In partnership with over 50 businesses and organizations, The Cedar will engage East African immigrants with a comprehensive arts program titled Cedar Avenue to Art that uses music events as the focal point and also serves the general public
The Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud will present of series of six concerts by visiting professional ensembles, along with a variety of community outreach activities.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Children's Theatre Company will launch Community Superheroes, a project to engage Latino audiences through partnerships with organizations serving Latinos; free tickets and transportation for children and families to two CTC productions; and pre-performance workshops and post-play reflections.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Textile Center will increase access to its exhibition and education programs through a new outreach service for schools and community-based organization serving low-income youth. Partners receive a transportation stipend and youth participate in a gallery program and hands-on art activity.
Tweed will engage Native audiences by 1)presenting museum collections and resources; 2)seeking input; and 3)documenting artists and resources to engage for programming.
The Backus Community Center will collaborate with the teaching artist members of the Emmy-winning Tonic Sol-fa to provide eleven days and 88 hours of vocal instruction and performance in ten underserved communities throughout Minnesota.
CLIMB writes/performs six short one-acts outdoors at 28 rural community events; townspeople attending Intergenerational Dialogues choose the plays' topics, discuss theater, and learn our process.
The College of Saint Benedict will present a free outdoor concert series, Sunset Stages at Saint Benedict’s, designed to specifically engage the Saint Joseph community and featuring Minnesota artists.
COMPAS and Sibley Bike Depot will create jobs within ArtsWork, an arts-based, employment program, for youth to learn bike repair and work with artist Jan Elftmann to turn them into works of art.
Elementary students of the Dawson-Boyd School District will experience multi-curricular learning by creating with five roster artists in the areas of music, storytelling, theater, poetry, mosaics, and interdisciplinary art through school residencies and community activities.
The Historic Holmes Theatre is partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes to provide free access to concerts/arts events and a free summer theatre camp for low income children/adults.
The Duluth Art Institute will host internationally recognized artist Wing Young Huie to present two community workshops in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth to engage audiences with issues of identity and diversity through the use of portrait photography.
The Duluth Festival Opera plans to tour a fully staged production of a new opera, "Pocahontas," composed by Minnesotan Linda Tutas Haugen in 2007, which features the music of Native Minnesota Ojibwe musicians.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation, Carlton MN; and the city of Two Harbors.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside of Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation at Otter Creek Event Center, Carlton and Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids.
Students and community engage in a sustained art-making project exploring the significance of place and culminating in the creation of a mosaic mural that transforms the entrance of our school into a more welcoming environment affirming our diverse community.
Zenon seeks to create and implement an audience development plan targeting the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community, a group that traditionally lacks access to dance as an art form.
A Center for the Arts continues their tour across Minnesota with one program from last year―Ann Reed's Heroes, and two new tour programs―Songs from the Tall Grass, which we produced in 2007 and Chamber Music.
The Circle of Life is a two-year project involving all facets of the community in lifelong learning through music, theater, movement, and puppetry, working with Ghaian dancer/drummer Francis Kofi, and artists Esther Ouray and Julie Kastigar.
Flying Foot Forum will tour “The Percussion Project” to ten Minnesota communities. It will expand its touring in Minnesota, conduct workshops, and bring quality arts to youth and adults.
Minneapolis based FOOLS PRODUCTIONS proposes a tour of its newest show, THE VAUDEVILLIAN / Spirit of the American Dream to historic theaters and modern performing arts centers across greater Minnesota.
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
The Minnesota Sinfonia performs a family program in Saint Cloud’s Paramount Theatre and a children’s concert at Camp Courage, both being offered with free admission.
Working with local professional teaching artists, Overtures will feature north Minneapolis children as the starring attraction for 2 Minnesota Sinfonia performances to occur in North Minneapolis.
Grand Symphonic Winds will collaborate with the Mesabi Community Band to bring its contemporary, international repertoire and performance practices to the Iron Range through a performance and arts learning activities.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater artists, assisted by teaching artist/writer Florence Dacey, will lead Granite Falls Manor residents in creating memory masks based on their life stories.
Peace O' Ground, a year-long integrated arts initiative, will provide children, families, and neighbors of Duluth's Hillside multiple opportunities to experience and participate in deepening understanding of their neighborhood through the literary, visual, and performing arts.
The Theatre 4 All Initiative will eliminate barriers to ensure access to quality live theater for 1,000 disadvantaged youth in St. Cloud's inner-city schools.
Moving Matters is a dance and moving arts project that will bring quality dance experience to adults with mental illness and mental health workers. The project will be used as a healing art that will enhance recovery and stimulate healthy partnerships between workers and clients, as well as be a new medium to raise community awareness about mental illness.
The Schools On Stage residency program uses Shakespearean texts to inspire creativity in teens, culminating in student created works that are performed on the Guthrie stage.
The Guthrie Theater will create $5 Previews, promoted through nonprofits, college job placement offices, and (re)employment agencies, to provide access for underemployed and emerging professionals aged 21-35.
The Second Tuesdays Project is a free, monthly event featuring artmaking and artist talks that will broaden public access to art experiences and engage new audiences.
Hillcrest Community School's project plans collaborative residencies for all students, grades pre-K to 5, to receive video instruction with artist Mike Hazard and jazz study with musicians Ruth MacKenzie and Joan Griffith, that will produce a completed video presentation showcasing their achievements in both artistic disciplines.
History Theatre is seeking funds to establish a new theater access program targeted toward schools and community programs in greater Minnesota in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society.
Hmong Arts Connection request funds to produce two issues of Paj Ntaub Voice, the premier literary Hmong magazine, and to launch our Hmong writers speaking and teaching series.
Illusion Theater requests a two-year grant to tour, My Antonia and Autistic License, to 10-12 Minnesota communities each year. Through this, Illusion will expand its touring in Minnesota, provide playwriting workshops, and bring quality arts experiences to youth and adults.
Illusion Theater will use a variety of innovative and enjoyable strategies to create free access for adults and families from Northside Minneapolis to attend Illusion productions.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre will tour, Are You Thirsty, a puppetry show about water stewardship, in partnership with nature centers and local government-sponsored community festivals.
