Arts Access
Arts Access
Through the Lake Street Arts Access Program, Pangea will provide free tickets to performances, transportation, child care, workshops, and support to create a community-based performance to members of the Latino and Somali community on Lake Street.
Judson Bemis Jr.: Actor, arts administrator, founder and principal of Clere Consulting. Secretary, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Marys University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.; John Gunyou, City manager, Minnetonka.; Benjamin Klipfel: Board member, Minnesota State Arts Board. Executive Director, Alexandria Area Arts Association, Inc. Director and arts educator.; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Pamela Perri: Executive vice president, Builders Association of Minnesota.; Margaret Rapp: Former educator, Saint Paul Academy and Summit School. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Anton Treuer: Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University.
Melanie Davis: Volunteer Services and Corporate Engagement Director, Lyngblomsten, St. Paul; Alice De Yonge: Program director, Project G.E.M., nonprofit that serves special needs youth; Anna Deschampe: School Director, Oshki Ogimaag Community School, Grand Portage; Sharon Fischlowitz: Executive Director, Black Label Movement, Minneapolis; David Machacek: Executive director, ArtOrg, Visual artist; MaryLynn Pulscher: Environmental Education Coordinator, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board; Toni Quirk: Vice president of development PAI (provides services to adults with developmental disabilities), White Bear Lake.; Kristine Wyant: Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations., Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Executive director Sue Gens (651) 215-1600
ACHF Arts Access
Our relationships with the Latino and Somali community on Lake Street deepens. Our evaluator will help us determine whether participants feel they had adequate opportunities to reflect, share and apply what they've learned, and whether their voice is heard in meetings, workshops and creation process. 2: Financial barriers, transportation barriers, language barriers, and barriers of cultural literacy are mitigated. Increased attendance of Latino/a and Somali community members at Pangea programming, high levels of participation at workshops and in creating Home, and a sustained relationship with participants that goes beyond this project.
Pangea World Theater presented several plays and readings over the project period Hmong Bollywood, Sabra Falling and Aliens Unplugged. We reached out to the Latino/a and Somali communities in the Twin Cities. Torres Tama, the artists of Hmong Bollywood and Sabra Falling offered storytelling and writing workshops for artists and community members to tell their own stories. Free tickets were offered to participants to see plays. Through our Home project that included Somali and Latino/a artists, the project expanded participants creative and technical skills, including theatrical project development, story circles and professional development. In addition, Pangea convened pre and post-performance panel discussion with community members in which key issues were discussed. A network of 20+ Somali and Latino/a community leaders and allies gathered for group meetings to be updated on the programs progress, provide feedback and share ideas. 2: Our efforts to mitigate barriers included providing buses to students, a pay as you can policy for audiences that cannot afford tickets. We provided transportation to community members to make it to gatherings and childcare. We also distributed fliers and brochures announcing gatherings and multi-lingual performances in multiple languages. We provided interpreters at meetings. This was to increase the level of comfort for our immigrant communities. In order to educate our audiences in theatrical forms and increase awareness and knowledge of theater, our post performance discussions were also in the form of panels that included speakers. Language facilitation made this program highly successful. Home took place in the Pangea studio for free it included Somali, Spanish and English. The workshops and rehearsals included embodied sustainable processes into our organizing practices and provided skill-building opportunities for all participants.
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