2025 Twin Cities Jazz Festival
Como Apprentice Program is an education program that supports students looking to gain professional experience and learn more about the plants and animals. The program structure is the student is offered a 2 year paid internship through the City's RightTrack program and the apprentice support and education is supported through this EdZooCation program that includes career development education classes, workshops and training.
$73,125 the second year is for arts and arts access at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival.
It is the goal that the new TCJF initiatives for 2025 will have these quantitative outcomes:
1. For Las Guaracheras -TCJF will engage with 50-100 members of the salsa and Latinx communities through our community engagement. It is the hope see around 500-700 in the audience in on the dance floor (5th Street) for the Las Guaracheras performance.
2. For the River Stage - TCJF will hire 4-5 big bands to perform on the stage, and attract 1,000 people per day to Lower Landing park to see performances
And qualitative data goals:
1. For Las Guaracheras - TCJF will connect more deeply with the Latinx community through the community engagement activities and will gain more audience members for TCJF who identify as Latinx or Hispanic.
2. For the River Stage - audiences will have more opportunity to listen and dance to traditional and contemporary big band music outdoors by the Mississippi River, which is historically the way jazz music made it's way in the early days from New Orleans up to Minnesota. Audiences and artists will share in a communal experience involving music and dance on the shore of the river.