Sumunar will provide residencies (two years) in Indonesian gamelan music and dance, taught by artist/teachers, collaborating with Main Street Performing Art School, Hopkins, Prairie Seed Academy, Brooklyn Park, Oak Hill Elementary, St. Cloud, and Normandale French Immersion School, Edina.
Sumunar and Marion W. Savage Elementary School will collaborate in a two-week residency in Indonesian gamelan music making, with intensive daily instruction for special education classes, introductory sessions for general classrooms, and a concluding performance for parents and the public.
Dis/Cover the Arts expands our capacity to grow audiences of people with disabilities by removing barriers, better fulfilling our mission to create art that challenges perceptions of disability.
The Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project will provide a two-year series of six performance art residencies for 124 students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.
The Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project will provide a two-year series of six performance art residencies for 124 students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.
The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project will present a touring version of its recent Art of Conflict visual art exhibition and, The Unreturned, a film, to six communities in greater Minnesota.
Schoolwide theater residency with artist Perrin Boyd, culmiting in the public performance of student created works at our community Peace Day and International Peace Site Rededication celebration.
To expand Juxtaposition Arts' Visual Arts Literacy Training and Free Wall Aerosol Art series, which are comprehensive introductory visual art and environmental design programs where 75 core youth will work with experienced artist teachers to create, interpret, and exhibit drawings, painting, and murals in North Minneapolis.
The Dancing Heart Lifelong Learning Through the Arts program will bring Kairos' successful, evidence-based dance and storytelling learning program to older adults who are interested in participating in a high-quality arts program that will help maintain and improve their health.
The Dancing Heart Lifelong Learning Through the Arts program will bring Kairos' successful, evidence-based dance and storytelling learning program to older adults who are interested in participating in a high-quality arts program that will help maintain and improve their health.
Great Tap for an Even Greater Minnesota will travel to greater Minnesota providing free tap dance education and low cost performance to communities underserved regarding arts performance/educational opportunities, fitting into its mission to "expand the boundaries of American tap dance."
Kulture Klub Collaborative will work with teaching artist Marcus Young to develop artwork with a community of young people experiencing homelessness, reflecting on the relationship between inner lives and public space.
Kulture Klub Collaborative will develop and empower a Youth Advisory Council to build several new initiatives, broadening and deepening artistic engagement for young people experiencing homelessness.
In summer/fall 2010, Kulture Klub Collaborative will bring Brooklyn-based multi-media artist Oliver Herring and Minnesota film/video artist Brennan Vance together with Twin Cities' youth experiencing homelessness through an intensive workshop of digital video, autobiographical and screenwriting, and public art intervention.
LPT' project will 1) perform shows in senior facilities, 2) perform a children' show in a family transitional housing facility and 3) bring those families to attend shows at our theater.
Bounxou Chanthraphpone, experienced Lao weaver, brings hands-on classes to seniors and youth, teaching the technical aspects of weaving, the artistry of design, and the cultural context of Lao weaves and designs. Exhibits/demonstrations will share this learning with hundreds of Minnesotans.
Leonardo' Basement will direct a planning process with community organizations in an economically disadvantaged community to develop an interactive sculpture park located in a Saint Paul park.
Linwood Monroe Arts Plus proposes to engage nine artists to present high quality residencies for all students and professional development for arts specialists. Detailed planning, arts integration, and response protocols are key elements of the plan.
This project increases access to high quality arts residencies for all Linwood/Monroe K-8 students, supports staff, and artists in developing new skills in planning arts integration residencies, and embeds collaborative response protocols into more areas of our work with students.
The Loft will extend its reach to writers–and those in the making— who lack access to its Twin Cities-based creative writing education services by creating online learning opportunities and a vital online literary learning community.
Lyra proposes to produce 5 baroque chamber concerts in a simultaneous but dual-concert format, one for adults and one for children, to remove the barriers that keep families from attending concerts.
Funding for “Digital Me,” a comprehensive after-school arts learning program for 5th to 8th grade students at Farnsworth Aerospace Elementary Magnet School and The Community School of Excellence. The twice-weekly course sessions will run from October 201
Funding to present a four concert series of Indian classical music. The series will include a fall festival of work by local artists and will begin in August 2010.
Funding for an Indonesian performing arts residency at Lake Country Montessori School in Minneapolis involving students in grades 4 to 6 in gamelan music, traditional dance, and shadow puppetry. The residency will occur in 2012.
Funding for an Art Camp during which students in grades 6 to 9 will be trained by professional artists in music, video, visual art, or theater and dance. The project is in partnership with Hope Academy in South Minneapolis and will take place for two week
Funding for a concert featuring New York-based trumpeter Marcus Printup performing with the Jazz is NOW!’s NOWnet members. The concert will take place at the Minnesota Opera Center in December 2010.
Funding for two concerts featuring the JazzMN Orchestra and special guests Mike Stern, and Sizzling T-bone Entree with Andy Martin. Concerts will be held in March and April 2011, at Hopkins High School’s Performing Arts Center.
Funding for New Symphonies, a 13-day summer festival of new music by composers ages 14 to 20. Festival activities will take place in July 2011 at the University of Minnesota.
Funding for Singing for a Lifetime, the 2011 – 2012 subscription season featuring six full concerts divided into three series. Concerts will take place between November 2011 and May 2012.
Funding for the Student Body of Sound program, a long-term instruction initiative followed by a peer-to-peer dance performance at North End Elementary School in St. Paul and The Burroughs’ Minneapolis Kids program, from late January 2011 through the end o
Funding for an arts learning opportunity for youth experiencing homelessness with puppet artist Bart Buch, who will conduct weekly puppet workshops at YouthLink in March and April, and culminating in performance during In the Heart of the Beast’s May Day
Funding for three theatrical productions in their 58th season. The Lion in Winter, Murder on the Nile and The Sound of Music will be produced and performed January through May 2011.
Funding for a six-month arts intensive training program, partnering Lao youth and emerging artists with an Oscar-nominated Lao director, award-winning writers, performers, and visual artists. Activities will take plan in North Minneapolis between July and
Funding for workshops, classes and performance for professional dance artists, choreographers and performers with artist and educator Julyen Hamilton at the Mississippi/Ebro Dance Festival from October 27 to November 13, 2011 in Minneapolis.
Funding to create and produce a world premier play based on Edward Gorey’s children’s book, Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus. Performances will take place during the Minnesota Fringe Festival at the Mill City Museum in August 2011.
Funding for the Music and Dance from Around the World program, a partnership between Lyndale Neighborhood Association and the Hosmer Library to present culturally diverse music and dance performances. Performances will take place at the Hosmer Library and
Funding for baroque instrument presentations at Capitol Hill Magnet, Ramsey Junior High, and Murray Junior High schools in February, March and April of 2011, and the presentation of a Young People’s Concert in collaboration with the Schubert Club at the L
