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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. Read More
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- Website: http://unitsouzou.com/
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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. Read More
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- Website: www.UPtheater.org
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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. Read More
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- Website: www.uptheater.org
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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. Read More
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- Website: www.emilieupczak.com
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Two and Twenty Troubles
Victor, Ilyukhin
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
A documentary about performers with disabilities trying to make it in New York City. Read More
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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. Read More
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- Website: www.victoryhallopera.org
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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. Read More
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- Website: https://sites.google.com/site/videotelling/gallery/2011
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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. Read More
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- Website: vivianhua.com
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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. Read More
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- Website: http://www.voyagetheatercompany.org
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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 Read More
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- Website: http://www.vsartsky.org