Great Lakes Carnival aims to develop a multimodal, multidisciplinary storytelling migration that aims to connect people to the Great Lakes waters; celebrate Great Lakes peoples, cultures, and histories; and imagine livable futures of ecological respect and reciprocity for the entire basin.
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Here to Help Cards aims to create and provide communication decks for those with PTSD and other mental health issues to domestic violence survivors, veterans, homeless, foster care, and others who may need it.
The Island of Discarded Women Live Show & Podcast aims to enlighten and inspire audiences to challenge entrenched gender and societal norms while celebrating victories won by women and girls. They do this by providing a safe platform for a diverse collection of female artists, activists and leaders in our community, both urban and rural, to share publicly their deeply personal stories and unique lived experiences through storytelling, original music, satirical commentary and candid conversation.
Late Night Copies aims to cultivate queer and trans independent print culture locally & regionally by providing affordable equipment access, serving as a steward of the Midwest Zine Archive Project, and organizing the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest. They distribute artist publications about Midwestern LGBTQ history to a national audience.
Celtic-Balkan Fusion Project aims to present Celtic (Highland) and Balkan (Bulgarian) folk music and folk dance, both separately and in a unique fusion, as performed by Balkan vocal and instrumental ensembles, a Highland piper, and Balkan, Highland, and modern dancers to build cross-cultural appreciation and goodwill.
Memory, Movement, Montage aims to build an inclusive platform for diverse perspectives on migration and creating an innovative curriculum for global engagement.
Banana Leaf Collective aims to serve as a Twin Cities- based community exploring the intersection of storytelling; mutual aid practices; and cultural work as a means of combating systems of oppression.
SPEAK MPLS aims to reimagine the future of media by activating community connections and creative opportunities to amplify the voices of their neighbors
EcosystemX aims to advocate for equitable planning and design solutions that uplift, develop, preserve, and sustain Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities in their region and beyond.
All of the Above aims to create trans-disciplinary arts experiences that allow alternative worlds of belonging to emerge. They center humility and learning, devotion to craft, and relationship to the infinite to call forth a more loving world. All of the Above strives to make work that disentangles us from dominant culture in service of shared liberation and creation/imagination.
Wise, Gifted, & Black aims to use trauma informed arts intervention to amplify voices and vision of artivism, blackness, and healing with Rondo Community Elders. Art forms such as: Theatre of the Oppressed, Spoken Word, Photography, Collage and Music.
Survival System aims to explore art’s potential for healing, self-care, and community-care.
Sanguine Arts aims to support and produce experimental performance, art, and arts learning activities and provide the community with opportunities to engage with new art works and artists through public events.
Tangible Collective aims to hold spaces in Minnesota that are completely devoted to Black Millennial thought and expression. This collective is building spaces where Blackness is valued, encouraged, and centered to make it tangible.
Storydance Theatre aims to creatively combine acting, storytelling, and dance to produce works that retell old tales in new and relevant ways.
Wavelets Creative aims to develop and present unique multi-disciplinary artistic experiences for a wide variety of audiences that foster new and lasting connections to the spaces and communities in which we live.
Sparkle Theatricals aims to engage artists and audiences of diverse backgrounds in inventive, curious, and fun theatrical experiences.
Grace Minnesota aims to create art to help individuals connect to their inner lives and for communities to re-imagine a vital, hopeful, peaceful, and inclusive society.
Tlalnepantla Arts aims to promote ancestral creativity through contemporary art forms that promote cultural identities and transform community.