Funding for the 2013 St. Paul Almanac, an annual publishing of amateur and professional literary artists. The 2013 St. Paul Almanac will be released in September 2012.
Funding for “River EcoJourneys,” a series of three, one-week school residencies featuring storytelling, drumming, dance, and the creation of puppets and masks for students in grades 3 to 6 at three schools in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Funding for Summer Theater Camp for students aged 6-13, a full-day, 2-week long hands-on learning experience for students to explore theater arts, acting, music and choreography at the Maplewood Performing Arts Theater in Maplewood Community Center during
Funding for Ashland Collaborative Theater or ACT!, a collaborative theater arts experience for elementary-aged youth and culminating in four staged performances at the Maplewood Performing Arts Theatre in January through March.
Funding for their 5th Annual Fall Concert featuring original choreography accompanied by Beethoven’s 6th Symphony and Handel’s Messiah. Performances will take place at the Fitzgerald Theater in October 2010.
Funding to stage the 18th Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza, a free outdoor pageant and performance that will take place at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul in October 2011.
Funding to create and present a new dance work incorporating film footage and an ensemble of professional ballroom dancers. Performances will take place as part of the inaugural season of the Cowles Center in Minneapolis in February 2012.
Funding to develop and present Super Nature, an interdisciplinary contemporary work investigating human nature in a way that invites empathy and causes viewers to ask questions about themselves, their behavior and society. Performances will take place as
Funding to develop and present a program of short plays written and performed by students focusing on issues of bullying and suicide, and the impact on LBGTA youth. The program will run from February through May of 2011 and targeted to schools including
Funding to produce and stage The Boys in the Band, and The Property Known As Garland, which explore issues of bullying and suicide in the GLBT community. Performances will take place at The Lowry Lab Theater.
Funding for Calliope’s Song, a program to increase members’ repertoire of songs that includes workshops, rehearsals, and community outreach performances. Activities will take place between October 2011 and May 2012.
Funding for the 2011 – 2012 Visiting Artist Series comprised of the Visiting Master Artists’ Weekend in October 2011 and the Minnesota Irish Musicians’ Weekend in June 2012. Events will be held at Celtic Junction in St. Paul.
Funding for Cruzando, an interactive art exhibit honoring those who have died crossing the border from Mexico to the United States. The event will be held at Centro in Minneapolis, during the organization's Day of the Dead celebration in November.
Funding for China the Beautiful (part 1), the 2011 Chinese New Year show showcasing the many styles and uses of Chinese dances. Performances will take place at O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in January 2011.
Funding for an Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song residency with 7th grade students at Sanford Middle School in Minneapolis from late January to mid June 2011.
Funding for the 2011 – 2012 Concert Season, a series of four concerts of Italian Baroque music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Concerts will take place at The Chapel of St. Mary at the St. Paul Seminary between September 2011 and April 2012.
Funding for a new full-length dance performance featuring a hybrid form of Afro-Brazilian contemporary dance and capoeira. Performances will be held at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis in winter 2012.
Funding for the 25th Anniversary Concert, featuring two new works by Joanie Smith and one from the Shapiro & Smith repertory. Performances will take place as part of the inaugural year of the Goodale Theater in the Cowles Center, in April 2012.
Funding for the Academy Mentorship Program providing individual lessons, ensemble master classes and joint performances with inner-city band programs during the 2011 spring semester at Edison High School and Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis.
Funding for the Art Buddies program pairing 80 creative mentors one-on-one with 80 low-income students ages 8 to 11 in the Community Education After-School program at Whittier International Elementary School in Minneapolis during the 2011-12 school year.
Funding for the In Residence dance program, a collaboration between DA Dance and the Women of Nations domestic violence shelter. The project includes two 2-week residencies consisting of workshops and performances.
Funding for master classes, clinics, workshops and school assemblies at 12 metro area high schools and middle schools in 2011 and 2012 featuring local and national jazz artists.
Funding for three artist residencies at Highwood Hills Elementary School and Academia Cesar Chavez charter school on the East Side of St. Paul in May, June, November and December of 2011.
Funding for Percussive “Dance That Makes Music” Residencies in three Twin Cities area high schools that will provide youth with an opportunity to work with professional percussive dancers and choreographers over the course of 2 to 4 weeks.
Funding for Blow Your Mind, workshops in glass sculpture led by master artists Charles Lowrie and Michael Angelo Menconi. Workshops will held in December 2010 at the Foci Center in Minneapolis.
Funding for a 3-day glassbowing workshop on traditional Italian techniques for intermediate to advanced students with glass artist Tony Cray in late May 2011.
Funding to present the original comedy How to Supervise Your Man, an adaptation of a depression-era insurance manual into a look at American economic values. Performances will take place at the Loring Theater in September 2011.
Funding to provide high school youth access to an intimate, in-depth and high quality professional theatre experience, stimulate critical thinking, and cultivate a sense of arts appreciation with at-risk youth at alternative high schools in the Twin Citie
Funding for the Summer Youth Chorus, providing education, coaching, and performance opportunities for young men of high school and college age. Activities will take place between February and July 2012.
Funding to develop and remount the play Pinocchio-chan, an original stage adaptation utilizing the stylized Japanese performance techniques of kabuki and ningyo-buri. Performances will take place in winter 2010.
Funding to re-establish training programs for actors focusing on traditional Asian theater techniques. The program will have one component for introductory students and one for developing the skills of Green T core company members, and will run from Febr
Funding for the Canvas Public Art Enhancement Project, a youth-driven collaborative project that will increase the visibility and use of the grounds and facilities at the Canvas Teen Art Center over eight weeks in the summer of 2011.
Golden Valley Historical Society hired a licensed and bonded professional hazardous waste materials removal company to properly abate asbestos and improve public safety at the Golden Valley History Museum.
An interpretive exhibit and program plan, "Dakota Native Plant Garden", was designed and developed for outdoor display. The exhibit uses the stories from several generations of a Dakota family who originally lived along the shore of Mde Waka Ska (Lake Calhoun). The stories reveal the ethno-history of the Bakken's restored wetland and prairie. This area contains more than 40 species of native plants historically used for medicinal and cultural purposes.
Thirty monitors were installed to measure moisture readings in the upper reaches of the Basilica of St. Mary. Restoration projects had been put on hold due to previous water infiltration and the damage that was caused by saturation of masonry walls and ceiling plaster. Such infiltration takes a long time to dry. There were concerns that plaster was continuing to absorb moisture from the attic insulation or the masonry walls.
This Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) project will develop a TMDL Report and Implementation Plan defining the sources contributing to the impairments and outlining the steps necessary to bring Bluff Creek back to meeting water quality standards.
This project will develop a Final TMDL report and Implementation Plan for the Bluff Creek Watershed. The main outcomes of this project are the development of a Final TMDL Report approved by MPCA and EPA and a Final Implementation Plan approved by MPCA.
A 3-volume boxed set of "Patriots of Brooklyn: Suppressors of the Great Slave Rebellion" was published by the Brooklyn Historical Society. The books document the historic role that 200+ soldiers from Brooklyn Township played in the American Civil War. The books are a valuable reference resource for local residents and historians.