Arts Activities Support

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Katha Dance Theatre
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
June 2019
End Date
January 2020
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview

Arts Activities Support

Project Details

‘Shaamya - Of Equality’.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute Program Director; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Sparkle Theatricals Creative Co-Director; Wu Chen Khoo: Technical Tools of the Trade Stage Technical Designer and Director; Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Consultant; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Donna Saul Millen: TPT-Twin Cities PBS Events Director; Christal Moose: Native Pride Productions Inc Manager; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Community Education Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator; Deanna StandingCloud: New Native Theatre; Sara Wilson: Gislason and Hunter LLP Attorney.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Andi Cheney: Organizational Development, General Administration, Finance; Brenda Butler: Education, Youth Programming, Community Education; Bryan Thao Worra: Artistic, Community Service / Development; Edna Stevens: Youth Programming, Audience Development / Marketing, Artistic; Loren Niemi: General Management / Administration, Artistic, Organizational Development / Planning; Nakita Kirchner: Artistic, Organizational Development, Education; Sara Endalew: Artistic, Community Service / Development, Education.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2017 Regular Session, chapter 91, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Cultural Heritage

2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$13,000
Direct expenses
$23,000
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Twin Cities artists Rita Mustaphi and JD Steele, along with a team of dancers and musicians, all are artists of color will collaborate to create a new work that delivers a message ‘Let us transcend all barriers, let us forsake all smallness and accept our differences to embrace each other!’ For diverse audience assimilation, KDT project leaders will interact and communicate with the targeted community and make it accessible for them to attend the work-in-progress showing. KDT Board members will plan the evaluation process and implement it through written and online surveys to be conducted at open rehearsals, community interactions, feedbacks from artistic peers and the show attendants. These responses and information from the diverse audience and engagements will enable Mr. Steele and Ms. Mustaphi to make compositional and/or choreographic revisions, resulting in full production with accompanying intercultural activities during the Fall of 2020.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Between information provided to us by our venue (The Southern Theater), and comp tickets coming from us, we can safely estimate that about 150 people attended the performance. According to our audience surveys, approximately 97% of respondents had a positive to extremely positive reaction to the production, while approx. 89% of respondents both learned from the show and related to its content.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
achieved proposed outcomes
Source of Additional Funds

Other,local or private

Recipient Board Members
Anu Jain, Kalyan Mustaphi, Anurag Sharma, Rita Mustaphi, Marcia Boehnlein, Smriti Maheswari and Kuhu Singh.
Project Manager
First Name
Kalyan
Last Name
Mustaphi
Organization Name
Katha Dance Theatre
Street Address
5444 Orchard Ave N
City
Crystal
State
MN
Zip Code
55429-3246
Phone
(763) 533-0756
Email
kalyanmustaphi@yahoo.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

PO Box 14106
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 

Phone
Project Manager: Kathy Mouacheupao
651-645-0402
Email the Agency