Community Celebration of Place Receives Two Grants

Community Celebration of Place has received two grants for 2012-2013:

MRAC - Arts Learning Grant

Community Celebration of Place is the recipient of the 2012-2013 MRAC - Arts Learning Grant. Community Celebration of Place will work with 125 7th grade students at Sanford Middle School in an Elders' Wisdom, Children's Song residency. Using the stories of community elders, students will learn song writing and performance skills, and understanding about their community by integrating the arts into Social Studies. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. www.mrac.org

Office of Equity & Diversity's Mini-grant for Integrated Learning for 2012-13

Community Celebration of Place in partnership with Elizabeth Hall International and Barton Open School in Minneapolis are recipients of the Office of Equity & Diversity¹s Mini-grant for Integrated Learning for the 2012-13 school year.

Project Overview:

Celebrating the gifts of youth and elders from North Minneapolis.

Project Goals:

Goal 1: Creation of Recordings and Storybooks showcasing multiple
perspective.

Goal 2: Partner a racially isolated school from north Minneapolis with a
non-racially isolated school in south Minneapolis for integrated learning.

Goal 3: Showcase Northside Assets to the entire Minneapolis community.

These goals will be achieved by: 1) Bringing Elizabeth Hall students into a professional recording studio to record original songs written in honor of three north community elders; 2) Distributing and airing these recordings on public radio and at community events; 3) Barton Open School students in
south Minneapolis creating a story-songbook based upon the lyrics created by Elizabeth Hall students for one of their north community elders, and in turn Elizabeth Hall students creating a story-songbook based upon the lyrics created by Barton Open School for their south community elder; and 4) Showcasing these story-songbooks, sound recordings, and original works at
the Youth & Elders' Circle 2013 on May 30th at the NORTH COMMUNITY YMCA YOUTH & TEEN ENRICHMENT CENTER