Grantees All Genres

Constant State of Otherness

Unit Souzou

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Constant State of Otherness is a multi-layered performance weaving taiko, Japanese folk dance, and storytelling, revealing the impact of othering and alienation. Unit Souzou excavates their personal stories to fractally unfold and offer an invitation to find our shared longing to belong.

September Twelfth (2014)

Up Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A workshop and performance of the new play by Rich Rubin in which the widow of a firefighter is challenged when she attempts to move on from the shadow of her martyred husband.

Detained

UP Theater Company, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

In a refugee detention center deep in the heart of Texas, two teens from different lands form a bond to help each other fight off dangers from within its walls - and without.

SILT

Upczak, Emilie

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

A Native botanist, grieving the death of a beloved aunt, travels alone to northern Mexico, where she is nourished by images of the last trip they took together traversing the Colorado River.

Two and Twenty Troubles

Victor, Ilyukhin

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A documentary about performers with disabilities trying to make it in New York City.

UNSUNG

Victory Hall Opera

Year Grant Awarded: 2020

An opera film, featuring Verdi's "La Traviata". The cast of a COVID-cancelled opera decide the show must go on. 5 singers tell the true story of life during the pandemic, and question everything as they face an uncertain future. Directed by Miriam Gordon-Stewart. Conducted by Kathleen Kelly.

Video-Telling Workshop: Health Care Reform

Video-Telling Workshop

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

The workshop is an free video production course available to graduates of the Odyssey Project (http://www.prairie.org/odysseyproject). This year, the participants created two short documentary videos to speak about health care reform.

Searching Skies

Vivian Hua 華婷婷

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

When a Syrian refugee family is invited to a Christian family's house for Christmas dinner, they are caught between opposing viewpoints for and against their presence⁠—until an unexpected event suddenly occurs.

MY POOR MARAT (МОЙ БЕДНЫЙ МАРАТ)

Voyage Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

As a featured event of Russian-American History Month, Voyage Theater Company paid tribute to the survivors of the Siege of Leningrad in a rare bilingual production of MY POOR MARAT (МОЙ БЕДНЫЙ МАРАТ) by esteemed Russian playwright Aleksei Arbuzov.

VSA Kentucky Registry Artists Traveling Exhibition

VSA Kentucky

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Vision, Strength and Artistic Expression: VSA Kentucky Registry Artists Traveling Exhibition is a selection of paintings, drawings and prints created by adult artists with disabilities listed on our on-line directory, traveling to locations statewide

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