Our community theatre will present its 20th summer production with the 6th show in the Nunsense series - a musical comedy from those wacky, well-loved nuns as they present a Las Vegas style show. This will be GNTC's 4th Nunsense production. Our previous 3
Great River Chorale (Mary Kay Geston, director) will present a spring choral concert entitled "Where Music Dwells" on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at St. Augustine's Catholic Church in St. Cloud, Minnesota to celebrate their Tenth Anniversary season. Approxim
GREAT Theatre requests a project grant in the amount of $6,000 to produce and perform the hit Broadway musical The Wiz! utilizing a culturally and racially diverse cast of community actors. "The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a mus
GREAT Theatre produced and performed the classic musical OLIVER! as part of our Broadway Musical Season at the Paramount Theatre. We served as many as 4,900 individuals by creating a high quality and enjoyable community theatre production. OLIVER! had par
The City of Hanover would like to create its VERY FIRST public art project. We are a small rural city on the western fringes of the metropolitan area located within Wright County. The population in 2010 is 2,938 residents. The City recently initiated deve
A choral concert presented by Minnesota Center Chorale at the Church of Saint Augustine, Saint Cloud on May 8, 2011 with both secular contemporary and sacred classical music.
Minnesota Center Chorale, in collaboration with the Saint Cloud Municipal Band, will present "From Sea to Shining Sea" on Sunday, March 6, 2011 at the Calvary Community Church and Event Center in Saint Cloud. The concert's title is drawn from the closing
Minnesota Dance Ensemble will create and produce innovative choreographic works for an evening of dance performance at the Paramount Theater in Saint Cloud on March 11th, 2011. "I Want My MTV" will include new and re-envisioned repertory works by MInnesot
Last summer the Paramount introduced a new series devoted to showcasing talent that exists either right in our own community or has grown out of it. It was called the Local Roots Series and it was a great success. We are doing this series again, this time
The Paramount Theater, with this project, is offering three "firsts" to the public. We are 1) working with St. Mary's Cathedral, our neighbor one block away, to bring a unique concert to the community, 2) we are incorporating the Local Roots Series forma
The Paramount will provide a series of six themed exhibitions scheduled January -December 2011. A call for art will be advertised for artists residing in the state of Minnesota to respond to six specific themes: 1. The Nature of Color 2. Adornment 3. Rive
The 2011 Sizzling Summer Art Crawl will expand the successful downtown St. Cloud Art Crawls into the summer for the second year, engaging adults and children in the arts. This year’s festival will begin on Friday afternoon, August 19, as primarily an adul
Pioneer Place Theatre Company will be hiring 8 professional actors and producing the longest-running show in Broadway history - "The Fantasticks". The show will have 12 performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 and Sunday matinees at 2:
St. Cloud Municipal Band performed five traditional holiday concerts for intergenerational audiences. Concerts were held at the St. Benedict's Center, Whitney Senior Center, Albany Nursing Home and Foley Nursing Home providing live music to seniors, their
This proposal requests $6,000 to help to fund an honorarium that can bring Mr. Tony Wharmby, one of the leading producer/directors of television drama in American and Britain, to St Cloud State University for a two-day public educational lyceum in Septemb
The Cantabile Girls' Choir was invited to perform at the National OAKE convention on March 18, 2011. To create an in-depth experience for the girls, the OAKE performance was flanked with additional tour performances in surrounding locations. On Friday aft
The purpose of "Classics for Kids" is to bring classical music to students. The orchestra took chamber ensembles into every fourth-grade classroom in the thirteen elementary public schools of District 742, 747, and 748. The performances by the brass, wood
The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra will present a classical music performance Introduction to the Orchestra Concert on September 14, 2011, at 6:30 pm in Ritsche Auditorium on the campus of St. Cloud State University.
Many people remember Leonard Bernstein
The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra will present a classical music performance Pictures at Pictures on May 14, 2011, at 7:30 pm in Ritsche Auditorium on the campus of St. Cloud State University. This program is very special for several reasons including: Thi
Summary of Proposal: On Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17, Fine Arts Programming at SJU will present two public performances of 500 Clown in the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater. In the two days prior to the public shows, FAP will host four works
To Provide 10 different Concerts in the Sinclair Lewis Band Shell in Sauk Centre on Wednesday evenings beginning 6/15/2011 and ending 8/17/2011. One of the concerts is especially geared to young children Ages 3-8 years of age. The other concerts are set t
In my art classroom, I read "Beads on One String" to all classes in an effort to build our school community. Along with the story, every student and adult in the building decorated a wooden bead and they are now all on display in our building as a remind
We are requesting $4,000 in support of Music Man, our fifth annual large-scale musical production. The grant would help underwrite free youth admission to the performances.
Visual Arts Minnesota will host a 3-day workshop at the Paramount’s Visual Art Center August 5-7, 2011, for artists to learn more about art exhibition and presentation from some of Minnesota’s most notable arts institutions, galleries and organizations. T
Visual Arts Minnesota will host a 40x40’ space at the Women’s Showcase on October 1, 2011, featuring 25 women artists within a staged arrangement, curated by interior designer, Katie Ballantine. There will be 2 preliminary meetings for the artists to lear
The Visual Arts Minnesota's 31st Annual High School Art Competition and Exhibition is a juried competition of 2D and 3D artwork submitted by high school students in grades 9 through 12. This annual exhibit is presented within the Paramount Theatre Lobby G
Visual Arts Minnesota’s "Art ala Carte" is a juried art competition and exhibition, which is held every year in June. This year will mark the 11th anniversary of the event. It is open to all 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional artists who live in Minnesota. T
The proposed project will provide two high quality music performances, accessed through the Chamber Music Society, to bring musical exposure to persons age 55 or older. The Miro Quartet performs on string instruments and has won numerous chamber music awa
Dancing with Many Voices is a project celebrating the diversity of cultural and artistic perspectives among Central Minnesota’s dance artists. Presented by Wicked Sister Dance Theatre at Pioneer Place Theatre in St Cloud Nov 11-13, this unprecedented perf
To analyze the structure and materials of St. Cornelia's Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, preparatory to further preservation projects
Audubon Minnesota and Minnesota Land Trust are requesting funds to protect 560 acres through conservation easement and to enhance 500 acres of significant wildlife habitat on protected private and public lands. Our project and parcel prioritization criteria places an emphasis on Important Bird Areas and priority areas identified in the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan, prioritizing the 6 northwestern Minnesota counties associated with the Tallgrass Aspen Parklands region.
Urban stormwaters contain biologically harmful contaminants of emerging concern whose abatement through best management practice ponds requires evaluation to safeguard habitats for aquatic species from mussels to birds.
A partnership among the City of Baxter, Brainerd Public Schools, Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape program and The Conservation Fund will acquire 200 acres of riparian forest on the upper Mississippi River Headwaters.
This project will complete 18 permanent conservation easements, 30 forest management plans, and 20 best management practices (BMP) around Aitkin and Crow Wing Counties highest quality lakes.
Resort owners and recreational enthusiasts rely on Bostic and Zippel Bays to provide them with protected access to Lake of the Woods. Without these bays, access to the large lake would be very limited. Tourism, specifically water recreation, is a mainstay of the local economy. Complaints of limited navigability within the bays and reports of annual dredging made these watersheds the priority concern in the Local Water Management Plan.
Del Clark Lake is a regionally unique resource in the Lac qui Parle Watershed. This grant contains both restoration and protection strategies aiming to maintain the quality of this rare and valuable resource in addition to restoring the recently impaired Canby Creek, which feeds into Del Clark Lake. Three grade control structures will be implemented just upstream of Del Clark to protect against sediment and aid in regulating flows. An estimate 240 pounds of phosphorous and 2,700 tons of sediment will be reduced annually.
