Fiscal Year 2007 / Mini Grants: October
The Iowa Arts Council received 16 eligible Mini grant applications for the 2006 October round. We received a total of $17,654 in requested funds. Of those, 6 were selected for funding, totaling $7,175. Out of a possible score of 44, the highest score of those selected for funding was 36.33 and the lowest at 31.
Dan Troxell, Des Moines
Young Poets Night
$1,500
Funding will support the Young Poets Night, a poetry series with workshops for Des Moines area high school students in grades 9-12. Saturday afternoon performances will be held at Zanzibar's Coffee on Ingersoll St, DSM, allowing 10-15 students to recite poetry and read poetry they've written. Workshops at Central Library will cover poetry and performance mechanics by award-winning poets and teachers throughout Iowa.
Sons of Norway (Kong Sverre Lodge#482), Story City
Visiting Artist
(Sarah Granskou) to Story City Community and Area Schools
$1,500
Funding will allow visiting Artist, Sarah Granskou to visit Story City and teach traditional Norwegian music, poetry, rhythms and crafts to elementary music students in three area schools between 11/02/06 and 11/06/06. A community concert, workshop for children, and nursing home activities are also planned. Sarah Nagell will collaborate on the traditional Hardanger fiddle.
Shimek Elementary Before and After School Program, Iowa City
The After School Touring Puppet Troupe
$1,500
Funding will allow The Shimek Before and After School Program to
sponsor a 5 day Eulenspiegel Puppet Theater residency beginning in November
as an essential part of the Touring After School Puppet Troupe. The "TASPT"
serves interested kindergarten through sixth grade students enrolled in the
Shimek Before and After School Program.
Dave Moore, Iowa City Reaching Teachers, Students and Communties
$750
Reaching Teachers, Students and Communties
$750
This project develops the tools necessary to assist Iowa educators
with successful elementary, middle and high school assemblies and workshops
enhancing both arts and general education. IAC financial support will make
possible the creation of study guides, presentation descriptions and workshop
outlines all of which will be made available to educators electronically.
Central College, Pella
Artist in Residence: Tom Isbell
$1,500
Central College's theatre department is excited to bring noted theatre
professor, Tom Isbell to campus Nov. 30 - Dec. 2. Grant funds will allow Tom
to work with theatre students in class and teach Improvisation Theater for
Business. In addition, Tom will perform his one-man play Me & JFK. The
performances will be open to the public.
St. Pius X School, Cedar Rapids
The Cultural Kaleidoscope Irish Presentation
$425
Funding will support Dearbhail Finnegan and Robin Slater to present the "Irish
Kaleidoscope" at St. Pius X School on Friday, January 12, 2007. The Program
will consist of two assemblies and 4 workshops.