Vietnamese Heritage and Legacy Connections
Our grant application seeks to promote and preserve Vietnamese culture through the use of traditional Lunar New Year celebration which includes storytelling, music and dance.
2022-2023 Cultural Heritage and Community Identity Grants - Spring 2022
Between MNVNLS and Theater Mu, our project aims to track and measure quantifiable outcomes from the beginning to the end of the project through these goals:
- All students and parents who come on the first day of registration on September 11, 2022 will participate in the story hour where a bilingual volunteer from MNVNLS will read the book A Different Pondand facilitate the discussion. We estimate 100 people will be in attendance.
- MNVNLS will take 100 youth and adults to attend the play A Different Pondat the Stages Theatre Company.
- 15 students will enroll in Theater Mu's 12-week residency program to learn about combining performing arts with aspects of cultural heritage using skills such as acting and storytelling.
- Each of the 15 participants in the residency program will complete a project or work that will be ready to perform for the larger community at the Lunar New Year Celebration.
- 500 people or more will participate in the celebration of the Lunar New Year in January 2023.
- The A Different Pondstory hour and reading was held on September 25, 2022. Over 160 students and parents participated.
- 150 students and adults attended the play A Different Pondat the Stages Theatre Company on 10/2, 10/7, and 10/16/2022.
- 15 students are enrolled in Theater Mu's 12-week residency program to learn about combining performing arts with aspects of cultural heritage using skills such as acting and storytelling.
- The 15 participants in the residency program are preparing their projects and will perform for the larger community at the Lunar New Year Celebration on Saturday 1/14/2023.; The grant funded 3 special projects:
* A Different Pond
* Mu Theater
* Tet EventWith the help of the fund, we over-achieved the goals of each project.
- The A Different Pondstory hour and reading was held on September 25, 2022. Over 160 students and parents participated.
- 150 students and adults attended the play A Different Pondat the Stages Theatre Company on 10/2, 10/7, and 10/16/2022.
- 15 students enrolled in Theater Mu's 12-week residency program to learn about combining performing arts with aspects of cultural heritage using skills such as acting and storytelling.
- The 15 participants in the Theater Mu residency program presented their projects at the Lunar New Year Celebration on Saturday 1/14/2023.
- WCCO prominently featured our organization and Tet event on 2 programs:
Lunar New Year Begins this Weekend
https://youtu.be/Pz-7bGgxWo0
How to Mark the Start of Lunar New Year in the Twin Cities
https://youtu.be/jBrnHjl5dM0
- The Lunar New Year event on Saturday 1/14/2023 was a complete success and exceeded our expectations. We were expecting 500 people for the crowd. Between 800-900 people attended the event. The crowd enjoyed and cheered every song, dance, and play from start to end.
MNVLS has no other sources of funding for this project.. We did not have any other sources of funding for our projects.. We have no other source of funding. If the costs exceed the total grant amount, then members/volunteers of our organization will pitch in to cover the expense.
Tuyet Nguyen
Canh Truong
Loc Van
Trinh Vu
Huyen Tran; Chinh Vu
Canh Truong
Tuyet Nguyen
Trinh Vu
Huyen Tran
Loc Van