The ScrapMobile, a portable art car (van) and art program of ArtStart's ArtScraps Materials Reuse Center, seeks funding to provide free summer arts programming instructed by ArtStart roster artists in parks, housing developments, and recreation centers for underserved youth/families in collaboration with Saint Paul Park and Recreation's Roving Rec program and the St Paul Public Library Bookmobile.
In a new School-Community Access Project, SteppingStone Theatre will address barriers to participation and offer additional community-specific events for families in underserved communities.
Through Peking Opera/Chinese Acrobat, the Project connects under-served Asian American community with theatrical experience, and connects the younger generation with the century old art form.
James Sewell Ballet requests funds to create and tour Dance N' America, an accessible, engaging, and thought provoking performance designed to cultivate new dance opportunities in communities that we visit in greater Minnesota.
The Ten Minute Play Festival will bring together community participants and professional artists to produce original short work providing access to the creative process, and developing new audiences.
Through the Cross-Connections Project Teatro del Pueblo will develop strategic relationships with artistic and community organizations to better reach recent Latino immigrants in the Twin Cities.
Caponi Art Park will increase access to the arts for underserved youth in Dakota County through a new outreach program of tours, activities and performances.
Huge Improv Theater will have T. J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi from Chicago, Illinois, tour their nationally recognized improv show to HUGE Theater in Minneapolis.
In partnership with over 50 businesses and organizations, The Cedar will engage East African immigrants with a comprehensive arts program titled Cedar Avenue to Art that uses music events as the focal point and also serves the general public
The Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud will present of series of six concerts by visiting professional ensembles, along with a variety of community outreach activities.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Children's Theatre Company will launch Community Superheroes, a project to engage Latino audiences through partnerships with organizations serving Latinos; free tickets and transportation for children and families to two CTC productions; and pre-performance workshops and post-play reflections.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Textile Center will increase access to its exhibition and education programs through a new outreach service for schools and community-based organization serving low-income youth. Partners receive a transportation stipend and youth participate in a gallery program and hands-on art activity.
Tweed will engage Native audiences by 1)presenting museum collections and resources; 2)seeking input; and 3)documenting artists and resources to engage for programming.
The Backus Community Center will collaborate with the teaching artist members of the Emmy-winning Tonic Sol-fa to provide eleven days and 88 hours of vocal instruction and performance in ten underserved communities throughout Minnesota.
CLIMB writes/performs six short one-acts outdoors at 28 rural community events; townspeople attending Intergenerational Dialogues choose the plays' topics, discuss theater, and learn our process.
The College of Saint Benedict will present a free outdoor concert series, Sunset Stages at Saint Benedict’s, designed to specifically engage the Saint Joseph community and featuring Minnesota artists.
COMPAS and Sibley Bike Depot will create jobs within ArtsWork, an arts-based, employment program, for youth to learn bike repair and work with artist Jan Elftmann to turn them into works of art.
Elementary students of the Dawson-Boyd School District will experience multi-curricular learning by creating with five roster artists in the areas of music, storytelling, theater, poetry, mosaics, and interdisciplinary art through school residencies and community activities.
The Historic Holmes Theatre is partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes to provide free access to concerts/arts events and a free summer theatre camp for low income children/adults.
The Duluth Art Institute will host internationally recognized artist Wing Young Huie to present two community workshops in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth to engage audiences with issues of identity and diversity through the use of portrait photography.
The Duluth Festival Opera plans to tour a fully staged production of a new opera, "Pocahontas," composed by Minnesotan Linda Tutas Haugen in 2007, which features the music of Native Minnesota Ojibwe musicians.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation, Carlton MN; and the city of Two Harbors.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside of Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation at Otter Creek Event Center, Carlton and Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids.
Students and community engage in a sustained art-making project exploring the significance of place and culminating in the creation of a mosaic mural that transforms the entrance of our school into a more welcoming environment affirming our diverse community.
Zenon seeks to create and implement an audience development plan targeting the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community, a group that traditionally lacks access to dance as an art form.
A Center for the Arts continues their tour across Minnesota with one program from last year―Ann Reed's Heroes, and two new tour programs―Songs from the Tall Grass, which we produced in 2007 and Chamber Music.
The Circle of Life is a two-year project involving all facets of the community in lifelong learning through music, theater, movement, and puppetry, working with Ghaian dancer/drummer Francis Kofi, and artists Esther Ouray and Julie Kastigar.
Flying Foot Forum will tour “The Percussion Project” to ten Minnesota communities. It will expand its touring in Minnesota, conduct workshops, and bring quality arts to youth and adults.
Minneapolis based FOOLS PRODUCTIONS proposes a tour of its newest show, THE VAUDEVILLIAN / Spirit of the American Dream to historic theaters and modern performing arts centers across greater Minnesota.
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
The Minnesota Sinfonia performs a family program in Saint Cloud’s Paramount Theatre and a children’s concert at Camp Courage, both being offered with free admission.
Working with local professional teaching artists, Overtures will feature north Minneapolis children as the starring attraction for 2 Minnesota Sinfonia performances to occur in North Minneapolis.
Grand Symphonic Winds will collaborate with the Mesabi Community Band to bring its contemporary, international repertoire and performance practices to the Iron Range through a performance and arts learning activities.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater artists, assisted by teaching artist/writer Florence Dacey, will lead Granite Falls Manor residents in creating memory masks based on their life stories.
Peace O' Ground, a year-long integrated arts initiative, will provide children, families, and neighbors of Duluth's Hillside multiple opportunities to experience and participate in deepening understanding of their neighborhood through the literary, visual, and performing arts.
The Theatre 4 All Initiative will eliminate barriers to ensure access to quality live theater for 1,000 disadvantaged youth in St. Cloud's inner-city schools.
Moving Matters is a dance and moving arts project that will bring quality dance experience to adults with mental illness and mental health workers. The project will be used as a healing art that will enhance recovery and stimulate healthy partnerships between workers and clients, as well as be a new medium to raise community awareness about mental illness.
