Spirited Impact Campaign aims to use the feature documentary Spirited as an artistic tool to gather, connect, and build community while educating about Hmong issues, culture and indigenous spiritual practices. Learn more at the project’s website.
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Once Removed aims to listen as LGBTQ people from the Upper Midwest talk about family, both The families that made us and families we make.
Under the Lex aims to support and serve artists that are beginning and mid-level musicians that are underserved and pay them a generous rate that will help them in their careers and wages. The performance series also benefits the immediate community and neighborhood in the area, along with anyone that wishes to attend these events.
CASTLES aims to produce a festival that can connect artists and audience to the grassroots community groups that hold up our neighborhoods, meanwhile celebrating and encouraging awareness of our collective power.
Comedy Suitcase aims to serve as a Twin Cities-based theatrical production company dedicated to creating live comedy for all-ages.
The Red Light House aims to serve as a queer collective providing a versatile and intimate arts space out of a home in North Minneapolis. Their unique space serves as a platform for dreamers and doers looking to bring their ideas to life.
The Mama Project aims to develop a celebration and exploration of motherhood in stories and movement. Moms meet monthly to share memories and experiences with an eye toward building community and support for all. The culmination will be a performance inspired and informed by these gatherings.
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.
Queer Voices – Minnesota aims to celebrate and promote queer writers and queer literature. They do this through public readings featuring members of the LGBTQIA+ community, studying queer writers at workshops reaching the queer community, and holding writing circles for queer writers to generate work.
Anda Flamenco Company & School aims to share the beauty of the passionate tradition of authentic Spanish flamenco with diverse Minnesota audiences.
Archives on Screens, Twin Cities aims to bring rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to movie screens in the Twin Cities.
Supermoon Theater aims to create deeply sincere, joyful, and cathartic performances that seek to bind community and provide spaces for active reflection on our individual selves, our species, and our place in the cosmos.
1 Earth United aims to inspire and motivate connections among different cultures. They do this through the universal healing power of the arts, music and dance connecting the right Indigenous artists with the right venue.
BuckSlam MN aims to facilitate regular poetry slams, readings, and performances in and around the Twin Cities. They believe poetry is a necessary tool of collective liberation and seek to empower a diverse community of spoken word poets by making the art form welcoming, safe, and accessible for all.
Minneapolis Choir Co-Op aims to serve as a performing arts organization that strives to create opportunities for musicians to practice their craft by connecting budding composers, conductors, and instrumentalists with ensemble singers. Learn more at the organization’s website.
The Divine Comedy Ballet aims to create full-length ballets that challenge typical perceptions of classical ballet by collaborating with unconventional artists and weaving together contemporary and modern influences to draw out deep human emotions that connect with and attract new audiences to ballet and inspire other artists to embark on cross-disciplinary journeys.
Maine Prairie Studio aims to nurture creativity and elevate the ceramic arts through community education for rural Minnesotans. Additionally, they support local, regional and national artists through assistantships, retreats and residencies.
Kith + Kin Chorus aims to build community, spread joy and give in service of others through harmony.
Spiral Theater aims to produce seriously silly shows that celebrate our most absurd selves, the wild possibilities of language, and the creative spirit of audiences and artists.
High on Life Healing Music Festival aims to produce a music festival that addresses mental health issues openly and promotes conversations about mental well- being, breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health in the city.