Community Arts
Funding for a two-week intensive Mexican Folkloric Dance Workshop primarily led by Maestro Tizoc Fuentes Yaco. Workshops will be held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and the Wellstone Center on St Paul’s West Side in July 2013.
Julie Andersen: Executive Director of Eagan Art House; Jill Anfang: Program Director at Roseville Parks and Recreation; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Libraries Director; Bethany Brunsell: music teacher and performer; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board Member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Paul Creager: Saint Paul Public Schools Administrator, Square Lake Film Festival Director; Erika Eklund: HGA Architects; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Executive Director; Mary Erickson: Independent School District 112 Community Education; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake Savage Community Education; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation; Margaret Rog: consultant, grant writer; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Rachel Smoka: Children's Theatre Company Development Officer; Beth Starbuck: vocal performer; Dameun Strange: composer, performer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law.
Charles Campbell: artistic, administration, marketing; Daniel Pinkerton: artistic; Louis Porter II: artistic, organizational planning, education; Heather Everhart: artistic, administration, marketing; Hayley Johnson: general management; Jamil Dwan Jude: artistic; Lindsy Halleckson: artistic, general management; Elizabeth Simonson: artistic, administration; Hilary Smith: fundraising.
ACHF Cultural Heritage
Increased energy and enthusiasm about dancing and performing from the participants; increased performance skills realized by the instructors; increased self-esteem and sense of accomplishment, and the desire to share the same from the participants; increased enrollment in Los Alegres Bailadores’ regular folkloric dance classes.Informal interaction.
The enthusiasm and energy of the instructor was contagious and the participants were engaged and determined from the first class to the last; 67 individuals participated in the workshops; 17 were new participants; 5 had never taken folkloric dance.
Other, local or private