Community Arts
Community Arts
Byzantine Choral Festival Funding for the 8th Annual Byzantine Choral Festival, featuring a free workshop and public concert. The concert of diverse ethnic choral traditions in the Byzantine rite will take place at Saint Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church 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.
Mica Anders: General administration; Maya Beck: Artistic, general administration, community service, development; Andi Cheney: Organizational development, general administration, finance; Tia-Simone Gardner: Artistic, youth programming, community service, development; Alneida Madrigal: General administration, organizational development, youth programming; Laura Nahri: Fundraising, general management, administration, organizational development; Ricardo Vazquez: Artistic, audience development, marketing, community education; Magnolia Yang Sao Yia: Artistic, community education, youth programming.
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The 8th Annual Byzantine Choral Festival will feature a free workshop and public concert. Based on previous years, the board estimated 50+ singers will take part in the workshop and 6-8 choirs will present diverse ethnic choral traditions of the Byzantine at the concert that will take place at Saint Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church. The board estimates that the audience count will be 300+ and over 90% will indicate that they will most likely attend the performance in 2018. The board will conduct both an audience and a participant survey. The board will collect post-performance feedback. The performance will be recorded.
Out of the 470+ concert attendees 4% were from out of state, 3% from outer MN, 84% attended the Festival for the first time and 98% said they would attend again. Out of the 45 workshop attendees, 85% were familiar with Byzantine rite music, 44% attended the workshop for the first time, and 100% would attend again. 25% of the audience and 77% of the workshop participants filled out surveys.
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