Creative Intersections
Songs for Our Fathers
Funding for Songs for Our Fathers, an arts initiative recognizing African-American men as fathers and community leaders.
Lia Rivamonte: Executive Director, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts; Kersten Elverum: City of Hopkins, Director of Planning and Development; Jun-Li Wang: Artist Community Organizer, Springboard for the Arts; John Bueche: Bedlam Theatre; Jessica Briggs: Program Manager, Ananya Dance Theatre; Steve Boland: Loan Officer, Nonprofits Assistance Fund.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Access
To affirm and give voice to the significant role of fathers in the development and enhancement of children and the world they will inherit; to expand the conversation around the seldom-heard voices of black men who are participating in the fathering experience and the roles they play in lives of children and the African American community.Participant feedback from comment cards; audience feedback from interactive components; audience response in program inserts.
Approximately 1,000 events attendees were exposed to messages through writing and performance of the positive roles fathers are playing in the lives of their children.
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