Northern Clay Center proposes a series of partnerships with community organizations that serve individuals 55 years of age and older, which would provide ongoing clay instruction, lifelong learning in the arts, and opportunities for multi-generational collaboration to place-bound and somewhat mobile populations.
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2010: Four coffee concerts at the Nicollet Island Pavilion, with listeners bused in from Twin Cities' senior activity centers; and a neighborhood concert in Elliot Park.
To present the first annual Off-Leash Area Neighborhood Garage Tour of "A Gift for Planet BX63," a remount of its 2007 garage production, for a tour of sixteen performances in eight neighborhoods over two months, reaching an estimated 600 people.
TU Dance proposes to launch an access initiative reaching out to people of color to engage new (first-time) audiences, with presentations by the artistic directors to target groups throughout the Twin Cities supported by efforts that address specific participation barriers.
Mu Performing Arts requests $30,000 to hire a community development liaison, who will oversee our Stories program, a theater education initiative for underserved Asian American youth to articulate their lives and address their needs through the performing arts.
Songs of Hope youth performers from Madagascar, Uganda, Israel, Turkey, Italy, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Jamaica, China, and USA will present concerts for diverse audiences in Lake City, Wabasha, Winona, Lanesboro, and Austin, with music by an ensemble of professional musicians.
The Twin Cities Elder Choir mobilizes and celebrates the voices of Minnesota's seniors, engaging new audiences and building understanding through performances by an artistically ambitious, 50-voice chorus organized in collaboration with the MacPhail Center and residential care facilities across the Twin Cities.
Arts Midwest World Fest is a performing arts touring program that addresses the lack of cross-cultural experiences and arts education in underserved communities by bringing international performing artists to small- and mid-sized communities across the nine-state upper Midwest region to conduct intensive week-long residencies.
VSA arts of Minnesota staff will conduct audience development work in five greater Minnesota communities to increase participation at arts performances by people who are deaf/hard of hearing or blind/low vision.
The James Sewell Ballet will present dance works from their repertory along with a work presented by students from the Sheldon School of the Performing Arts at The Sheldon Theatre on May 21, 2011, culminating an eleven-month educational and community building process.
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, St. Cloud, and Duluth in November of 2011 with multiple-day residencies in each community, engaging students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
VocalEssence will expand !Cantar! - a community engagement program that engages diverse communities in the discovery, celebration, and creation of music inspired by Mexican traditions to Worthington, Minnesota, a community with a growing Mexican immigrant population, for a two-year residency program.
The Neighborhood Video Project offers access to the media arts for middle school-aged youth who cannot participate in the arts because of transportation and financial barriers, in order to empower them to share their diverse cultural heritages with the community.
The 2010/2011 Wildwood Artist Series features the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir, folk-singer John McCutcheon with Patty McCutcheon providing sign language, and Celtic chanteusse Katie McMahon with Karen Mueller, Zack Kline, Mark Anderson, Jenny Russ, and the Corda Mor Irish Dancers.
Through new and expanded partnerships with three Saint Paul Public School District schools in targeted communities, we will increase accessibility to high-quality music education and performance opportunities for disadvantaged youth, families, and neighborhoods in the east metro of the Twin Cities.
TU Dance will tour to two greater Minnesota communities (Bigfork and Fergus Falls), presenting public performances and collaborating with each partner to conduct master classes, reach underserved populations, and engage the largest and broadest possible audiences.
IFP Minnesota seeks funding to launch Polar Producers, a new city-wide after-school media arts program for high school students housed at IFP, Minnesota's center for media arts.
To support outreach efforts to the youth of North Minneapolis who are underserved and underrepresented and provide access to arts education and performance opportunities by eliminating perceived or real barriers to the arts.
The proposed project would test our capacity to reach more widely into underserved Twin Cities communities with a greater number of mini-concerts and workshops for seniors, people with developmental disabilities, low-income families, at-risk youth, etc.
Ragamala will present three public performances and more than three weeks of residency activities in Princeton, Northfield, and Rochester, bringing professional dance performances and learning activities to underserved areas and educating new audiences about the arts/culture of India.
Illusion Theater is requesting funds for a two-year project. We will tour both My Antonia and Autistic License both years and will include community workshops and discussion components. We will bring together a broad mix of people in each community.
