Community Arts
Community Arts
Musical programs for seniors in the metro area Funding to provide live interactive musical entertainment to metropolitan area seniors in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, senior housing and community centers from April through December 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
Bring mini concerts (about 50 minutes long) to 40 different senior housing, assisted living and memory care and skilled care facilities, as well as some senior centers entertaining them with songs from their past. We expect to reach nearly 1,500 people during the period of April 1-December 20, 2017. We keep track of the number of singers at each performance as well as an estimated number of people in our audiences. We hear feedback via email, letters of thanks and critical, but kind comments from our director as to how well we did in entertaining our intended audience.
We performed at 48 venues during the project period. Our average attendance is about 25 people, reaching a total of 1200 people. Some of these are duplicated, as we performed at three locations twice. All singers and the director hear comments from our audiences after the performance--time after time, these are nearly 100% positive comments, which is very gratifying.
Other, local or private