In partnership with VSA arts of Minnesota and Northfield Arts Guild, Epic Enterprise will develop and embed a multi-arts program for adults with developmental disabilities and build staff capacity to teach arts as an ongoing and daily program at Epic.
Focusing on a theme of Making Art Together Builds Community, all students at Farmington Elementary will work with one of four artists using the European and American folk song and dance, Ghaian drumming, West African dance, and puppetry.
Arts 101 is 12 months of quality and meaningful arts samplers traveling TO existing groups of any age.For participants,tickets and transportation will be provided for a more in depth experience.
To bring four concerts to the western suburbs by national artists of high caliber, elevating the artistic merit of our concert season and providing arts experiences not otherwise available to our community.
In the Circus of the States residency, fourth grade students will learn circus skills and create a performance celebrating their geographic study. The project will include individual research, collaboration, creative problem solving, and theater to entertain and teach.
The Sumunar Gamelan and Dance Ensemble will present a featured performance at the Minnesota State University Moorhead's Day of World Percussion, to be attended by Moorhead students and faculty plus performers and participants from throughout Minnesota and the Dakotas
This project will dramatically increase access for at risk teens to arts programming, events, and leadership opportunities; eliminating barriers of transportation, cost, and access to information
IFTPA will collaborate with Sibley Elementary School in Northfield and the Northfield Community Chinese School to hire Chinese musician Gao Hong to do residencies at each school.
The Madwe'igan (Ojibwe: a tool for being heard) Project consists of teams of storytelling and media artists engaging American Indian students, grades K to 3, in the creation of video and new media arts projects.
Public art project involving educational outreach workshops for underserved audiences, culminating with a regional iron pour, artist talk, community art brochure and public art installation.
Childish Films @ the Library is an innovative series of professionally curated classic, independent, and new world cinema for ages three and up. Free and open to the public, films are paired with hands-on arts activities for young children.
Lionsgate Academy will engage a variety of COMPAS artists over a 2-year period to address the unique learning and developmental needs and styles of students on the autism spectrum through increased opportunities for artistic learning, training, and expression.
Our mission is to expand access to literature and cultivate relationships in communities across the state of Minnesota by bringing two authors to nine locations, for a total of 14 events.
The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra will perform five free concerts for seniors during July 2011: four coffee concerts at Nicollet Island, transportation provided; and one neighborhood concert at Elliot Park.
The project addresses engagement among underrepresented 20-somethings by addressing unique practical and perceptual barriers, building community networks, and providing participation incentives.
The Minnesota Orchestra will partner with the Minneapolis Public Schools to create UPbeat Encore, where students and families attend a concert at Orchestra Hall.
Timothy Sparks will underwrite a series of solo guitar performances, with accompanying master classes, guitar workshops, and lecture demonstrations, in small communities and schools throughout Minnesota.
With a 30-year track record of touring in Minnesota, Mixed Blood Theatre Company will tour seven productions to 16 statewide communities over the next two years to promote pluralism, to serve vulnerable Minnesotans, and to provoke discussion and education about cultural competence.
Art and Soul of the Arab Community is a program that will create a sustained relationship with the Twin Cities Arab American community between March 2011 and February 2012.
To design communication strategies that expose all Pillsbury House constituents (from current patrons to neighbors) to the multiple arts opportunities in Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center.
Pillsbury House Theatre and the Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center will work together to integrate arts learning into five of the non-arts community programs, reaching people ages twenty months to 50 years.
Pillsbury House Theatre will reduce economic and perceptual barriers to theater attendance by implementing an all pay-what-you-can run of BROKE-OLOGY in the winter of 2011 and promoting it specifically to low-income neighborhood residents and participants of community partner organizations.
At the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis, Latin orchestras Charanga Tropical and Tropical Zone Orchestra will perform two concerts, introducing a diverse audinence to Latin music during FLOW.
Expand the Stories project for English Language Learner students, writing and performing their migration stories, to three additional public schools in St. Paul and Minneapolis, providing more arts learning opportunities to students who face barriers to participation.
The Play in the Park project will bring to Red Wing the Live Action Set Minneapolis theater group's production of, The 7-Shot Symphony, including a youth workshop and after-production.
Rhythmic Circus Productions (RCP) aims to present performances and educational outreach to seven communities throughout greater Minnesota, who have sought out RCP specifically based on its reputation, myriad of performing arts and creativity represented, and innovative and energetic learning opportunities.
Rose Ensemble will present an eight city tour of, Songs of Temperance and Temptation: 100 Years of Restraint and Revelry in Minnesota, with concerts/pre-concert discussions/research and choral music workshops.
The Rose Ensemble will significantly expand the scope and depth of its annual greater Minnesota tour by bringing in-school workshops, adult arts learning experiences, and affordable concerts of medieval and Renaissance music to six old and new touring communities.
The Saint Paul Community Youth Arts Project will dramatically increase Saint Paul Parks and Recreations ability to use its many community spaces to engage Saint Paul at-risk youth in grades K-12 in high-quality arts learning opportunities during out-of-school time hours.
The Minnesota Teen Artist Exhibition Program (MTAEP) will allow Soo to reach out to teen artists, an under- represented group in our programming, and present their contributions to the public.
Aronson will collaborate with eleven presenters to bring puppetry performances and learning experiences to suburban, rural and urban family audiences across Minnesota, expanding on the work of her 2010 Arts Tour grant.
In 2011, she will tour (as Z Puppets Rosenschnoz) to Duluth Children's Museum, Mankato's Children's Museum, and Austin's Paramount Theatre. Throughout the year, she will present a total of 30 performances and 60 hours of arts education experiences in nearby communities.
Son del Sur performers Nicolas Carter and Mauricio Sanchez will collaborate with host organizations in Cold Spring, Moorhead, Red Wing, and Worthington to offer engaging performances that inspire an appreciation of Latin America’s rich musical heritage and promotes cultural understanding.
Linda Chatterton will work on a performing/educational project within three communities: Bemidji, Willmar, and Northfield. Each community will have her give a recital, master class, and presentation on overcoming performance anxiety. All three will be open to the public.
This project will bring the multi-media show, The Mushroom Picker, about an unlikely World War II hero from a small Midwestern town to the following Minnesota towns: Warroad, Roseau, Lake Bronson, Stephen, Perham, Detroit Lakes, and Grand Rapids.
Gao Hong will conduct two residency programs within the Northfield, Minnesota community. One will be a ten-day school residency for fifth graders at Greenvale Park Elementary School. The second will be a twelve-day residency with the Northfield Youth Choir's Anima Choir.
Herrera will perform Latin and Cuban jazz concerts and classes with his trio at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids, the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts series in Pequot Lakes, and at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University in Collegeville.
In her film, Woven from the Land, diverse women talk about the prairie, loss of rural culture, and connection to land. Screened primarily in rural communities, post-screening discussions will encourage dialogue about the history of land, racism, and healing.
