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    Trimpin | The Gurs Zyklus by Trimpin

    A new opera about a French internment camp featuring the sound sculptures of MacArthur "Genius" Trimpin.

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    • 100% funded
    • $15,000 pledged
    • Funded
      May 03, 2012

    Trimpin (2006 Performing Arts grantee) premiered his Creative Capital-supported project, "The Gurs Zyklus," at Stanford in 2011.

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    Bring Going Green the Wong Way to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest! by Kristina Wong

    Support Kristina Wong's first international tour! Going Green the Wong Way at the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland!

    • 58% funded
    • $9,356 pledged
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    Help performing artist Kristina Wong get to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival—the Wong way! Kristina is a 2006 Performing Arts grantee for her project "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

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    "Letters From the Big Man" - home video distribution by Christopher Munch

    Sarah Smith (Lily Rabe), an artist and hydrologist, sets out on a post-fire stream survey, during which she encounters a sasquatch man.

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    • 128% funded
    • $9,660 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 01, 2012

    Christopher Munch is a 2000 Film/Video grantee for his project "The Sleepy Time Gal." He's raising funds to distribute his new film, "Letters from the Big Man," on DVD. "Letters from the Big Man" premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

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    ONLY CHILD - featuring Grace Zabriskie and Amy LaVere by Brian Pera

    As a mother searches for her missing daughter, the troubled past they share comes into sharper focus in this noir mystery.

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    • 115% funded
    • $26,470 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 29, 2012

    Help 2012 Film/Video grantee Brian Pera make the second feature-length film in his Creative Capital-supported series, "Woman's Picture." "Only Child" features Grace Zabriskie and Amy LaVere, playing an estranged mother and daughter with a hidden secret between them.

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    Dogugaeshi, Studio Theatre 2012 by Basil Twist

    Basil Twist's abstract journey of images from ancient and modern Japan, a part of the 100th National Cherry Blossom Festival, 2012.

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    • 101% funded
    • $34,955 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 29, 2012

    Basil Twist is a 2000 Performing Arts grantee for "Dogugaeshi," a puppet theater piece he's raising funds to revive. "Dogugaeshi" will be part of a festival celebrating Twist's work at several cultural institutions throughout Washington, DC, in spring 2012.

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    Restless Eye by David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group

    The newest work from David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group, premiering at New York Live Arts in New York City: March 24 - April 1, 2012

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    • 133% funded
    • $4,000 pledged
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      Mar 24, 2012

    David Neumann is a 2009 Performing Arts grantee for his project "Big Eater," which premiered at The Kitchen in New York in 2010. He's raising funds to bring his new project "Restless Eye" to New York Live Arts.

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    I Am Secretly An Important Man - theatrical distribution by Pete Sillen

    I Am Secretly An Important Man is a documentary film about Seattle writer, Jesse Bernstein.

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    • 116% funded
    • $7,545 pledged
    • Funded
      Aug 10, 2011

    2000 Film/Video grantee Peter Sillen is raising funds for the theatrical distribution of "I Am Secretly An Important Man," a documentary portrait of Jesse Bernstein, one of Seattle’s most important underground literary voices.

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    The Yes Men Present: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism by The Yes Lab

    The Yes Men are launching The Yes Lab so activist groups and individuals can carry out creative, media-getting actions of their own!

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    • 142% funded
    • $14,234 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 17, 2011

    The Yes Men are 2000 Emerging Fields grantees for their documentary film, "The Yes Men." We're thrilled that their campaign to help launch The Yes Lab for Creative Activism was such a huge success, raising nearly $15,000!

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    MY REINCARNATION by Jennifer Fox

    Be the CATALYST. Spread MY REINCARNATION, an epic documentary about spirituality, family and destiny...

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    • 300% funded
    • $150,456 pledged
    • Funded
      May 28, 2011

    Jennifer Fox is a 2000 Film/Video grantee for "FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman." Her campaign to raise funds for her new documentary "My Reincarnation" was one of the most successful in Kickstarter's history!

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    WeOwnTV - Picturing Independence: A Positive Revolution by Banker White

    WeOwnTV presents the work of talented young Sierra Leonean storytellers who are creating a new national identity through film.

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    • 120% funded
    • $18,115 pledged
    • Funded
      Jun 08, 2011

    2008 Film/Video grantee Banker White's WeOwnTV is truly an amazing project!

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    COLORMEAMERICA multimedia performance by Salt Farm

    COLORMEAMERICA is a multimedia project developed by SALT FARMBUTOH VÉRITÉ, based in San Francisco and traveling to the Big Apple.

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    • 112% funded
    • $1,350 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 10, 2011

    Ledoh is a 2006 Performing Arts grantee for "COLORMEAMERICA." We are thrilled to support this incredible work.

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    GRAB: The Exhibition by Idris + Tony / Cybelle Codish

    Help us fund our first ever exhibition to be held at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

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    • 452% funded
    • $22,606 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 13, 2011

    Billy Luther is a 2008 Film/Video grantee for the film "GRAB." We are thrilled that his photography exhibition was such a success on Kickstarter!

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    "IdEgo" 20th anniversary season by Project Bandaloop

    Premiering in San Francisco in 2011, Project Bandaloop is creating a major new, highly collaborative, vertical dance work titled "IdEgo

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    • 105% funded
    • $10,529 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 31, 2010

    Project Bandaloop's Amelia Rudolph is a 2000 Performing Arts grantee for the troupe's piece "Crossing," a site-specific performance in the Sierra Nevada range.

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    TAKEN BY STORM: A FILM ABOUT STORM THORGERSON AND HIPGNOSIS by Roddy Bogawa

    Real? Surreal? Iconic? The album art of Storm Thorgerson is so far deeply embedded in our psyche it's hard to believe it all came from one mind...

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    • 106% funded
    • $21,317 pledged
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      Jul 06, 2010

    Roddy Bogawa is a 2000 Film/Video grantee for his film "I Was Born, But...," an experimental narrative film exploring the abstract notion of assimilation and the contradictions of those born into the ‘melting pot’ culture of America.