Funding for the 11th annual Twin Cities Book Festival, a free one-day public literary event featuring readings, panel discussions, book signings, writing workshops, book art demonstrations, storytelling, and other activities for all ages. The festival wil
Funding for Art Abilities, a four-part workshop introducing teens and adults with developmental disabilities to a variety of fine art forms. Workshops will take place at the Brooklyn Center Community Center in October and November 2010.
Funding for NEW WORKS 4 WEEKS 2011, a multidisciplinary performance festival that serves as the culmination of Red Eye’s artist development programs, which provide space and technical support for the creation of new work. The project will begin in winter
Funding for the annual Choreographers Showcase featuring five to nine emerging and established local choreographers. The showcase will take place in August 2012.
Funding for Multicultural Community Tables engaging a group of 12 youth representing three communities of color in a 15-week arts based workshop series examining race and racism. The project will result in the creation of new public art installations in
Funding for the St. Paul Art Crawl, a self-guided walking tour of artists' studios and galleries located around downtown St. Paul. The Art Crawl will be held in April 2011.
Funding for three outreach concerts, including a performance at the Children’s EcoArts Festival, the annual children's concert at the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center, and a third concert performed in a school setting.
Funding for the 2011 Roadshow, an original interactive performance work developed in collaboration with both housed and homeless people. Performances will run during National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week at several venues throughout the Twin Cit
Funding for four months of Sample Night Live!, a monthly evening of performances previewing upcoming and ongoing Twin Cities arts events. Performances will take place at History Theatre in downtown St. Paul from January through May 2011.
Funding for LAB, a low-cost continuing education opportunity for performing artists of any genre. Twenty eight LAB sessions led by Sandbox Ensemble Members will run from March through the summer of 2011 at the FallOut Arts Studio in south Minneapolis.
Funding to produce and stage a new multidisciplinary performance inspired by the work and lives of Donald and Howard Wandrei, two St. Paul science fiction and horror writers from the 1930s. Performances will take place at The Red Eye Theater in November 2
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 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.
Funding for residencies in 20 Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education classrooms during the 2011-2012 school year. The program of 12-week residencies at each school will include music, dance, visual arts, poetry and theatre.
Funding for The Art of Working, an interactive arts program for adults with disabilities that uses dance, music, and poetry to nurture communication skills essential for obtaining employment.
Funding for the 2011 Summer Music Enrichment Program, a three-week day camp for students ages 5 to 12 on instruments including African drum, piano, woodwind, and guitar, and culminating in a performance showcase.
Funding to produce and stage the world premiere Drakul, by John Heimbuch, and the regional premiere of the play After the Quake, by Frank Galati. Drakul will be presented in February 2011 at the Red Eye Theater. After the Quake will be presented in May 20
Funding for the Kwanzaa program, a series of classes for youth on African dance, storytelling, spoken word, hip-hop, and R&B. The classes will culminate in a Kwanzaa celebration at the Sabathani Community Center in December 2011.
Funding for the Winter/Spring 2011 education program, providing fiber art instruction in weaving, spinning and dyeing for all ages. Classes will be held at the Textile Center in Minneapolis.
Funding for the 2011 Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership Summer Arts Program for immigrant and refugee high school girls from throughout the metro area. The program includes 16 two-hour sessions of visual arts instruction at the Canvas Teen Arts Center in
Funding for Make-a-Play which allows students in ages 12 – 17 to work with professional theatre artists in the creation of an original play. The project will take place in the summer of 2011 at Yellow Tree Theatre.
Funding for the 2011 Winter Theater Experience, an audition-based 7-week arts enrichment experience directed toward the youth of St. Paul’s East Side. The project will begin in late January and culminate in performances of The Wiz over two weekends in Ma
Funding for “All Abilities Dancing,” a program designed to give youth with disabilities a quality dance experience that emphasizes ability, from June 2011 to May 2012.
