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The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra is thrilled to bring internationally renowned violinist and educator Dmitri Berlinsky to our northern Michigan community. This collaboration will provide a world-class artistic experience for our audiences and inspiring opportunity for our musicians, while advancing GLCO's mission and contributing to a more thriving and culturally enriched community.

Mackinac Arts Council will host a Latin Celebration concert to deepen engagement in the arts among some 20% of Mackinac Island, MI seasonal summer employees who identify as having a Latin cultural heritage & are underserved in the arts. With this grant, MAC will hire a Latin musician(s) who will offer artist talk/back, performance & cultural education at a free & accessible community hall event.

This hands-on art project is a multi-part series that involves engagement between four professional artists and school-age children. The four workshops will involve students in the artistic process and enhance students' school curriculum, introduce students to artistic professions, techniques and art critique. They also have the goal to lower cultural barriers to entering and enjoying art spaces.

Cincinnati Youth Choir has provided transformative choral arts experiences in a welcoming space for 31 years. Acclaimed choral conductor and pedagogue Dr. Anthony Trecek-King will serve as artist-in-residence for our 32nd season, helping create new artistic goals, creative performances, collaborations, and unique programming that will launch our multiple programs into the future of choral music.

Summermusik (Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra) presents Navajo pianist and Cincinnati native Connor Chee (www.connorchee.com) for a festival highlighting the importance of water to Indigenous cultures through music and storytelling coinciding with World Water Day (March 22 annually)

Striving to provide outreach programs to our local schools and community, the Erickson Center for the Arts will host "The Spirit of Harriet Tubman" featuring Leslie McCurdy. Using words said to have been Harriet Tubman¹s own, Leslie McCurdy recreates both familiar stories and some rarely told in a passionate portrayal of Harriet Tubman's entire life, the famous Underground Railroad conductor.

SPACE and Mechanic's Hall will host interdisciplinary programming, reading groups, and workshops around Ilya Kaminsky's book of poems Deaf Republic, in conjunction with a variety of community partners. This series will explore themes of community loss, accessibility, silence as resistance, love in the face of violence and war, and artists exploring deafness and tinnitus.

RCCA brings together campus and public audiences for engagement with The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a novel that resonates with the RCCA community and mission. Activities for English and Spanish-speaking readers includes discussions, lectures, interactive art installation, writing workshops, teaching artist residencies in schools and centers, storytelling with young companion books.

Peter White Public Library's NEA Big Read --based on Roz Chast's "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?"--consists of community-wide events focused on the people who shape/have shaped/will shape WHERE WE LIVE. Emphasizing inter-generational communication, our diverse programming encourages dialogue and interaction between young and old through art, writing, interview, and performance.

The Iowa City NEA Big Read is the premier program associated with the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s exhibition on the Black Midwest, funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” together with the exhibition, brings the Iowa City community together to explore narratives of recovery, reproduction, and creation as they pertain to the Black Midwest.