Funding to present the world premier of Amass, a composition by Composer-in-Residence and McKnight Fellow Jocelyn Hagen. The performance will take place at First Lutheran Church in Columbia Heights in February 2011.
Funding to produce and stage the satire, Mrs. Smith Presents… A Benefit for the Carlyle Foundation Empowerment School for People and Cats with Severe and Persistent Challenges. Performances will be held at the Southern Theater in January 2011.
Funding for the fourth annual Summer Opera Festival featuring four performances of two American musical theatre works. The festival will take place at E. M. Pearson Theatre at Concordia University in June 2011.
Funding for a project with senior residents at Sholom Homes assisted living facility in St. Paul to rehearse and perform a play in the “story theatre” format. After a four-month rehearsal period beginning in August 2011, the project will culminate in two
Funding for Songs of Hope 2010, an international concert project featuring youth between 10- and 16-years-old from countries around the world along with youth from the Twin Cities. Thirty or more concerts will be held throughout the metro area in July 201
Funding for a two-concert series of Handel’s Messiah to be performed in Chaska, Savage, and Lakeville in December 2010 and In the Presence of Angels to be performed at churches around the south metro in April 2011.
Funding for a 2-week arts and sign language immersion program for Deaf people and sign language interpreters, to create a bilingual play based on participants’ experiences. The project will run from August 1 through 12 at Frey Theater at St. Catherine Un
Funding for Train at 206 Summer Intensive, a physical theatre training intensive that will run from June 13 to July 1, 2011 at 206 in the Ivy Building for the Arts in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Funding to produce and stage Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake), by Sheila Callaghan. Performances will take place in March 2011 at the Cedar Riverside People’s Center in Minneapolis.
Funding for the 10th Annual Political Theater Festival, featuring six to seven short plays by and about Latinos. The festival will be presented at Gremlin Theatre in February and March 2011.
Funding for six one-day theater skills workshop designed to reach teens. Workshops will take place at the Lowry Lab in St. Paul between January and May 2011.
Funding to stage and produce Jon Klein’s T Bone N Weasel, and William Mastrosimone’s Cat’s Paw. Performances will take place at Gremlin Theater in September 2011 and March 2012, respectively.
Funding for twelve concerts in the Thursday Morning Artist Series featuring solo artists every other Thursday from October 2010 through April 2011 at the Schneider Theater in the Bloomington Center for the Arts.
Funding for BODY OF LIGHT, a 75-minute work of original choreography featuring movement, media, and music. Performances will take place at the Southern Theater in September and October 2011.
Funding for a collaboration with the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists to work with 15-20 of the arts high school’s students in all four grades to rehearse for and participate in TU Dance’s debut performances at the Ordway Center in May 2011.
Funding for a film production project for teenage girls that explores diverse perspectives of love. Fifteen girls will work with five adult artist mentors over six months beginning in May 2011.
Funding to present The Nutcracker, an original full-length production by Denise Vogt. Performances will take place at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center in December 2011.
To "create, perform and respond" an original theater piece including: acting, writing, music, visual arts, dance on the concept "true heroism;" the piece will incorporate core curriculum areas of arts, social studies, English, computer science, carpentry, and online education
Funding for the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival, an annual event presenting feature films, documentaries, and shorts from around the world on themes of Jewish culture and identity. The festival will take place at Sabes Jewish Community Center in April 20
Mu Performing Arts will produce Mu Daiko with Hanayui in its first official taiko tour, bringing Mu's distinct Midwest expression of taiko alongside the best from Japan to greater Minnesota audiences.
Mixed Precipitation will present fourteen free site-specific performances, in a new forms picnic operettas a hybrid opera accompanied by a five-course menu, created for outdoor performance in community garden spaces in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Professional theater artists will work for and with the West Side neighborhood of St. Paul to create a community-engaged theater production in which community stories inspire the script and score, and professional and community actors share the stage.
Given Minnesota students choose the arts and science as electives instead of having them as core curriculum, the purpose of this grant is to engage and enrich the lives of lifelong learners through effectively integrating the arts and sciences in our program.
To make theater accessible to the non-English speaking Hmong community, we will mount the play "Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman"in Hmong and nurture the talents of nontraditional Hmong actors.
To increase and diversify participation by new immigrant and communities of color in the outreach programs of Speaking of Home-St. Paul, a major public art project in the skyways of downtown St. Paul.
Koom Siab United Hearts--a year-round Pan-Asian dance learning project--provides diverse Asian dance classes to disadvantaged Asian American youth to acquire knowledge/skills, and participate at Koom Siab Pan Asian dance performance.
