Fiscal Year: 2025

OhioDance (OD) will hold its annual statewide festival, Friday, April 25-Sunday, April 27, 2025 at, and cosponsored by, The Ohio State University Department of Dance in Columbus. The festival hires over 130 artists, highlights 16 professional performances, films, as well as over 35 dance sessions and demonstrations; and 50% of the performing artists hired are from marginalized communities.

Disability artist and activist Gaelynn Lea will present public performances of her original songs, performing alongside Twin Cities storyteller and poet Kevin Kling, in a program that celebrates the wisdom and wit inherent in Disability Culture. Gaelynn also will conduct a professional development workshop session for the Disabled artists from the Interact Center for Performing Arts .

Highlighting music of the Caribbean, ORMACO's fall 2024 World Tour of Music Residency will provide hands-on experience for incarcerated youth, concerts in rural schools and community homes, and culminate in a concert that is open to the public.

"Honey for the Heart", an annual community art project, transforms the City of Athens’ Halloween season to an all-inclusive family and community-friendly event. Passion Works seeks support for a new production coordinator to lead and guide student groups and community volunteers in the creation of masks, costumes and large-scale puppets for the 13th annual artmaking project and parade.

Art in the Trees highlights Palmer Park's Earth Day Celebration & Cleanup with art installations and music throughout Palmer Park 70-acre Old Growth Forest's ADA accessible pathways. The event entices visitors of all ages to create artwork, pick up trash, and creatively encourage park pride as they discover surprises: large-scale sculptures, tiny Aziza Fairy doors and unusual musical instruments.

The Philharmonic Orchestra provides a venue for a wide range "orchestral voices" by supporting works by contemporary composers of orchestral works. This composer residency will introduce Michigan-based trans classical composer Jordan Jinsoko to Indianapolis through workshops and an evening conversation in partnership with Trinity Haven, a service provider for young LGBTQ+ adults.

Play House Laboratories (PHL) will present a new work by choreographer and composer Leyya Mona Tawil - "Malayeen Voices" - a series of historic and ‘future’ folksongs from Syria and Palestine. "Malayeen Voices" uses sound art and physical performance for an interactive work that explores the diasporic experience through the lens of Tawil's background as a Syrian, Palestinian, and American artist.

The Great Lakes Hula Retreat will once again be providing an opportunity for local Polynesian dance and cultural arts students to learn directly from Hawaii based Kumu Hula (master instructors) during a full weekend of classes and workshops.

We are seeking funding to support the creation of "Rodeo Reimagined", taking Agnes deMille's "Rodeo" and making it the first classic masterpiece to be reimagined for a physically integrated company composed of dancers with and without disabilities.

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble’s Body Passages residency program will unite 10 dance, visual, theatre, and poetry activist artists and give space for creating new individual and collaborative works. Artists will have professional development opportunities to learn from each other, lead master classes, and present their works in a final performance and visual art gallery.