TigerLion Arts (TLA) is a Minneapolis-based production company with the mission to celebrate human wisdom and the spirit of nature through creative works that awaken, inform, and delight. For more than 15 years, TLA has touched the lives of thousands nationwide with original productions including: The Buddha Prince, a play celebrating the life and culture of the 14th Dalai Lama, performed nationally and endorsed with high acclaim by the Office of Tibet; The Buddha Prince Album, orchestrated by master Tibetan musician Tenzin Ngawang; Buddha Prince Backstage, a PBS documentary featuring the inspired creation process with Minnesota’s Tibetan community and the unique "walking play" style for which TLA is renowned; Nature, the nationally touring outdoor production about Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, created by Emerson descendent Tyson Forbes; Nature: Walking with Emerson & Thoreau, a regional Emmy award winning PBS documentary; the soundtrack Nature, the Album; KIPO!, a circus of spirit, song, and dance from Tibet, and official arts offering of the Dalai Lama’s 2011 Minnesota Visit; The Flame Brigade, a clown act about fire safety choregraphed on a vintage fire engine; and The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, a musical adaptation of Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky’s book of dragon poems, which performed its flying dragon finale at Twin Cities’ beloved Ivey Awards. Funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board, Dragons also offered an extensive music and puppetry residency program to the Minneapolis and Robbinsdale Public Schools. TLA serves communities of all ages and backgrounds, inspiring good human values and a love of nature through the arts and social empowerment. TLA carries out this work in collaboration and partnership with innovative groups worldwide, including:

Minnesota State Fair, Circus Juventas, Minnesota Boychoir, Puppet Farm Arts, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minnesota Fringe Festival, The Southern Theater, Theatre L’Homme Dieu, Zen Cabaret, Project Success, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia), Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), Hennepin History Museum, Concord Museum, Whittier Alliance, University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality & Healing, City of Lakes Waldorf School, Minneapolis Public Schools, Robbinsdale Schools, The Perpich Center for Arts Education, Adventurer Press, Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota, Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), Tibetan Communities of New York & New Jersey, The Tibet Fund, Amazing Momo, Shambhala Sun Foundation, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Carlson Meadows, Three Rivers Park District, The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Children & Nature Network, The Thoreau Society, Thoreau Farm, The Walden Woods Project, Central Park Conservancy, The Trustees of Reservations, Okoboji Blue Water Festival, The Morton Arboretum, Grinnell College, Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint John’s University, City of Pasadena, Lily Spring Farm, and Squash Blossom Farm.

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