Funding for Pieces of Our Lives, the sixth biannual quilt show featuring quilts by the Women of the West Quilters. The show will be held at the Plymouth Creek Center in October 2011.
Funding for Dances at the Lakes, a free dance concert featuring original choreography by Colleen Tague. Performances will take place at the Lake Harriet Rose Garden in Summer 2011.
To gather stories about the Staples railroad hire a playwright and music composer to work with students ages 8-18 to write songs and play vignettes to be performed on August 29
The purpose of this grant is to build on what was created with last year’s grant funding by creating a Dakota Language and culture institute. The purpose of the institute is to offer multilevel teacher training seminars and Dakota language and culture immersion sessions for intergenerational groups.
Since 1961, Concordia Language Villages has been the premier language and cultural immersion program in the US, with a mission to "prepare young people for responsible citizenship in our global community."
The Humanities Center’s work with the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans (CAPM) is primarily focused on bringing cultural awareness and education to Minnesotans through a variety of public arts and cultural events.
The Humanities Center’s work with the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans (CAPM) is primarily focused on bringing cultural awareness and education to Minnesotans through a variety of public arts and cultural events.
The Humanities Center’s cooperative programming with the Council on Black Minnesotans focuses on providing programs and events that will satisfy the needs of individual communities represented by the Council on Black Minnesotans, increasing visibility and understanding among the dominant culture, and ensuring the academic success and opportunity for all children.
The Humanities Center’s cooperative programming with the Council on Black Minnesotans focuses on providing programs and events that will satisfy the needs of individual communities represented by the Council on Black Minnesotans, increasing visibility and understanding among the dominant culture, and ensuring the academic success and opportunity for all children.
Funding to expand their Arts Learning Program, which provides artist residencies to 250 students each year.Project partners include: Lutheran Social Service, and COMPAS.
To bring a variety of cultural entertainment to the Waseca County Free Fair, including yodeling, Bluegrass, Irish, Alpine, Czechoslovakian, gospel and Americana music, a vaudeville show, and genealogical information from the Minnesota Historical Society.
To provide educational and entertaining events that showcase the many diverse cultures of Stevens County, and purchase a sound system to enhance performances and demonstrations.
A project of: Arts and Cultural Heritage Grants Program-Civics Education (State Fiscal Years 2012-2013)
Recipient:
Dakota Wicohan
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$50,000
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Dakota Wicohan will create a civic engagement and leadership curriculum for Dakota youth. The program will train Dakota youth through the inter-related strategies of remembering, reclaiming, and reconnecting with our Dakota language and lifeways to enhance the region’s civic foundation.
2010 Grant Activities Plan and implement a five-day immersion methodology training session for 20 Dakota participants, with a follow up weekend workshop. Create a thematic based immersion curriculum, along with assessment tools, for Dakota learners that will be available in print and via an interactive web page.
The population of fluent speakers in all Dakota communities is decreasing at a rapid rate. The Upper Sioux is no exception to this. Because the Upper Sioux Community is small, accurate data on the number of Dakota speakers is easy to obtain.
Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to revitalize the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language. Dakota Wicohan’s long range strategic plan includes building a strong teacher base, recording speakers, developing teaching tools from filming fluent speakers, developing additional learning opportunities, as well as, long term educational plans.
Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to preserve and renew the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language.
Grant Activities: Dakota Wicohan is a regional non-profit language support organization that seeks to revitalize the Dakota language in Minnesota to a living language. In this grant, they will create a Dakota Public Awareness Project to promote awareness and knowledge of the Dakota language and its history to Minnesotans in 2013. Dakota Wicohan created a Dakota language documentary film which will be shown in ten communities, along with an educational booklet.
