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Mixed Precipitation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,950
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.
Hennepin
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20 Theatre Company Twin Cities AKA 20% Theatre Company Twin Cities
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,700
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.
Hennepin
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Asian Media Access
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,500
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.
Hennepin
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Public Interest, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,625
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.
Hennepin
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AchieveMinneapolis AKA AchieveMpls/Arts for Academic Achievement
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,260
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.
Hennepin
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Amherst H. Wilder Foundation AKA Wilder Foundation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,349
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.
Ramsey
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The Archie and Phebe Mae Givens Foundation AKA The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,900
In 2010-2011, the Givens Foundation for African American Literature will launch Givens Black Books, a community reading campaign designed to increase access to and engagement in the literary arts in the Twin Cities' African American community.
Hennepin
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Ballet Works, Inc. AKA James Sewell Ballet
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,962
James Sewell Ballet' ArtAces is an outreach ticket and transportation program aimed at providing access to our performance and education programs for schools who wish to participate, regardless of financial ability.
Hennepin
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John D. Noltner
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,939
To create a traveling exhibit for A Peace of My Mind, a documentary project that combines oral history and portraiture to explore the meaning of peace, using art and storytelling as a means to foster public dialogue.
Hennepin
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Bedlam Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,081

Bedlam seeks funds to expand opportunities for teens within our successful youth programming in Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. This grant will fund three youth activities and a skill-building workshop for Bedlam artists in support of youth activities.

Hennepin
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Brooklyn Center Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,800
This seven-month multimedia arts program is framed through documentary filmmaking and community engagement. Students will create, perform, and respond to their learning in the areas of video, audio production, and scriptwriting/storytelling.
Hennepin
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The Cedar Cultural Center, Inc. AKA The Cedar
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,500
The Cedar will partner with Brian Coyle Center, African Development Center, and West Bank School of Music to engage the East African communities of Cedar-Riverside with a comprehensive arts program that uses music events as the focal point.
Hennepin
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Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester AKA Choral Arts Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
Choral Arts Ensemble partnering with two community groups, will provide 3 free public concerts, with an educational talk, to engage underserved members of the public in meaningful arts performances.
Olmsted
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Discovery Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,395
The Discovery Center offers four new arts opportunities in orchestra, instrumental ensemble, opera, and pottery to increase the engagement of youth and adults, expand access to the arts for underserved populations, and increase community wide knowledge through cable TV.
Hennepin
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El Colegio Charter School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,400
Students and community will 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.
Hennepin
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Friends of the Hopkins Center for the Arts AKA Hopkins Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,715
To enhance its concert series with four events that present high quality artists who otherwise would not be heard in the community.
Hennepin
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Friends of the Hopkins Center for the Arts AKA Hopkins Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,440
To bring four concerts to the western suburbs by national artists of high caliber, elevating the artistic merit of our concert season and providing arts experiences not otherwise available to our community.
Hennepin
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Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota AKA Sumunar
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
The Sumunar Gamelan and Dance Ensemble will present a featured performance at the Minnesota State University Moorhead's Day of World Percussion, to be attended by Moorhead students and faculty plus performers and participants from throughout Minnesota and the Dakotas
Hennepin
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Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc. AKA Intermedia Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$51,019

This project will dramatically increase access for at risk teens to arts programming, events, and leadership opportunities; eliminating barriers of transportation, cost, and access to information

Hennepin
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MIGIZI Communications, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,629

The Madwe'igan (Ojibwe: a tool for being heard) Project consists of teams of storytelling and media artists engaging American Indian students, grades K to 3, in the creation of video and new media arts projects.

Hennepin
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Library Foundation of Hennepin County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,425
Childish Films @ the Library is an innovative series of professionally curated classic, independent, and new world cinema for ages three and up. Free and open to the public, films are paired with hands-on arts activities for young children.
Hennepin
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Lionsgate Academy
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,400
Lionsgate Academy will engage a variety of COMPAS artists over a 2-year period to address the unique learning and developmental needs and styles of students on the autism spectrum through increased opportunities for artistic learning, training, and expression.
Hennepin
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Milkweed Editions
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,511
Our mission is to expand access to literature and cultivate relationships in communities across the state of Minnesota by bringing two authors to nine locations, for a total of 14 events.
Hennepin
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Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2011: four coffee concerts at Nicollet Island, transportation provided; and one neighborhood concert at Elliot Park.
Hennepin
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The Minnesota Opera
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,000
The project addresses engagement among underrepresented 20-somethings by addressing unique practical and perceptual barriers, building community networks, and providing participation incentives.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Orchestral Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,478
The Minnesota Orchestra will partner with the Minneapolis Public Schools to create UPbeat Encore, where students and families attend a concert at Orchestra Hall.
Hennepin
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Mixed Blood Theatre Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,392

With a 30-year track record of touring in Minnesota, Mixed Blood Theatre Company will tour seven productions to 16 statewide communities over the next two years to promote pluralism, to serve vulnerable Minnesotans, and to provoke discussion and education about cultural competence.

Hennepin
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,000
Art and Soul of the Arab Community is a program that will create a sustained relationship with the Twin Cities Arab American community between March 2011 and February 2012.
Hennepin
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Pillsbury United Communities AKA Pillsbury House Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,800
To design communication strategies that expose all Pillsbury House constituents (from current patrons to neighbors) to the multiple arts opportunities in Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center.
Hennepin
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Pillsbury United Communities AKA Pillsbury House Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$102,400
Pillsbury House Theatre and the Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center will work together to integrate arts learning into five of the non-arts community programs, reaching people ages twenty months to 50 years.
Hennepin
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Pillsbury United Communities AKA Pillsbury House Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,250
Pillsbury House Theatre will reduce economic and perceptual barriers to theater attendance by implementing an all pay-what-you-can run of BROKE-OLOGY in the winter of 2011 and promoting it specifically to low-income neighborhood residents and participants of community partner organizations.
Hennepin
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Plymouth Christian Youth Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,700
At the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis, Latin orchestras Charanga Tropical and Tropical Zone Orchestra will perform two concerts, introducing a diverse audinence to Latin music during FLOW.
Hennepin
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Project SUCCESS AKA Project Success-Students Undertaking Creative Control
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000
Expand the Stories project for English Language Learner students, writing and performing their migration stories, to three additional public schools in St. Paul and Minneapolis, providing more arts learning opportunities to students who face barriers to participation.
Hennepin
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The Rose Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,725
Rose Ensemble will present an eight city tour of, Songs of Temperance and Temptation: 100 Years of Restraint and Revelry in Minnesota, with concerts/pre-concert discussions/research and choral music workshops.
Ramsey
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The Rose Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
The Rose Ensemble will significantly expand the scope and depth of its annual greater Minnesota tour by bringing in-school workshops, adult arts learning experiences, and affordable concerts of medieval and Renaissance music to six old and new touring communities.
Ramsey
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Saint Paul Parks and Recreation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$144,157
The Saint Paul Community Youth Arts Project will dramatically increase Saint Paul Parks and Recreations ability to use its many community spaces to engage Saint Paul at-risk youth in grades K-12 in high-quality arts learning opportunities during out-of-school time hours.
Ramsey
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Soo Visual Arts Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
The Minnesota Teen Artist Exhibition Program (MTAEP) will allow Soo to reach out to teen artists, an under- represented group in our programming, and present their contributions to the public.
Hennepin
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Shari G. Aronson
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Aronson will collaborate with eleven presenters to bring puppetry performances and learning experiences to suburban, rural and urban family audiences across Minnesota, expanding on the work of her 2010 Arts Tour grant.
Hennepin
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Shari G. Aronson
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,352
In 2011, she will tour (as Z Puppets Rosenschnoz) to Duluth Children's Museum, Mankato's Children's Museum, and Austin's Paramount Theatre. Throughout the year, she will present a total of 30 performances and 60 hours of arts education experiences in nearby communities.
Hennepin
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Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,880
The project will deliver global music concerts, workshops, and activities to 2,000 persons in three underserved communities: seniors in care facilities, youth, and adults with disabilities.
Ramsey