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Red Eye Collaboration AKA Red Eye
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,675
To develop and implement the second phase of the Artist Teaching Artist professional development program in FY11 and then support for a new retinue of teaching artists to begin the Artist Teaching Artist training in FY12.
Hennepin
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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
The Ordway will increase access for senior citizens with limited income and/or transportation challenges to attend “Guys and Dolls” and contribute stories of the time period through workshops with artists.
Ramsey
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000
Hyphe-NATIONS: Immigrants Matter is a community-based project that will involve creating a sustained relationship with Latina/o immigrants and the Latin American community of Lake Street and its surrounding neighborhoods between July 2010 and June 2011 through workshops, events, and dialogues.
Hennepin
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,300
Pangea World Theater, along with the Lao Assistance Center and Intermedia Arts Minnesota, will bring TeAda Production's Refugee Nation theater performance to the Twin Cities, an acclaimed interdisciplinary/multimedia presentation that explores the impact of war, refugees, global politics and U. S. citizenship.
Hennepin
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,200
In the Diverse Stages program, Pangea teaching artists and the fine arts faculty of Southwest High School will introduce students to material that will enhance core curriculum as well as prepare students to create original theatrical work based on their lives and issues.
Hennepin
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Park Square Theatre Company AKA Park Square Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,480
Park Square's Theatre Ambassadors Program is a nine-month program to strengthen the skills and leadership of twenty teens through artist-led workshops, performances, and service projects that serve an additional 500 community members.
Ramsey
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Park Square Theatre Company AKA Park Square Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$42,250
Park Square will increase access for patrons with disabilities by implementing initiatives to overcome identified barriers: price, limited interpreted performances and knowledge of access services.
Ramsey
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Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,520
Zenon proposes six residency programs at schools and community centers in Buffalo, Faribault, and Saint Paul, serving deaf/hard of hearing, at-risk, and general population students.
Hennepin
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Pillsbury Math Science Technology School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,996

Children's Theatre Company will use theater, storytelling, and creative writing to introduce and enrich arts learning for students in grades 4 and 5 through a thirteen-session Neighborhood Bridges theater arts residency which also complements literacy goals.

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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 20 months to 50 years.
Hennepin
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Ragamala Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,500
Three public performances and seven days of outreach in Duluth, Fergus Falls, and Rochester will bring Ragamala’s work to underserved areas and educate new audiences about the arts/culture of India and Japan.
Hennepin
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Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society AKA The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,400
To support of the planning and implementation of regional tours in nontraditional Minnesota venues in the 2010-11 season.
Ramsey
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Saint Paul Parks and Recreation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$153,767
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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Saint Paul Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,850
Students of three distinct Saint Paul school communities housed in one building will come together to create and perform music, theater, visual art, and writing in Jazz at Rondo. Standards-based arts learning will foster development of individual and collective voice.
Ramsey
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Saint Paul Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,040
Students of three distinct Saint Paul school communities, housed in one building, will come together to create and perform music, theater, visual art, and writing in Jazz at Rondo. Standards-based arts learning will foster development of individual and collective voice.
Ramsey
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Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,000
Semilla: The Phillips Mosaic Project will train youth and adult artistic leaders in mosaic arts, while beautifying the neighborhood and building community through workshops with community partners, the result of which will be mosaic planters throughout the community.
Hennepin
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Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
The Phillips art project, Semilla, will expand to teach mosaic and mural arts to bilingual, multigenerational communities by training youth and adult artists as arts facilitators and by creating mosaic planters and murals that help unify the community.
Hennepin
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Singers Minnesota Choral Artists AKA The Singers-Minnesota Choral Artists
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,289

The Singers-Minnesota Choral Artists will present concerts in Staples and Duluth. The Singers also will offer classes and outreach activities to local high school and community choirs.

Hennepin
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South Education Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,250

The community of special needs learners at the South Education Center (Richfield) will participate in extended, quality arts learning, increasing their skills in arts participation and producing lasting artwork for the school gardens and entry.

Hennepin
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Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,650
Sounds of Hope, Ltd. Will tour to rural cities in southeastern Minnesota with a company of young performers from twelve or more countries worldwide.
Ramsey
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Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,000
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's Family Matters Project will conduct ten-day dance residencies for core groups of fourth to sixth graders in three West Metro Education Program member districts, including planning, lecture/demonstrations, daily classroom workshops, community workshops, concluding performances, and evaluation.
Hennepin
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Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$76,000
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
Hennepin
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Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,500
Family Matters Project is a series of 2-week residencies for schools in the 11 member West Metro Education Program districts which will include the history of dance, movement skills, dance creation and performance by students, planning and evaluation time, and workshops for the community.
Hennepin
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Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,100
The Moving Stories project will introduce the power of dance to caregivers at the Hennepin County Medical Center through a series of workshops, performances, and free tickets to SPDT's Home Season.
Hennepin
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Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,200
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
Hennepin
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Ten Thousand Things AKA Ten Thousand Things Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,000
We are seeking an Arts Access grant to tour the three shows of our 2010-2011 to audiences in Alexandria, St. Cloud, and Leech Lake, in hopes of building new relationships with groups that serve low-income people in these communities.
Hennepin
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Textile Center of Minnesota AKA Textile Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,400
Textile Center will conduct 12-week fiber art residencies at Sobriety High Charter School sites in Coon Rapids and Edina. This standards-based residency will complement and extend academic programming for students who are recovering from alcohol and drug dependency.
Hennepin
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TU Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,480
TU Dance will tour to two greater Minnesota communities (Bigfork and Fergus Falls), presenting public performances and collaborating with each partner to conduct master classes, reach underserved populations, and engage the largest and broadest possible audiences.
Ramsey
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Textile Center of Minnesota AKA Textile Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,200
The Textile Center will create a touring exhibition showcasing artistic excellence and innovation in fiber art by accomplished Minnesota fiber artists. The fiber art exhibition will initially travel to Bemidji, Lanesboro, Mankato, and New York Mills and will include hands-on education activities.
Hennepin
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Textile Center of Minnesota AKA Textile Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
The Textile Center will create a touring exhibition showcasing artistic excellence and innovation in fiber art by accomplished Minnesota fiber artists. The fiber art exhibition will initially travel to Bemidji, Lanesboro, Mankato, and New York Mills and will include hands-on education activities.
Hennepin
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Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Servant Hearts and The Phoenix, the gay straight alliance of Bemidji State University will present a community outreach concert by the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus at Bemidji State University.
Hennepin
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University of Minnesota Theatre and Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,472

Stage Elements is an eleven-day summer intensive for high school students taught at a college level that introduces participants to the wide variety of theatrical styles and techniques, classical and contemporary, that we teach at the University of Minnesota.

Hennepin
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Upstream Arts, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,500
Upstream Arts is requesting support of its arts residency program in twenty Minneapolis Public Schools’ Special Education classrooms in the 2011-2012 school year. Students of all abilities will participate in music, dance, visual arts, poetry, and theater.
Hennepin
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Urban Arts Academy
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,400
To increase arts access, Urban Arts will create bilingual core arts instruction classes, held weekly in three-month sessions, to provide more in-depth knowledge and foster passions for specific art forms.
Hennepin
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Veterans in the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,123

Veterans in the Arts' Advanced Level Classes are part of a progressive program to bring veterans into the arts through some of the Twin Cities leading centers: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Book Arts Center, and Northern Clay Center.

Ramsey
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VocalEssence
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$123,292
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, Saint Cloud, and Duluth, in November of 2011. Multiple-day residencies in each community will engage students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
Hennepin
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Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,070
Zenon Dance Company proposes a 3-week tour to southwestern Minnesota during April and May 2011. This includes Marshall, Pipestone, and Luverne, Minnesota. Zenon will perform evening length performances, 5-day intensive residencies, and master classes.
Hennepin
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Zeitgeist
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,360
Zeitgeist is requesting support for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc, text by Kevin Kling, and direction by Ben Krywosz, to take place at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center.
Ramsey
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Zeitgeist
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,900
Zeitgeist will present for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc and text by Kevin Kling, which will tour to four communities in northwest Minnesota.
Ramsey
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Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,384
Zenon Dance Company proposes touring activities to Duluth, Grand Marais, Mankato, and Cloquet to conduct evening length performances and residency work in each community.
Hennepin