The Partners for Clean Water program will enable community groups to take action to improve their water resources. Engaging citizens directly in project development and installation efforts provides immediate water quality benefits and develops a community of active stewardship. Installation of projects previously developed by Douglas County community groups will shift the currently dormant water quality protection efforts.
Chinese Social Service Center will collaborate with Pan Asian Arts Alliance and local Asian service agencies, to offer the acrobatic performance, Fenmo to Asian seniors in order to break away the isolation and increase access to arts.
Free Arts for Abused Children's YES To Art program involves local artists creating short, themed projects with abused and at-risk, homeless youth. The program offers young people opportunities to build new skills in theater and to publicly perform their work.
INSTEP will bring Children's Theatre Company's storytelling and critical-thinking early childhood program, Early Bridges, to our classroom, for 30 sessions with children and teaching staff.
The SWAY (Seniors Weaving Arts with Youth), a community dance/theatre program is a collaborative between artist (Kairos Dance Theatre) and social service entity (NORC: Home for a Lifetime!). The program blends art, elders and youth in an intergenerational dance/theater series over 4-6 weeks culminating in a community celebratory performance.
The Healing Through the Arts Initiative will inspire creative methods of coping with illness by removing barriers and increasing opportunities for people with cancer to participate in the arts by attending events at A Center for the Arts, by bringing artists from A Center for the Arts to the Lake Region Healthcare Cancer Care and Research Center, and by developing arts activities that patients can participate in while receiving chemotherapy treatment.
The Lakes Crisis and Resource Center of Becker County is requesting funding to make the arts more accessible to women and children who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Opportunity Partners provides services to people with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Based on their success in providing high quality arts experiences, we want to provide Upstream Arts workshops for our clients.
Southeast Asian Community Council's Art Adventures engages and increases access to the rich art and cultural vibrancy of the Twin Cities for underprivileged Hmong youths through art classes taught by local Hmong artists and field trips to local art organizations.
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.
