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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zenon Dance Company proposes touring activities to Duluth, Grand Marais, Mankato, and Cloquet to conduct evening length performances and residency work in each community.
Zenon will expand its work with the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community through a one-week residency at Humboldt Junior High; a free matinee during Zenon's Twin Cities' season; and a free performance of "The Nutcracker According to Mother Goose."
Zorongo Flamenco will join with collaborating partners to bring the art of flamenco dance and music to youth and adults in five Minnesota communities through performances and residency programming.
Given Minnesota students choose the arts and science as electives instead of having them as core curriculum, the purpose of this grant is to engage and enrich the lives of lifelong learners through effectively integrating the arts and sciences in our program.
To make theater accessible to the non-English speaking Hmong community, we will mount the play "Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman"in Hmong and nurture the talents of nontraditional Hmong actors.
The Minnesota Music Coalition will produce and promote a statewide tour of performances and workshops featuring established and emerging musicians and bands working in fine arts presenting venues.
Mixed Precipitation will present fourteen free site-specific performances, in a new forms picnic operettas a hybrid opera accompanied by a five-course menu, created for outdoor performance in community garden spaces in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
20% Theatre Company seeks MSAB support to conduct two, day-long writing and performance workshops for local transgender and differently-gendered artists in June 2011.
Offering "Unsung Among Us" project - Music learning experience for North Minneapolis neighborhood at-risk youth: music training/twice-a-week, offering piano/guitar/drum classes at open music lab/youth creating songs, and re-mix of the Asian music classic to be broadcasted at RadioASIA.
To increase and diversify participation by new immigrant and communities of color in the outreach programs of Speaking of Home-St. Paul, a major public art project in the skyways of downtown St. Paul.
AchieveMpls, in partnership with MacPhail Center for Music, Children's Theatre Company, and Givens Foundation for African American Literature, will expand arts learning opportunities for 750 pre K-7 Minneapolis Public School students through programs that enhance the school curriculum and positively impact student learning.
Wilder Foundation will provide arts learning for elders and adults with disabilities living at Ravoux, a Saint Paul Public Housing hi-rise, and to elders with dementia in its memory loss program by collaborating with Kairos Dance Theatre and the Women's Drum Center.