Arts Access Grant (B)
Arts Access Grant (B)
Funds will help the BSO present a performance of the 3-part fusion oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard. Dr. Beverly Everett will conduct the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Jason Thoms will direct the Dakota Pro Musica in this 10/08/2023 concert.
Anna Larson, arts appreciator; C.T. Marhula, arts advocate; Becky Colebank, visual artist and author; Nancy Schmidt, arts appreciator; Katie Larson, theater artist; Terry Boal Leinbach, visual artist; Nicholas Jackson, visual artist, musician, filmmaker; Bonnie Friborg, visual artist; Germaine Riegert, literary artist and arts appreciator;
Nicholas Jackson, visual artist, musician, and R2AC Board Member; Terry Boal Leinbach, visual artist and R2AC Board Member; Katie Larson, theater artist and R2AC Board Member; Arlene Kandert, arts appreciator; Ann Marie Newman, writer, storyteller, and theater artist; Kay Kallos, arts advocate and retired public art consultant;
Region 2 Arts Council, Laura Seter (218) 751-5447
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
As a result of this concert, members of the target audience will have an increased awareness of the power of music to work for societal good, conveying both the need for justice and healing in the face bigotry and inhuman, criminal behavior and music's ability to promote and effect such healing. Additionally, we believe that as a result of this awareness, at least some members of the target audience will feel more comfortable and welcomed to attend future BSO concerts. Our primary evaluation will be a short, printed survey, issued to all attendees upon entering the venue and to be collected at the end of the concert. Members of the target audience will not be aware that they are the target audience but key responses will identify them internally as such. The questions are intended to get attendees to express the types of emotions the concert engendered and if these responses varied between the target audience and the general audience.
As a result of this concert, audience members gained a greater awareness of the Matthew Shepard tragedy and demonstrated that music has the power to touch people's souls in and deepen people's empathy and humanity. While large portions of the audience sai
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