Equipment/Facilities Improvement
Equipment/Facilities Improvement
Little Theatre Sound Stage
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Janine Teske: music, theater, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school board; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Cheryl Avenel-Navara, education, nonprofits, SMAC board; Mark Brodin, theater; Luanne Fondell, performing arts admin; Steve Linstrom, writing, nonprofits; Tammy Makram, performing arts admin; Paula Nemes, theater, music
ACHF Arts Access
The theater is currently technically equipped to provide live audio reinforcement and light design for on stage performance. This project will increase our technical capacity to record all live performances, stream live to the internet, and create the additional post-production skillset to prepare the recordings for cd, dvd, podcast, video. Furthermore, we will now have the capability to archive performances at the theater for marketing, artistic reference or distribution. The people most effected initially will be our technical committee and our interns. The artists we record will be affected as they will have professional level recordings to use as content to promote themselves and their art. Audiences will be able to view and/or purchase content. I believe our city will benefit as it will finally have a centralized digital archive of community events. Initially each event will offer an opportunity to gather results. Is the livestreamed performance viewed by many in realtime? Is it also viewed afterward? As time passes do we become a go to place to ask for archived event recordings' Do performers want to come to the theater to have their work documented? Do more high school students apply to be production interns' If we find that the answer is yes to these questions than we will know we have achieved our intended goals.
All major performances were successfully recorded, archived and are ready for post-production. Live-streamed content is available on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. We are still in the process of building a workflow that will lead to distribution of physical media. We have set up and put into use a video editing studio. The infrastructure and digital spaces are prepared to house and catalog content as we go through 2020-2021 recordings to make them accessible and downloadable. Our board members benefitted from personal trainings and instruction from audio engineer John Farrell and light technician, Eric Harp. Two artists have received full recordings and edited performances of their work that have been used for continuing promotional materials and grant writing work samples.