Congressional District: 7

Serena Elston is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award is designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work...

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum will partner with local and regional partners to offer diverse programming for audiences of all ages inspired by The Cold Millions. In collaboration with author Jess Walter we will center multiple reading, writing and learning activities on the topics of history, landscape, industry, and the importance of storytelling within our society.

Touchstone Theatre will highlight accessibility awareness through a series of programs focused around “Sitting Pretty” by Rebekah Taussig. All members of our community will be welcomed into programming, which will take place over seven months in partnership with the Bethlehem Area Public Library, as well as local artists and accessibility-centric organizations.

New York Irish Center will partner with 10 organizations, including Hunter's Point Library, to explore Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake.” Activities include 19 events; 18 presenters, musicians, writers, and other talent (3 at more than 1 event); and distribution of 690 books. From Sept. 2024 - June 2025. Includes five national podcasts, and recording and uploading select events on social media.

Cirque visionary Shana Carroll conceived and directs DUEL REALITY, an acrobatic adaptation of ROMEO AND JULIET. Performed by Montreal-based The 7 Fingers, this production takes the conflict at the heart of ROMEO AND JULIET and sets it in a sports arena. The heightened physicality and emotion of the setting modernizes the production and makes it more accessible to a wide array of audiences.

The PSF Linny Fowler WillPower Tour is a fully professional touring production to schools of a Shakespeare play produced with full set, costume and sound designs. The core purpose of WillPower is to turn on young minds to the power of Shakespeare's language through live performance and workshops. PSF's summer season will also feature live professional performances of Shakespeare's works.

ASP will work with 500 students to explore A Midsummer Night's Dream, tackling language, character, and themes and connecting them to our current moment via both the text and casting. Schools will receive 1-2 workshops or an extended residency; complimentary tickets to a student matinee with a post-show discussion; a pre-show study guide; and an invitation for staff to ASP’s Teacher Institute.

Sixty Inches From Center will launch a Midwest Writers Residency, centering two writers who reside in or lived a significant portion of their lives in Midwest cities outside Chicago. They will publish writings that highlight pressing cultural issues facing artists and arts workers and how that plays out in their city and regionally. Sixty will also host a public-facing virtual conversation with the writers to facilitate cross-regional conversations.

Residents of Marathon County are familiar with the music of the Hmong and of North India from various events. However, both musical traditions are not well understood. Each concert in...

Philadelphia Community Farm will bring Detroit-based theatre company, The Hinterlands, to Osceola, WI for three performances of “Will You Miss Me?” – an outdoor theatre piece that blends Appalachian songs...