Arts Project Support
Arts Project Support
Twin Cities Iranian Culture Festival
Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: 826 MSP Program Director; Craig Dunn: Arts Accessibility Consultant; 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 Professional; Alejandra Pelinka: City of Bloomington Director of Creative Placemaking; Tommy Sar: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Coordinator of Community Programs; Lue Vang: McKnight Foundation Accountant; 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; Robyn Cline: City of Savage Economic Development Commissioner
Craig Harris: Artistic, Organizational Development/Planning, General Management/ Administration/ Support; Nancy Ariza: General Management/ Administration/ Support, Education, Program Development; Paul Eastwold: Education, Accessibility/Disability Access, Youth Programming; Sophie Peyton: Artistic, General Administration, Community Service / Development; Stanton Wood: Artistic, Fundraising, Organizational Development; Yan Pang: Artistic, Education, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion.
ACHF Arts Access
Survey showed that more than 50% of non-Iranian attendees say that the project changed their perceptions of Iranians and/or Iranian culture. Survey showed that more than 50% of Iranian attendees and participants, and more than 50% of non-Iranian attendees, engaged in conversation about the programming with non-Iranians / Iranians.?. We will collect both quantitative data - the number of people who attend each event - and qualitative data, in the form of responses to survey questionnaires from participants and attendees. Our focus will be on determining how we can make Iranian Culture Week more valuable to attendees and participants in future years. We will ask whether the programming changed attendees perceptions of Iranians and Iranian culture, and how many attendees had an opportunity to engage with others of a different ethnicity (Iranians / non-Iranians.).
Approximately 130 people attended the socially distanced Iranian picnics. Around 250 people attended the Zoom concerts and lectures, which also received over 500 views on YouTube. 85% of all picnic survey responders, and 100% of non-Iranians said that the event deepened or changed their understanding of Iranian culture and 90% rated the opportunities for interaction as excellent or very good.
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