A National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Nomination was prepared and submitted for the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall located in St. Paul, MN. The Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans (MCDHH) hired two qualified professional historical consultants to prepare the nomination.
A multi-media oral history exhibit was developed to preserve the memories of diverse Twin City immigrant communities and to promote dialog between recent immigrants and native-born citizens. Thirty eight interviews were filmed and photographed.
To make accessible Boys' Life and Scouting and the American Girl and Girl Scout Leader magazines as a basis for understanding scouting history in Minnesota
This project will replace a conventional 32 foot wide neighborhood street with a narrowed 22 -24 foot wide street that will include rain gardens, sidewalk, and boulevard trees. North St. Paul is using the term Living Streets to describe a new type of street that will eventually replace most of the city's existing streets. Living streets are narrower and have less pavement than existing streets. Reducing the width of existing streets reduces construction costs and assessments to residents. It allows room for the installation of rainwater gardens to treat stormwater.
To replace the roof and windows and upgrade the interior of the historic Northern Warehouse for use as an affordable mixed-use space, located in the Lowertown Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
This program will permanently protect remnant native prairie and associated wetland complexes in western Minnesota by purchasing fee title properties and/or habitat easements. Lands and easements purchased through this program by The Nature Conservancy will be transferred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and will become units of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge to be owned and managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
This project will assist farmers across Southeast Minnesota by providing guidance on management of nutrient sources including livestock manure, commercial fertilizers, and legumes. This project is important because excess nutrients and bacteria are causing negative impacts to the quality of waters. Two Nutrient Management Specialists will work one-on-one with farmers to develop 70 plans each year. Over time, it is anticipated that the number of new nutrient management plans will decrease as acres with plans increase.
Funding to support the creation of a three- to five-year resource development plan and to conduct the related staff training necessary to execute the plan.
Funding to support the hire of a part-time development director and to work with a development consultant to create and execute a resource development plan.
A comprehensive overhaul and expansion of the existing outdoor tour system at the Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum was competed by contractors, volunteers and Museum staff. The overhaul involved outdoor tour map re-creation, kiosk guide improvement, script re-writes and audio track replacement. Two new kiosks and an outdoor display of the 1898 School cornerstone and capstone were also installed.
The Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program (CPL) is managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to provide competitive matching grants of up to $400,000 to local, regional, state, and national non-profit organizations and governments. Grant activities include the enhancement, restoration, or protection of forests, wetlands, prairies, and habitat for fish, game, or wildlife in Minnesota. A match of at least 10% from nonstate sources was required for grants of $100,000 or less, and a match of at least 15% from nonstate sources was required for grants over $100,000.
Chinese Social Service Center will collaborate with Pan Asian Arts Alliance and local Asian service agencies, to offer the acrobatic performance, Fenmo to Asian seniors in order to break away the isolation and increase access to arts.
Free Arts for Abused Children's YES To Art program involves local artists creating short, themed projects with abused and at-risk, homeless youth. The program offers young people opportunities to build new skills in theater and to publicly perform their work.
INSTEP will bring Children's Theatre Company's storytelling and critical-thinking early childhood program, Early Bridges, to our classroom, for 30 sessions with children and teaching staff.
The SWAY (Seniors Weaving Arts with Youth), a community dance/theatre program is a collaborative between artist (Kairos Dance Theatre) and social service entity (NORC: Home for a Lifetime!). The program blends art, elders and youth in an intergenerational dance/theater series over 4-6 weeks culminating in a community celebratory performance.
Opportunity Partners provides services to people with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Based on their success in providing high quality arts experiences, we want to provide Upstream Arts workshops for our clients.
Southeast Asian Community Council's Art Adventures engages and increases access to the rich art and cultural vibrancy of the Twin Cities for underprivileged Hmong youths through art classes taught by local Hmong artists and field trips to local art organizations.
Wilder Foundation will enable 267 low-income youth and elders to participate in the arts by providing tickets to performances, transportation, and a drum residency.
Children's Arts and Healing Project is a collaborative project designed to broaden opportunities for patients, children, and families who visit our hospitals, to participate in the arts.
Day One and the Pangea World Theater will create arts-based advocacy tools, to be presented with a performance of Breaking the Silence, at a statewide meeting of domestic violence professionals.
Up to 30 adults with Down syndrome will use puppetry, music, and performance to learn techniques for coping with stress through the Monkey Mind Pirates program, created by Z Puppets Rosenschnoz.
YouthLink will partner with Kulture Klub Collaborative to create a symposium, print document, and Web site, discussing the cultural production of homelessness.
Artist-led activities will foster creative expression, teamwork, inter-cultural understanding, and a sense of accomplishment for low-income children/youth living in low-income residential properties.
In a 3-day retreat, Hmong women and girls will write their stories, experience different writing and storytelling styles, create writing projects, and network with established Hmong women writers.
Ivanhoe Public Library will bring the Prairie Players Theater to our city to spend a week teaching theater skills to kids 8 and up. At the end of the week they will put on a public performance.
Lyngblomsten to provide a year of arts events workshops for older adults and intergenerational community members designed to enhances lives, ignite creativity, and drive passion toward living full, whole lives. Workshops in visual arts, writing, vocal music, and storytelling will happen on site as well as provide funds for off-site transportation to arts events.
Artful Living at Lyngblomsten: Arts for Every Season of Life, brings fine arts events, workshops by resident artists, and celebrations of creativity for Lyngblomsten older adults and community members. Through this request, they are introducing two new seasons of art to complete 2011 and continuing two art partnerships from previous seasons.
This one week project is designed for 60 emotionally disturbed students and will increase their exposure to dance, introduce them to a new form of communication, and provide them with a team experience.
Our Neighborhood Works is partnering with Z Puppets Rosenschnoz for Monkey Mind Pirates, an arts camp for children combining puppetry, songwriting, and yoga. The project culminates in public performances.
Musical theater collaboration with Sounds of Hope, Ltd. 233 adults with developmental disabilities will use theater, music, and dance to bridge differences and broaden arts participation. Transportation to rehearsal space at MacPhail Center for Music will introduce clients to a new arts resource.
