Sloss and Zoe Sealy. Performances will take place at the Ritz Theater in July 2011.
Funding to produce and present Diabetes of Democracy, a multidisciplinary performance project that uses culturally-specific cuisine and storytelling to raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes. Performances will take place at Intermedia Arts in October 2011.
Funding for the 2011 Thanksgiving Celebration Pow-Wow, a three-day community event dedicated to preserving and celebrating Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk traditional dance and drumming. The event will be held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center during
Funding for the Pan-Asian Dance Learning Project, a yearlong training program for disadvantaged Asian American and Pacific Islander girls ages 9 to 18.
Funding for “The Masterwork Invitational,” an opportunity for students in four Twin Cities area high school choirs to study, prepare, and perform Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with local professional musicians as clinicians and concert soloists, in November 20
To provide arts and cultural heritage activities during fair by hosting a polka band on Seniors Day and sponsoring a children's tent with various arts and heritage related activities.
To enhance fairgoers access to the arts by adding a sound system to an existing stage area, adding display cases in the Heritage Building, and expanding art demonstrations.
Funding for Remembering with Dignity, a visual arts project involving artists with developmental disabilities and featuring studio sessions and field trips. The project will culminate in an exhibition at Newell Park in St. Paul in May 2012.
To build a mobile stage and purchase sound and lighting equipment, in order to increase the fair's ability to host arts and cultural heritage programming.
Funding for the African Roots Music, a 16-week residency for first and second grade students at Marcy Open School in southeast Minneapolis from February through May of 2011.
Funding to present a revised and more fully realized artistic production of How to Cheat, a comedy about morality. Performances will take place at the Southern Theater in November 2011.
