Operating Support
Operating Support
The mission of the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus is gay men building community through music.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
ACHF Arts Access
Provide musical programming that is exceptional, entertaining, educational, and affirming through tactics identified in our FY18-20 Strategic Plan. Concert season and artistic leadership feedback from audience, singers, staff, board and collaborative partners; single ticket growth; sustained subscriber levels; number of outreach performances. 2: Build new audiences and deepen ongoing relationships with existing audiences through tactics identified in our FY18-20 strategic plan. Use of comp ticket program; marketing to and partnering with LGBT/allied and other organizations identified via our strategic plan; tracking against strategic plan tactics; audience feedback.
Our concerts challenged our audiences to be aware of current social justice issues in each concert, including our holiday show. Feedback from audience members, especially unsolicited constructive feedback (both positive and negative), increase in ticket sales over prior years, feedback from our singers, increase in the number of singers who perform the entire season instead of taking a break (as an indicator of engagement and internal community building). 2: Our student rush, public rush and comp ticket programs saw incremental growth over last season. Our public rush program (all remaining tickets are $15 each, one hour before showtime) was introduced last season to complement our legacy $10 student rush program. We grew the public rush program by over 100%. We used promo codes to track specific tickets (rush, comp, special codes for organizations to use, etc.).
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