Community Arts
Community Arts
Support for 2 Concerts in 2017. Funding to support two concerts of the River Valley Band. The first concert will feature River Valley Band performing with a guest trumpeter and will be held at the outdoor Hastings Pavilion in May 2017. The second concert will feature River Valley Band in a combined concert with the Hastings High School Wind Ensemble and the Sheldon Brass Band from Red Wing and will take place at Hasting High School in October 2017.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Stephani Atkins: Youth programming, volunteerism, artistic; Rachel Bender: General administration, community service, development, youth programming; Janelle Doyle: Education, community education, youth programming; Paul Eastwold: Disabilities specialist, education, general management, administration; Bob Graff: Education, general management, administration, youth programming; Alejandra Iannone: Artistic, education, youth programming; Larry Neumann: Education, community education; Jeanne Schwartz: General administration, fundraising, organizational development; Christy Spillman George: General administration, organizational development, audience development, marketing.
ACHF Arts Access
In our project concerts, the River Valley Band intends to offer a program that challenges our members to greater musicianship as it performs with guest artists. We intend to not only retain our present audience in terms of numbers but also to attract a new and diverse audience. Our project concert audiences will be evaluated with a visual count and by providing the audience a short evaluation form with our concert programs. These forms will seek audience feedback on their enjoyment of the concert, whether improvements can be made to future concert venues and audience demographics (age/gender, etc.).
The Board of the RVB deems the most significant outcome of our project concerts was an increase in concert attendance (May - rain out diminished our attendance; Oct - 291 total, a 40% increase), growth in musicianship of our members as well as growth in actual numbers of RVB musicians (up 65%),
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