Music:
· Tiempo Libre
· Angélique Kidjo
· Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience

Dance:
· Bridgman/Packer Dance
· CONTRA-TIEMPO
· Beijing Dance/LDTX
· TU Dance

Impact

Terrance Simien and band members engaged with students and faculty at all three of the Ordway's Campus Connections Partners—Macalester College, Metropolitan State University and the University of Saint Thomas—to give lecture/demonstrations on their musical heritage for classes and student groups. The Campus Connections program, designed to increase participation from college students by making curricular connections to performances and providing programming on college campuses, is funded in part through The Wallace Foundation Excellence Award.

CONTRA-TIEMPO Artistic Director Ana María Alvarez and company members engaged extensively within our community by conducting several master classes for K-12 and college students and a workshop with students from El Arco Iris and their families.

The Ordway commissioned Uri Sands of TU Dance to create a new work inspired by the paintings of former professional football player Ernie Barnes. With Love premiered at the Ordway in May 2011 to a sold-out house, culminating extensive education and community engagement activities that were designed and implemented in collaboration with TU Dance. The project won a Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation in Chicago.

Partnerships

Through the TU Dance commission and accompanying community engagement, the Ordway built a significant partnership with a local dance company that will last beyond the season. This partnership was particularly special because several dance students from the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists, of which Ordway is the authorizer, and the University of Minnesota danced with the company.

Target has been a long-term partner with the Ordway and, as title sponsor of the World Music and Dance Series, enables us to bring high-quality emerging and established artists to Saint Paul from around the world. Arts Midwest gave additional support for the engagement of BeijingDance/ LDTX, which was vital for a company traveling from across the world.

The Ordway brought a wealth of art to downtown Saint Paul again with the annual Flint Hills International Children's Festival. Performances by local, regional and the following international companies made the event artistically and culturally diverse:

• Corbian Visual Arts and Dance, performing Corbian the Dinosaur
• Puppet State Theatre Company, performing The Man Who Planted Trees
• Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Dance Ensemble
• Dala, a musical duo from Canada
• Project Bandaloop

Impact

Festival impact is measured in two ways: one is the number of people who enjoy the presentation of performing and visual art for one very special week in downtown Saint Paul. The other—almost immeasurable—impact is the transformational power of actively creating artwork through pre-Festival residencies, master classes with visiting artists, workshops with regional experts, or in tents or on stages of the Festival itself.

The Festival saw increased attendance in 2011; more than 50,000 children, families and educators attended performances and workshops inside the Ordway and in Rice Park, Landmark Center and Landmark Plaza. This year's Festival impact increased dramatically with downtown workers participating in Festival activities during the weekdays, as well as returning with their children on the weekend. Project Bandaloop, performing aerial dances from the walls of the Lawson Building, helped attract people to the Festival and to downtown Saint Paul. The ARTwalk exhibit opened three weeks prior to the Festival itself with a reception attended by more than 400 young artists and their families ready to celebrate and view our "urban gallery" of windows donated by downtown businesses.

The Discovery Garden, an outdoor landscape and art installation in Hamm Plaza, was designed by Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Arts and Gardens Coordinator Mark Granlund and Lead Landscaper for downtown gardens Angela Koebler. The garden featured discovery boxes, a playhouse, a 30-foot-tall flower pinwheel, and plenty of flowers and plants to transform the urban landscape. In addition, 35 students from Intermediate District 287 South Education Center in Richfield worked with sculptor and teaching artist Sara Hansen to create metal sculptural elements for the garden. The art created by these young people focused on all-sensory access to public art, with the intention of reaching a broader patron base through the Festival.

The Festival has a great impact on the thousands of students who attend during the school week, aided by the ticket and bus subsidies that the Ordway provides. One teacher wrote about her class's visit to the Festival, "When I asked the kids what their favorite part of the day was they said, 'All of it!' One boy on the way to the bus said, 'Thanks Ordway for a great day!' [We] appreciate the opportunities the Flint Hills [International Children's] Festival provides for our children. Thanks."

PARTNERSHIPS

Flint Hills Resources, as title sponsor, has helped to implement the Festival each year since 2001. Not just a funding partner, Flint Hills is a planning and implementation partner whose employees help the event happen each year in a nine-month-long process.

Our many Festival funders' unique commitment encourages artistic expression and joyous participation for all attendees.

Our Education Partners, major and grassroots cultural organizations in the Twin Cities, also provide hands-on art-making activities in Rice Park, Landmark Plaza and Hamm Plaza, allowing children to put their imaginations to work.

Local and regional artists make the Festival unique. Performances pop up in the parks with dancers, musicians, acrobats, jugglers, stilt walkers, face painters, and henna artists—both adults and children—contributing to the diversity and artistry of the Festival.

Young people participate in arts residencies well before the Festival takes place. They work with professional teaching artists in community centers in Saint Paul to create costumes and floats for the ARTmoves Parade. Recreation and community center sites included Hallie Q. Brown, Scheffer, West 7th, Merrick, Hancock, Northdale, Rice Street, Duluth and Case, Battle Creek, and the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent.

The Festival could not happen without the City of Saint Paul. The City believes in the Festival and the importance of creating access to the arts. More specifically, the City partners with the Ordway to help create the ARTgarden each year, transforming Hamm Plaza into a rainbow of flowers and trees; after the Festival, all plants are donated to the City as part of the Blooming Saint Paul beautification project.

Education and Community Engagement programs inspire more than 56,000 students of all ages each year. The Ordway welcomes K-12 public, private, charter, and homeschools to Performing Arts Classrooms and Festival daytime matinees; additional work with schools, community centers and individuals in workshops, residencies and master classes happens throughout the year.

Impact

The 2010-2011 school year saw the number of K-12 students engaged through the Ordway's programming increase. Also, since dance is the least represented art form in most schools' curricula, our education staff created a special section entitled "About Dance" to include in all study guides for dance performances that students experience. The section includes vocabulary, history and in-class activities to help students understand and engage in dance.

The Ordway acknowledges the important role that educators and administrators play in connecting arts experiences with learners of all ages. We honor our partners in this work through an annual reception and awards ceremony in the categories of Educational Service, Vision, Philanthropy, and Commitment. More than 200 educators and their guests celebrated with us, recognizing their own contributions as well as the work of their colleagues.

This year, the Ordway honored Barbara Cox of Perpich Center for Arts Education, Thomas K. Gale, Mary Ann Rogers of Washington Technology Magnet School, Scott Cleland (posthumously), and Minnesota voters for the passage of the Legacy Amendment.

Partnerships

Education at Ordway continues to partner with Minneapolis and Saint Paul Public Schools, the two largest school districts involved in the Ordway's programming, in part through the Partners in Education program at the Kennedy Center. The Ordway also serves as authorizer for the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and engages its students in master classes and workshops throughout the season. Perpich Center for Arts Education has been a valuable partner in the Dance to Learn arts integration program for four years. Peer coaches who work with teachers, and teaching artists who work with students creating art themselves, are also essential to our educational goals. Teaching artists Karla Nweje and Leah Nelson shared their original choreography with more than 300 students and teachers involved in Dance to Learn this year as a kick-off to the program.

The Ordway partners with three Saint Paul institutions of higher learning as part of the Campus Connections program: Macalester College, Metropolitan State University and the University of Saint Thomas. The program is designed to build connections between the Ordway and Twin Cities college communities, providing opportunities for young adults to connect with the arts community in hopes of inspiring students to fully pursue their artistic interests and to encourage them to make the performing arts an important part of their lives.

Each year, Ordway Circle of Stars (OCOS), the volunteer fundraising arm of the Ordway, helps to keep the Ordway's programming vital through fun and sophisticated fundraising events. The largest fundraising event is the annual Ordway Circle of Stars Gala. In 2010, the Gala included an exclusive dress rehearsal of the Ordway's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Impact

The Ordway Circle of Stars helps to support the Ordway's ticket and bus subsidies for K-12 school groups. Since its inception 16 years ago, OCOS and the Gala have helped to raise more than $4 million for the Ordway's education programs.

Partnerships

Months before each Gala, OCOS board members contact potential corporate sponsors and individual donors who support the mission of the Ordway and OCOS. They help to make the Gala happen and ensure that the Ordway's educational programs continue. Travelers, Best Buy, Comcast, R. F. Moeller Jeweler, Larson King LLP, 3M, Cargill, Wells Fargo, Securian Financial Group, and Ecolab were top corporate sponsors in 2010 that helped to make the Gala a Technicolor success.

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