Community Arts
Community Arts
Final Frontier Festival: Fairy Tales Funding for The Final Frontier Festival, an annual one act festival highlighting the stories of marginalized people, particularly from queer and feminist voices. Performances will take place in June 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.
ACHF Arts Access
120 patrons attended the performances, including 30 people who had not seen a Gadfly production previously. Audience surveys show that 25% of patrons experienced fairy tales from a perspective they hadn't thought of before. We will evaluate outcomes via post-production audience surveys, completed online, and informal information gathering during post-show talk-back events. Audience size will be determined by box office counts.
Gadfly saw almost 200 audience members over 6 nights in a 40 seat house. This was a largely LGBTQ+ audience, and included many POC, disabled, and impoverished community members, and we saw our audience numbers jump for each of those communities. We also put on six well-received shows in a small space with a minimal budget, fostering interest in our future projects.
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