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Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for a six-month arts intensive training program, partnering Lao youth and emerging artists with an Oscar-nominated Lao director, award-winning writers, performers, and visual artists. Activities will take plan in North Minneapolis between July and
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Les Jolies Petites School of Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the 2011 summer workshops focusing on modern dance at the School’s North Minneapolis studio.
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Link Vostok
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for workshops, classes and performance for professional dance artists, choreographers and performers with artist and educator Julyen Hamilton at the Mississippi/Ebro Dance Festival from October 27 to November 13, 2011 in Minneapolis.
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Live Action Set
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to create and produce a world premier play based on Edward Gorey’s children’s book, Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus. Performances will take place during the Minnesota Fringe Festival at the Mill City Museum in August 2011.
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Lyndale Neighborhood Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the Music and Dance from Around the World program, a partnership between Lyndale Neighborhood Association and the Hosmer Library to present culturally diverse music and dance performances. Performances will take place at the Hosmer Library and
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Lyra, Inc. AKA The Lyra Baroque Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,910
Funding for baroque instrument presentations at Capitol Hill Magnet, Ramsey Junior High, and Murray Junior High schools in February, March and April of 2011, and the presentation of a Young People’s Concert in collaboration with the Schubert Club at the L
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Lyra, Inc. AKA The Lyra Baroque Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the 2011 – 2012 Season featuring five Baroque concerts and a master class series. Performances will take place at Sundin Hall at Hamline University in St. Paul between October 2011 and May 2012.
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Medieval Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the sixth annual immersive residential summer history camp for students ages 14 to 18 on the Augsburg College campus in July 2011.
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Mentoring Peace Through Art Inc
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for a twelve thousand square foot, anti-gang graffiti mural to be created by community members lead by artist Jimmy Langoria. The mural will be painted on a retaining wall between August and October 2011.
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Mentoring Peace Through Art Inc
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the creation of murals and related documentation and archiving by students at Northport Elementary School in Brooklyn Center in September and October of 2011.
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Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for five concerts of live orchestral music from varying eras. Performances will take place in metro area locations between November 2010 and May 2011.
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Minneapolis Guitar Quartet Association AKA Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to present the world premieres of two newly commissioned works for the quartet. Gao Hong’s Impressions of Dong Minority People for Pipa and Guitar Quartet, and Van Stiefel’s Cinema Castaneda, will be performed at Twin Cities locations in March 201
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Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival, an annual event presenting feature films, documentaries, and shorts from around the world on themes of Jewish culture and identity. The festival will take place at Sabes Jewish Community Center in April 20
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Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to produce and stage The Story of My Life, a musical that tells the story of two childhood friends, and how that friendship profoundly defined their lives. Performances will take place at the Illusion Theater in March 2012.
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Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to expand the Orchestra’s “Kids Play” free music mentoring program for high school orchestra students during the 2011-12 school year.
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Minneapolis Urban League
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for a six-week ceramics project and the African American Culture Camp, an annual six-day art immersion camp for youth. The project will begin in August 2011.
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Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for Further Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Third Mental Health Musical, a 40-minute performance using familiar fairy tales to illustrate symptoms of common children's mental health disorders. Ten performances will take place around the metro area in Mar
Ramsey
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Minnesota Association of Songwriters
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,310
Funding for three full-day songwriting and one full-day performance workshops that will take place between January and August 2011.
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Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for Passage of Life, the fourteenth installment in the Rainbow Series of Chinese Dances. Dances will include a fusion of Chinese, American hip-hop, and modern dance. Performances will take place at the Brady Education Center of the University of S
Ramsey
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Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to provide Chinese Folk Dance and Classical Dance lessons for adults and children taught by instructors from China from May until mid- September 2011.
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Minnesota Guitar Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for six concerts featuring guitar virtuosos and free workshops and master classes with the artists. The concerts and master classes will be held between October 2010 and May 2011, at Sundin Music Hall on the campus of Hamline University.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the world premiere of The Gospel According to Jerry, a theatrical comedy. Performances will take place at the Hillcrest Recreation Center in April and May 2011.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the organization’s fall concert, featuring internationally renowned violin soloist Andrew Sords. Performances will take place at Sundin Hall in November 2011.
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Minnesota Spoken Word Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the Spoken Word and Literacy Institute, an outreach literacy program for local high school students and teachers. The Institute will be held over two weekends in May 2011.
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Minnesota Sunshine Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for Longing for the Qeej, an original Hmong dance drama. Performances will be presented at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and other community celebrations between August 2011 and January 2012.
Ramsey
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Mizna
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the 7th annual Arab Film Festival. The four-day festival will feature 20 films by Arab and Arab-American emerging, independent, and established filmmakers. The event will take place at The Heights Theatre in November 2011.
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Nautilus Music-Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to support the expansion and refinement of the Artist Development Program with a focus on directing scholarships, performing power classes, the mentor initiative, and basic musical skills classes for actors during the 2011-12 season.
Ramsey
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Nautilus Music-Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for six ROUGH CUTS programs, a series of monthly presentations of works-in-progress, dialogues between artists and audience members, and explorations of the creative process. Funding will support five regular presentations as well as one special p
Ramsey
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New Franklin Cultural Center AKA Franklin Art Works
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for a free eight-week summer program of advanced photography instruction for 50 Twin Cities area youth ages 15 to 17 in June and July of 2011.
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New Franklin Cultural Center AKA Franklin Art Works
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to present an exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Shawn Cheng premiering a series of screen prints that explore the history, mythology, legend, and folktales of the artist’s native Taiwan.
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Nimbus Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to produce and stage Jean Genet’s, The Balcony. Performance will be held at the organization’s new space in northeast Minneapolis in February 2011.
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Off-Leash Area AKA Off-Leash Area: Contemporary Performance Works
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for Now We See You, Now We Don’t, an original dance and theatre production about a visual artist who goes blind. Performances will take place at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, in March 2011.
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Oratorio Society of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for two concerts in their 2010-2011 Season. The fall concert will be in collaboration with the Hopkins High School Chamber Choir and take place at St. Olaf Catholic Church in November 2010. The spring concert will take place at Temple Israel in Up
Dakota
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OverExposure
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for a four-week black and white photography workshop that will partner teens from Centro, a social service organization serving Latino and Chicano communities, with Augsburg College photography students in July and August of 2011.
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Park Avenue Youth and Family Services
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Funding for “All About Me,” a three-week digital media project for 40 youth from Central and surrounding South Minneapolis neighborhoods in the summer of 2011.
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Partnership Resources, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
Funding for “Challenging Perceptions: PRI Artists Focus on the Walker Art Center,” a 25-week program beginning in May 2011 for 20 adults with developmental disabilities to learn drawing and painting through exposure to the Walker’s permanent collection.
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People Incorporated
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
Funding for the Artability Show and Sale, a three-day event for artists with mental illness to exhibit and sell their artwork.
Ramsey
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Plymouth Christian Youth Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for spoken word and music production residencies for up to 20 students at the PYC Arts & Tech High School. The residencies will take place in nine-week classes during the 2011-12 school year.
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Rain Taxi, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the 11th annual Twin Cities Book Festival, a free one-day public literary event featuring readings, panel discussions, book signings, writing workshops, book art demonstrations, storytelling, and other activities for all ages. The festival wil
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Reach for Resources, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,100
Funding for Art Abilities, a four-part workshop introducing teens and adults with developmental disabilities to a variety of fine art forms. Workshops will take place at the Brooklyn Center Community Center in October and November 2010.
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