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Level Up: Grant Writing 101 with Saymoukda Vongsay
December 12, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Saymoukda Vongsay will provide beginning grant writers with the knowledge and tools to write their grants.
About Workshop Presenter
Saymoukda is a Lao poet, playwright, social practitioner, and cultural producer. She’s the author of the children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING and is best known for her award-winning play KUNG FU ZOMBIES VS CANNIBALS.
Her plays have been presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (NY), Theater Mu (MN), Lower Depth Theater (LA), Asian Improv Arts (IL), and elsewhere. Her awards include grants/fellowships from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Bush Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, MAP Fund, Playwrights’ Center, Forecast Public Art, MRAC, MSAB, and 30-ish more.
Saymoukda is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Theater Mu, a McKnight Foundation Fellow in Community-Engaged Practice Art, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in playwriting; and serves on the City of Saint Paul’s Cultural STAR Board.
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General Program Overview
Level Up is an affordable professional development series for artists, organizers, and community leaders. Facilitated by artists, arts leaders, and professionals from within the TruArtSpeaks network, there will be a new lead facilitator and topic each session. Please visit the website for the full schedule and come as you need/desire. If you are an artist, organizer, or anything in between and are looking to gain skills in grant writing, lesson planning, using social media to shift the narrative about your community, or if you are seeking to learn best practices as a community organizer or more— this space is for you.
Sliding scale admission is available; please pay what you can and join us as we invest in our community.