Art Project Grant
Art Project Grant
Grand Rapids Players 13th Annual Summer Theatre Kids Camp Presents Mary Poppins, Jr. and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our goal is to instill knowledge, skills, and love of theatre using games, activities, and scenarios highlighting as many pieces of the world of theatre as three weeks will allow. Everyone will have a role to play on stage. Many will participate behind-the-scenes with makeup, costuming, working sounds/lights in the tech booth, pulling curtain ropes, working the fly system and set-changing. Some will assistant directing and choreograph, too. Measurable outcomes will be two successful (quality and financial) public performances, 80-plus registrants, positive survey feedback, and repeat/continued participation in our many programs. Our goal of instilling 'knowledge, skills, and love of theatre' is something that we can't physically measure but these goals will present themselves in the two public performances, and beyond. Measuring our outcomes will include our financial report at the conclusion of the show, data gathered from the parent survey form and the participants survey form, the number of registrations forms we receive, and witnessing their return when they join upcoming projects and programs, sometimes Grand Rapids Players, and sometimes outside of us i.e.. high school, church, youth group productions.
We set a cap of 80 participants in this year's camp. We had 73. Due to some scheduling, as well as calendar, conflicts pushing our camp from three weeks to 4, there were a number of kids who had intended to come but could not. One exciting and glorious piece of data was the increase in the number of campers in grades 6-9! All 73 artists DID have at least one role to play on stage. Most had four costume changes! Many DID participate behind-the-scenes with makeup, costuming, pulling curtain ropes, working the fly system and set-changing. Five participants contributed to the choreography, as well. We hosted two successful public performances, totaling 750 audience-members. We directors received many many accolades from family members, expressing their gratitude and inquiries about next year's camp. Comments regarding the performance quality lead us to conclude that it was an artistic success. Based on the financial report, the program was a financial success. Many parents have reached out inquiring about next year's dates so they can plan their summer vacations AROUND next year's camp! Last year's intern-director returned to take on one of the three lead director roles and was highly successful. Focused on quality and realizing the complexity of the music in Mary Poppins, Jr. we brought in a vocal director for Mary Poppins. This was a wise investment as well as a valuable learning experience for the Mary Poppins cast and we 3, directors. Overall, we lead directors, are pleased with the quality of our program and look forward to continued success in 2020!
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