Arts Access Grant - 2021
Arts Access Grant - 2021
Funds will assist Northern Light Opera Company to organize a 7-day workshop led by a duo of professional playwrights, designed to facilitate a group of community based writers in the writing of their own original plays.
Becky Colebank: visual artist and author; Ben Soderberg; arts appreciator; Shannon Lucas-Westrum: fiber and jewelry artist; Pam Janssen: visual artist and woodcarver; Gayle Gish: arts advocate; Katelyn Larson; theater artist; Mike Schlemper: writer, sculptor, ceramicist, and arts educator; C.T. Marhula: arts appreciator.
Becky Colebank: visual artist and author; Shannon Lucas-Westrum: fiber and jewelry artist; Pam Janssen: visual artist and woodcarver; Gayle Gish: arts advocate; C.T. Marhula: arts appreciator; Katelyn Larson; theater artist.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
As a result of this funding, participants in the Workbench New Play Workshop will experience an increased facility in playwriting and greater knowledge of dramatic structure through their participation in a series of thoughtfully crafted exercises, designed to encourage risk taking and foster the development of their "voice" as a writer. Evaluation methods include paper and google surveys administered after the final performance to measure effectiveness of the Workbench's methods and philosophies upon the artistic growth and development of writing skills in workshop participants, as well as evaluation of the levels of interest and enthusiasm generated in the audiences that saw the performance. Final evaluations, in the form of interviews, will be made with the Project Planners evaluation overall effectiveness of the program.