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.
Phoenix Alternatives's Job Enactment Program utilizes Upstream Arts a theater group providing instructional coaching in career and job development scenarios to help secure community jobs for clients with disabilities.
Project SUCCESS will collaborate with the Guthrie Theater to organize four different field trips featuring three different productions for students at Washburn and South High Schools in Minneapolis.
To bring inner-city youth and their families to a variety of arts experiences they would otherwise not be able to access to due cost and transportation
Art Adventures is a summer arts initiative to engage and increase access to the arts for low-income, underprivileged Hmong youths through working with artists and visiting local arts organizations and events.
A writing group and an art group Expression for Wellness and Effectiveness will each meet twice monthly, for nine months, to prepare, share, and critique participants' work. It will be advertised in the Powderhorn and Phillips neighborhoods. A chapbook (32 pages) and a gallery exhibition of at least twelve works will be presented in L'Orange Gallery.
YouthLink requests support for an Art Garden initiative, programmed by Kulture Klub Collaborative, designed to connect homeless youth and artists in an exploration of sustainability and community.
Four visual arts workshops programmed by Kulture Klub Collaborative and led by working artists that are designed to provide homeless young women with immersive, participatory arts experiences in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography, and creative writing.
The YWCA will engage at risk youth and immigrant families in arts events and activities, including performances and artist workshops, to reduce barriers and increase understanding and involvement in the arts.
Bloomington Early Childhood Family Center's Kinderprep will bring Children's Theatre Company's storytelling and critical-thinking
early childhood program, Early Bridges, to our classroom for twenty sessions.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation will stage a series of 24 interactive arts events, working with COMPAS to identify visual, music, and written word artists who will address the needs of the diverse populations we serve.
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.
Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.
This program will protect 900 acres of priority prairie grassland, wetland habitat, and native remnant prairie (if available) as state wildlife management areas (WMA). In addition, acquired lands will be restored and/or enhanced to prairie and/or wetland habitat. Once complete, these WMAs will provide quality grassland/wetland habitat complexes that will benefit a myriad of game and non-game species and will provide public recreational opportunities for the citizens of Minnesota.
The Lake Sylvia Flute Institute will provide flute and guitar instruction for musicians (Suzuki trained and traditional) ages 5-19 years and training for adult musicians interested in becoming teachers of, or furthering their studies in, the Suzuki Method
The glacial geology of Ramsey County includes many layers of impermeable and semi-permeable material that can protect aquifers from contaminated waters. Many municipal public supply wells exist to draw water from these aquifers to supply thousands of consumers on a daily basis. Unfortunately, abandoned/unused wells also penetrate the protective layers of glacial material and can "short-circuit" the natural protection our glacial geology can provide allowing unfettered movement of contamination to even deeper aquifers below the ground.
