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Arts Initiative Award for festival, Dancing in the Streets

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Emma Davis, theatre and dance lecturer, and Jason Kosnoski, associate professor of political science, recently received a $25,000 U-M Arts Initiative award to engage with Flint-native musical artist Tunde Olaniran for the creation of a public performance festival in Flint this Summer.  The collaborators will work to bring together a variety of performance artists from