Funding for Art at Rice Creek, a free arts festival on the banks of Rice Creek and the Mississippi River in Anoka County. The daylong festival will feature visual, literary, and performance art experiences and will take place in September 2011.
Funding for Art Fete, a juried visual arts exhibition featuring a free opening reception and awards ceremony. The exhibition will be shown at the Burnsville Performing Art Center Gallery from March through April 2011.
Funding to stage and perform Winnie the Pooh with youth grades 2 to 8 from Cologne, Hamburg, Norwood Young America, and surrounding communities. The performances will take in Norwood Young America in June and July 2011.
Funding for a multi-media presentation of Mozart’s Requiem, featuring video, music examples and narration and culminating in a full performance with the Golden Valley Orchestra. Performances will take place at Golden Valley Lutheran Church and First Luthe
Funding for Evolutions in Concert 2011, a brass quintet performance featuring original compositions and arrangements of classical, popular, rock and jazz music. Performances will take place at Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church and the MacPhail Center for M
Funding for The Three Bonnies, an evening-length dance and multi-media performance based on the music of Bonnie Raitt. The performances will be presented at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center in August 2011.
Funding for three performances at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center: a concert featuring pianist Roberto Plano, a Baroque concert, and the fourth annual Young Artists Competition. Performances will take place between January and May 2011.
Funding for Bottineau Boogie! Untold Tales of Early Minnesota, featuring workshops culminating in a dance production about Pierre Bottineau, the French-Indian founding father of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Performances will take place in March 2011.
Funding for the sixth annual Orono International Festival celebrating the diversity and culture that exists within the six communities of the Orono School District. The festival will take place in October 2011.
Funding to produce and present showcases featuring local area musicians at the Eagles Club in St. Paul, the Acadia Café in Minneapolis, and other similar venues. The project will provide six to eight showcases per month during January through June 2011.
Funding for Art... Be A Part!, an arts program for all ages featuring weekly hands-on art activities at Dakota Woodlands Women’s Shelter, two art activity tents at the annual Eagan Art Festival, and smaller workshops for teens and intergenerational audien
Funding for Then and Now, a presentation honoring world cultures through ethnic dance and music. Performances will take place at the Ritz Theater in spring 2011.
Funding for two performances of the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach featuring 50 additional musicians to the chamber choir and orchestra. The concerts will take place at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Plymouth in March 2011.
Funding to produce its third season of plays by local playwrights. River of Passion: The Saga Continues and Medea and Jason: Rubicon Waltz will be staged in May and October 2011 respectively at Minneapolis’ Bryant-Lake Bowl.
