Quick Start Grants - Organizations
Quick Start Grants - Organizations
HD TV for AFI Doc Announcement
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Cultural Heritage
The project's goals are to appropriately present an upcoming filmmaker's work at our next Collective meeting. The trailer for Saving Brinton, a Midwest project from a Duluth-based filmmaker, is having its premiere at our upcoming May meeting, and we would like a TV that plays the project at the highest definition with the correct color and lighting. The outcome will be to continue to have meetings at maximum capacity (20 people), further establish our reputation amongst filmmakers in the area, and possibly expand our meetings to twice a month, thus increasing membership. We use both Facebook and Meetup to measure our reach and membership. We are currently at 30 members on Meetup, and I am able to keep track of our attendance for each meeting. Our past meetings have been at capacity (20 per meeting), and I will continue to monitor our attendance and growing membership. As our membership grows (beyond 30 on Meetup and 90 on Facebook), we will be able to expand our official meetings and offer them more than once a month. This will provide greater use for the TV and allow us to screen more film projects and discover more filmmakers in the area. Our current meetings: One monthly meeting (first Thursday of every month) - 20 attending. Two Creative workshops (every other week) - 9 attending. Midnight Movie Screenings (every other month) - 35- 40 attending. We hope to increase the monthly meetings by 15-20 members, the Creative Coffees by 5 members, and the Midnight Movie screenings to 50-70 members.
We were looking for two things when it came to this project: high attendance and quality of presentation. The seating at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe conference room is limited to 20 people at the table. For this particular meeting, we were able to push our attendance to the exact maximum, so it was definitely a success in that respect. The other thing I was looking for - and my entire reason for writing the grant - was to appropriately present our keynote filmmaker's project. Our featured filmmaker was giving us a special premiere of his trailer that was set to premiere the next week on the popular website IndieWire, and it was very important to me that it be presented in the proper HD format. The filmmaker was VERY pleased with the presentation and I can proudly say that we are now booked until September with filmmakers eager to show their work.
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