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Welcome to the City of Minneapolis Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (ACCE) newsletter. Here you will find information on program and partner related news and updates, opportunities, events and special announcements.
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Creative Response Fund Grantee Spotlight:
Expressions of Everyday Royalty Light up a Fashion Runway at George Floyd Square
 The Rock Royalty Experience community members walk the runway in Tamiko French functional fashions and custom designed crowns. Photo by Bruce Williams.
Tamiko French, a 2021 Creative Response Fund recipient speaks to her own brand of regal-ness and healing vibrations in her production of “The Rock Royalty Experience.”
Synergizing earth science, ancestral alternative healing practices and functional fashion, Tamiko presented a high energy runway-style fashion show at George Floyd Square and showcased her own welded, fire-created and hand wrapped crowns, representing in her words, “grace and regal-ness under fire.”
Read more here about Tamiko French's engagement with folks who had been working at George Floyd square and giving tirelessly back to the community along with supporters sharing space and solidarity with the corridor.
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants: Cycle 11 Now Open
 Cycle 11 of the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program is now open!
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent, unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies experienced by artists in need who are practicing in the disciplines of visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, or choreography. Artists of color, artists with disabilities, and artists living outside of the East and West coasts are encouraged to apply.
This program is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
Learn more here.
Cycle 11 applications due February 7, 2022 – for emergencies occurring June 1, 2021 and later.
Springboard for the Arts: Personal Emergency Relief Fund Applications Now Open
 The Personal Emergency Relief Fund is a longstanding program of Springboard for the Arts, offering artists and creative workers of all disciplines in Minnesota support of $500 in an emergency.
Springboard has a limited amount of funding this round, and expect to fund approximately 120 applicants. Applicants will be notified of selection via email by Monday, February 21, 2022.
Learn more and apply here.
New applications will be accepted until Friday, January 28, 2022.
 Community members are welcome to reserve virtual 'Office Hour' time with the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy team.
Join Gulgun Kayim, Director of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy on Fridays from 9:00 - 10:30 am, and Brenda Kayzar, owner of Urbane DrK Consulting on Wednesdays from 1:00 - 2:30 pm for virtual community office hours.
Reservations are necessary! Upcoming dates and contact information below:
For meetings with Gülgün Kayim: e-mail Gulgun.Kayim@minneapolismn.gov to notify that you will be attending and call: 612-710-2232 on Friday, Jan 28th at your confirmed time between 9:00 -10:30 am.
For meetings with Brenda Kayzar: e-mail urbanedrk@gmail.com to notify that you will be attending and call: 612-730-7913 on Wednesday, February 2nd at your confirmed time between 1:00 - 2:30pm.
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