Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
African American Composers of The Hard Bop Jazz Era Concert Series.
Osman Mohamed Ali: Founder and Executive Director; Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director; Cristeta Boarini: freelance audio producer, journalist, writer, Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director, Alejandra Iannone: Creative Co-Director, Wu Chen Khoo: Technical: Stage Technical Designer,Stage Director, Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Consultant, Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Donna Saul Millen: Events Director, Christal Moose: Manager, Adaobi Okolue: Executive Director, Andrea Sjogren: Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator, Deanna StandingCloud: Program and Community Network Director, Sara Wilson: Attorney.
Anna Ostroushko: Artistic, General Administration, Volunteerism; Caitlin Hammel: Artistic, Education, General Administration; Chandler Daily: Organizational Development, Artistic, General Administration; Daisuke Kawachi: Artistic, Community Education, General Administration; Hawona Sullivan Janzen: General Administration, Community Education, Artistic; Sophie Liu-Othmer: Community Education, Community Service and Development, General Administration.
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative outcomes include an average 150 attending the concerts with a qualitative outcome of an average of 5-10% of those attendees giving positive written feedback and email addresses given on the feedback and email sign up form provided during performances. Artistic outcomes include a wide range of musicians performing a large musical library of African American composers from the classic and modern hard bop eras within the jazz idiom and performing said library with vigor and authenticity. Evaluation of the project’s success will be done on two fronts: with the musicians and the audience. For the audience as a community, success will be having an ethnically diverse group of individuals from the area neighborhoods attend the concerts; on a more concrete front, a feedback guest book is provided adjacent to the stage where audience members are given an opportunity to give feedback as well as sign up for the email list.
Email sign ups as well as tips and beer sale information served as a quantitative barometer. As said in the income sheet the money from the tips exceeded our expectations. Our "guest book" served as a qualitative indicator. One person wrote "the exceptional music from the [MNHBC] combined with fine beer supersedes the best and most expensive therapists around."
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