Grants and Opportunities

Auditions for Tellabration! Evening Concert
on theme of River Journeys

For info on how to schedule an audition, visit Northstar’s Tellabration! Evening Concert page.

Call for Presenters!
Tellabration!™ 2010
Sept. 15 deadline

Northstar Storytelling League is seeking quality workshops to offer to our members and the general community at Tellabration! 2010 on Saturday, November 27, 2010. For guidelines and to download an application, visit our Tellabration! workshops page.

Call for Performance Hall Artists
Tellabration! 2010
Auditions/submission deadline:
Wednesday, September 22
location: TBA

We are holding auditions for Tellabration! performance hall tellers — which this year will be a paid position. Those who can’t audition in person are invited to send in a recording by the audition deadline. For details, visit the Tellabration! performance hall page.

Tellers Needed for P.J. Stories’ Sixth Year
First Thursday of the month from 6:30-7:30
Coffee Grounds Coffee Shop

Do you need a venue for telling stories to children? P.J. Stories is Northstar’s monthly venue for children, we are entering our sixth year of great children’s storytelling at the Coffee Grounds Coffee Shop. If you are interested in telling at P.J. Stories this coming season contact Pam Schweitzer at pls2009@live.com. This event is a volunteer event with tellers receiving tips only.

J.J. Reneaux Mentorship Award
Deadline: October 15

Open only to members of the National Storytelling Network.

The Mentorship Grant awards $1,250 for a gifted younger teller (18-30 years of age) to work with a seasoned teller as mentor. The grant provides $500 to the applicant for expenses related to the plan of work with the mentor (travel, lodging, additional fees, etc.), and $750 to a well-respected, seasoned storyteller who will serve as mentor to the applicant during the grant year by providing individual coaching sessions and/or appropriate workshops. Grant funds are for the development of performance skills, and should not be applied to research, marketing, promotional materials, recordings, props, costumes, etc. Complete details about the application process and the application are available at http://www.storynet.org/programs/grants/reneaux-mentorship.html

The application deadline is Friday October 15, 2010.

St. Croix Story Slams
September 23-26

Move over Moth and Windy City. We’re Taking It to the River.

You get to tell your original, personal story at any of the three venues below.

The topic: The Power of Place.

Five minute time limit. A $50 gift certificate for food or drinks to the winner at each qualifying location. Finalists move on to a Sunday evening slam-off at the Festival Theatre in St. Croix Falls. $100 cash prize to Sunday’s winner. For more information go: www.artreachstcroix.org.

Pick your St. Croix Stage—

Thursday, September 23rd, 8:00pm
The Freight House
Stillwater
$50 Prize

Friday, September 24th, 7:30pm
Tippy Canoes
Osceola
$50 Prize

Friday, September 24th, 8:00pm
Green Mill
Hastings
$50 Prize

Winners Show Down—
The winners from the bars go to the boat

Sunday Evening, 9/26, 6:30pm
Aboard the Taylors Falls Princess paddleboat
$100 Prize

NALAC Fund For The Arts (NFA)
Application deadline: Sept 24, 2010

Launched in 2005 by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture with major support from the Ford Foundation, the NALAC Fund for the Arts provides financial resources to strengthen Latino arts organizations and to support Latino artists in the creation of their work. NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA). More info on grant available at NALAC grants page.

Volunteer Opportunity for Storytellers
Village Farmer’s Market of St. Anthony
July 12 through Oct 11

The Village Farmer’s Market of St. Anthony (www.thevillagefarmersmarket.org) is looking for volunteer storytellers who would like to entertain our customers at the farmer’s market. We are open Mondays 3-7PM. July 12 thru Oct 11th (except Labor Day).  Performers can sell CD’s, distribute business cards and brochures and have a tip jar. To volunteer, contact Wendy Heubner, Market Manager, at admin@thevillagefarmersmarket.org or by phone at 612-466-1046. If you go,we would be happy to provide Northstar brochures for you to distribute as well. Please send an email request to info@northstarstorytelling.org and let us know how many you would like – or talk to any board member.

Attention: Artists, Authors, Instructors, Performers and Arts Organizations:

The state library system has set up a way for you to get onto a roster as a possible partner for local libraries to do programs and events with their new legacy funds. Sign up to be in their database by going to: www.mnlegacygrant.org. Click on the link that says “Click Here For Submission Form.” You can fill out a form to inform them what you can offer, your posting will be reviewed and hopefully approved by a regional library person, and then you will be in the database where local libraries will go to find people and organizations to hire with their legacy funds. NOTE: The more information you provide when you sign up, the more likely you will get hired. Make sure to include your prices (and make sure your prices are high enough to cover your costs!). Make sure also to include your website address, if you have one.

This information comes from Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA), which has a list of various access points for Arts and Cultural Heritage resources on their website. Visit http://www.mncitizensforthearts.org/news/amendment-funds/othergrants for a listing of opportunities.

Telling Opportunity:
La Crosse Storytelling Festival
September 10 – 11, 2010

Special notice for Northlands members:
The La Crosse Storytelling Festival is looking for regional tellers who would like to share a story (about 10 minutes in length) at our festival. These would be NON PAID performances but a chance to tell at a popular festival. The stories would either be at an afternoon segment called Wisconsin Stories (working title) or at the evening cabaret between the featured talent, Kevin Kling and Kevin McMullin. If you would be interested please contact Terry Visger at talesbyterry@aol.com with information about your story, experience, and references.

Call for performers

Nadine Sehnert is looking for eight 10-15 min high quality performances for cabarets on Sept 21, Nov 8.  Performances can be used to promote upcoming events. All acts will be considered – Dance, Music, Theatre, Storytelling, Comedy, Spoken Word, Poetry, Film & Video. For more information contact Nadine at nadine@nadinesehnert.com or 612-207-6718.

Artist Opportunity
The Catalyst Series
Intermedia Arts
2010 Call for Proposals

Intermedia Arts is seeking proposals for the Catalyst Series, a new program dedicated to collaborating with and providing support for artists, arts groups and organizations working as catalysts for change in their communities. The Catalyst Series is designed to engage audiences by provoking new performing, visual, literary, multimedia and film presentations that spark dialogue and inspire social change.

For program details or to download an application, click here.