To provide financial assistance to schools nonprofit organizations and units of government to expose students of all ages to a unique arts experience that ties in to a lesson plan curriculum or a process that builds community.
To provide support for activities directly involved in the creation performance publication or exhibition of art or to host arts events by contracting for the services of another organization or individual to provide arts programming to the applicant orga
To provide support for activities directly involved in the creation performance publication or exhibition of art or to host arts events by contracting for the services of another organization or individual to provide arts programming to the applicant orga
To provide support for activities directly involved in the creation performance publication or exhibition of art or to host arts events by contracting for the services of another organization or individual to provide arts programming to the applicant orga
Funding to enable students in grades 5 to 8 from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on all aspects of a live choral show production during two-week, three-week, and five-week camps in June and July of 2011.
Funding for a Community Read of Willa Cather’s My Antonia March 6-9 in preparation for Illusion Theater’s performance of the play on March 13 at New Prague High School.
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.
Michael Olson will present his new composition, "Noopiming" in four northern Minnesota communities, and also deliver a lecture/demonstration of his new and somewhat unconventional compositional method. "Noopiming" is an Ojibwe word which translates as "in the North, inland, in the woods.
