Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
Funding for IndiaFest 2016, a free annual event that celebrates Asian Indian arts, cultures, traditions, and languages featuring Katha Dance Theater, Ragamala, and Pangea World Theater. Activities will take place at the State Capitol in St Paul.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Jill Anfang: Roseville Parks and Recreation Program Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music Teacher and Performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair of El Arco Iris; Anthony Galloway: Actor, storyteller, West Metro Education Program; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer and Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Alia Jeraj: Youth programming, artistic education; Susan Rotilie: Education, artistic, volunteerism; Shelia McComb: Computer systems, finance, education; Eric Bruce: General management, audience development, volunteerism; Lacey Prpic Hedtke: Artistic, general management, fundraising; Roxane Wallace-Patterson: Artistic; Patty Gordon: Artistic, computer systems, education; Rebecca Cline: Fundraising, audience development, Community Education; Tom Borrup: Community Education, organizational development, general management.
ACHF Cultural Heritage
The number of people that attend IndiaFest 2016 reached 15,000 this year. Educate the broader community about India's diverse cultural values and heritage. India Association of Minnesota will create an online survey to be posted on its Facebook page for 15 days, from August 20 to September 3, 2016. Collect on-site survey right after the performance to measure the success of the performance. India Association of Minnesota will create an online survey to be posted on its Facebook page for 15 days, from August 20 to September 3, 2016. Collect on-site survey right after the performance to measure the success of the performance.
We had over 10,000 who participated at Indiafest 2017. And people from all walks of life and local Minnesotans were able to come and be part of the festival. We did an on-site survey as well as an online survey. One of the questions asked was what did you like about IndiaFest and the top answer was Learning about Indian Culture (72%) followed by Dancing and Food, Location and people. Yes! The artistic goals were achieved with this program. We had Ashwani from Ragamala trained with renowned teacher Alarmel Valli in India in the style of Bharatanatyam, south India’s classical dance present at IndiaFest 2017. Ananya dance presented a special piece on social justice created and dedicated to Indiafest--it was commissioned by and created for and premiered at India Fest. Katha dance presented Rubaiyat on Indiafest state which was again very well received. We also had Pangea create a special play for youth leadership where 17 teens perform. Since we had diversity in performance we had a very good turnout and that worked very well. The main challenge this year was the rain during the daytime which made it difficult to setup. This is the 6th year at the Capitol Grounds and we have seen an increase in attendance every year. Only, thing that we like to different for next year is to extend the program to two days. We are still exploring that option. Yes! We were able to reach out to the intended community. We had over 10,000 attend the festival and our target was local Minnesotans and due to our publicity using social media as well as local news outlets we were able to serve a diverse community. Our goal is to show the rich Indian Culture and heritage to the entire population of Minnesota and by having a diversity in performance, Bazaar, lots of kids activity as well as food from all parts of India we were able to achieve that goal.
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