Intermedia Arts

Creative Leadership

SASE Jerome Grants for Emerging Minnesota Writers

SASE Jerome Grants for Writers

Intermedia Arts’ annual SASE/Jerome grant program awards grants of up to $5,000 to emerging Minnesota writers. We define an emerging writer as a writer whose work demonstrates a sustained level of accomplishment and commitment, but who has not yet received recognition/ acknowledgement as an established creator from fellow writers and/or other arts professionals.

VERVE Grants for Spoken Word Poets

Calling all Minnesota Spoken Word Poets! Applications are now available for Intermedia Arts' 2010 VERVE grants, which awards VERVE grants of up to $3,000 to artists just like you!

Deadline Extended: February 11, 2010

The VERVE grant program is designed for emerging artists who are ready to achieve their next level of artistic success, and who are interested in developing their abilities to become artistic leaders in their communities.

Give and Take

We're excited to introduce Give & Take, a new monthly event series produced by Solutions Twin Cities and co-presented with Intermedia Arts. Built on a new model for engaging curious people and fostering stronger community links, Give & Take will disrupt the traditional dynamic of short-presentation events where "experts" speak to an audience of "lay-people" about topics selected by event producers.

Institute for Community Cultural Development

Intermedia Arts is working to relaunch the highly successful Institute for Community Cultural Development (ICCD), a leadership development program for people who work at the intersection of the arts and community development. We believe that the future health of communities demands innovative, cross-sector leadership at every level.

Arts-Based Civic Engagement

B-Girl Be

art . dance . dialogues . dj . fashion .

 film . graff . history . media .

poetry . rap . block party

B-GIRL BE: A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN HIP-HOP
2009 B-Girl Be Festival—September 17-20, 2009

Catalyst Series

The Catalyst Series is a new program dedicated to collaborating with and providing support for artists, arts groups and organizations working as catalysts for change in their communities.

Digital Media Workshops

Since opening our digital media lab and new state-of-the-art editing suite, we have been able to offer onsite and offsite digital media workshops.

Moving Lives

Intermedia Arts in partnership with The Advocates for Human Rights created The Moving Lives Speakers Bureau to foster dialogues about human rights and immigration issues in Twin Cities schools and communities through the artwork and stories of immigrant artists.

NE 2nd Avenue

Written and Performed by Teo Castellanos
March 11-13, 2010 at 8:00PM

NE 2nd Avenue is a compilation of characters that make Miami their home. A jitney (small Caribbean bus) becomes a metaphor for a journey that takes the audience through the bumpy streets of this city.

Queer Voices: A GLBT Reading Series

Intermedia Arts has partnered with Hamline University to present Queer Voices: A GLBT Reading Series. The reading features some of the finest and award-winning queer writers in the Twin Cities on a monthly basis.

Rehenes

Saturday, March 13th at 2:00 PM

The film, Rehenes, translated as Hostages in English, is a fictional movie surrounding a historic event in 1996, in which more than 500 people were taken hostage by MRTA guerrillas in the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru.

Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata: The America Project

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Saturday, October 24, 2009

Intermedia Arts is proud to have been the first national host site for The America Project: Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata, a series of community events including Art Treats lunches, citizenship dinners, a film screening, potluck dinner and community sing, all designed to inspire and ignite our passionate ideals around citizenry, civic work, and active engagement in civic life. Together we use art, music, conversation and laughter to discuss what it means to be an American today, and to dream about what it could mean in the future.

Past Programming

Explore the wide variety of Intermedia's past programming

The Arts of Community

March 19, 2010 - April 16, 2010

Sponsored and curated by SMARTS, South Minneapolis Arts Business Association, a new association of artists and arts related businesses that unite to connect, cooperate and support the arts in South Minneapolis. The focus for this first annual show is Community.

Youth Mentorship

Project Girl

Intermedia Arts presents

PROJECT GIRL

Look Critically:: Take Action:: Ask Questions:: Be Real

A day camp for girls ages 10-18
with award winning artists!
June 21 - 24, 2010

Clear skin. White teeth. Red lips. Painted toenails. Flawless bodies ... Is this even real? What are girls supposed to look like.

The G.A.M.E.

Graffiti Art Mentoring & Education
The G.A.M.E. is a structured aerosol/graffiti artist-based program designed to mentor and educate youth and young adult artists on the aerosol/graffiti art culture, history and techniques by allowing them the opportunity to create full-scale murals. Our goal is to bring positive recognition and increase respect for the artists and the culture of the art form, with the hope of breaking down some of the stereotypical barriers within the community that prohibit the acceptance of legal aerosol/graffiti art murals.

WINGS

S.A.S.E. Wings is an innovative mentoring program designed for avid young writers, ages 9-19, desiring more support and guidance than is provided in the traditional school setting. Each participant is matched with an artistic mentor from the creative writing MFA and PhD programs of Hamline University and the University of Minnesota. The mission of Wings is to make the literary arts accessible to a culturally and socio-economically diverse group of young writers eager for artistic development.

Young Writers

Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month
Ages 13-19
$3 Suggested Donation

Young Writers is the place for youth! A twice-monthly gathering of aspiring young poets, novelists, fiction writers, essayists and more. We laugh, work, create, and grow together in a community workshop setting - come check it out! (No registration necessary; this is an ongoing drop-in group). Facilitated by Daniel Muro LaMere.

Youth Media Programs (PCTV)

Through their involvement with PCTV, participants develop skills in media literacy, video production and design, including techniques in camera operation, sound, lighting, and editing. They also gain abilities in photography and web design and layout. Simultaneously, students begin strengthening community ties and educating others on important issues.