The Minnesota Music Coalition will produce and promote a statewide tour of performances and workshops featuring established and emerging musicians and bands working in fine arts presenting venues.
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.
20% Theatre Company seeks MSAB support to conduct two, day-long writing and performance workshops for local transgender and differently-gendered artists in June 2011.
Offering "Unsung Among Us" project - Music learning experience for North Minneapolis neighborhood at-risk youth: music training/twice-a-week, offering piano/guitar/drum classes at open music lab/youth creating songs, and re-mix of the Asian music classic to be broadcasted at RadioASIA.
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.
AchieveMpls, in partnership with MacPhail Center for Music, Children's Theatre Company, and Givens Foundation for African American Literature, will expand arts learning opportunities for 750 pre K-7 Minneapolis Public School students through programs that enhance the school curriculum and positively impact student learning.
Wilder Foundation will provide arts learning for elders and adults with disabilities living at Ravoux, a Saint Paul Public Housing hi-rise, and to elders with dementia in its memory loss program by collaborating with Kairos Dance Theatre and the Women's Drum Center.
Funding to produce and stage the regional premiere of Lisa Meyers’ The Birth of Venus. Performances will take place at the Cedar Riverside People’s Center in October 2011.
