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Performing artists, creators and clowns GALEN TREUER, NOAH BREMER, MEGAN ODELL AND VANESSA VOSKUIL, Minnesota, will travel to Campinas, Brazil, to attend two weeks of intensive study with the Lume Teatro company. Coinciding with the Carnival season, Lume's intensive workshops encompass clowns, butoh, dance and theater practices. The four artists expect to be artistically and physically challenged and will return to Minnesota with new skills to enrich their art making and teaching.

PATRICE MALLARD was provided with a grant for BRIARS WILL CUT: My Mother's Line, a video documentary that tells her story as an African-American woman born in the deep South who traces her matrilineal line back five generations.

SITI COMPANY, New York City, received $10,000 in support of the 2006 Associates New Work Series. SITI is an ensemble-based theater company led by Anne Bogart. Its mission is to create bold new productions, to perform and tour those works nationally and internationally, to train together consistently, to develop theater professionals and students, and to create opportunities for artistic dialogue and cultural exchange. The goal of the Associates program is to nurture the next generation of theater artists by facilitating the creation and presentation of new works in an atmosphere of artistic dialogue and exchange. In 2006, the Associates New Work Series will serve six emerging theater artists by supporting works-in-progress performances of new works initiated by these artists, assigning Company members as mentors for the artists, providing performance and rehearsal space in the SITI Studio, offering stipends and budgets to cover artists' fees and production expenses, and dedicating a series producer to supervise development and production matters.

Actor Charles Janasz received $2,800 to spend a month in India, studying Indian performing arts. Janasz's trip is intended to deepen his understanding of Indian culture, Eastern spirituality and theatrical techniques. He will divide his time among Trivandrum, Trichur, Madras and Delhi studying performance traditions such as Kathak and Bharatanatyam. He'll also visit the National School of Drama and the Sri Ram Center to gain a contemporary perspective on Indian theater.

MOLLY WORRE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, CARRIE VOLK, St. Paul, Minnesota, and CARRIE BUSH, Minneapolis, Minnesota, were awarded a grant for Golden Hour, a mixed media HD and 16mm narrative short about a man named Jim who wakes up to the gray world around him. He suffers from dementia and is desperate to remember his past. His memories are tangled together in filmstrips projected in the black box of his mind. He relies on his book of prompts and Post-It reminders to carry him through the daywithout them, simple tasks like remembering to turn off the stove and take his medication are completely forgotten. Jim wanders alone in life but chases the fragmented memory of a lost love. As the visions of this love are revealed, his memories begin to invade his realitysnow speckled streets are blurred with crashing waves and hot summer sand. Jim becomes consumed with unraveling the Golden Hour. Near the end of the film, as his fragmented memories come rushing back in full clarity, he realizes the missing memories stolen by dementia have been romanticized and are better left forgotten.