Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
Drumming and Dancing Across Cultures.
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.
Adrienne Doyle: Youth Programming, Artistic, Community Service and Development; Bob Peskin: General Management and Administration, Finance and Audit, Fundraising; Karla Arredondo-Payan: Organizational Development, Fundraising, Community Service and Development; Reona Berry: Artistic, Tisidra Jones, Community Education, General Administration.
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative: 26 Preschool Children and their Parents, and other family members participate in 5 Traditional Drumming and Dance lessons facilitated by 3 Traditional Artist and Musicians representative of South and Central American, African, and Native American nations. Qualitative: Multi-culture Families represented in South Minneapolis explore and celebrate rhythm and movement across three prominent cultures via traditional drumming and dance. Anticipated outcomes; include: greater inter-cultural understanding and community building; drumming and dance as an early childhood intervention strategy for positive social, emotional, and physical growth among young children at-risk; strengthen parent and child attachment and; increase access to the arts. Evaluation methods for this Metropolitan Regional Arts Council arts project will include both qualitative and quantitative measures including: verbal report, artist and teacher observation, informal parent feedback sessions, and attendance records. We are interested in family engagement in the project in terms of participation, increased attendance, emotional expression, physical activity and developmental appropriateness.
Children and families learned about three prominent cultures via traditional drumming and dance. They gained greater inter-cultural understanding and learned about how drumming builds community across cultures. Stories, dance, chanting and rhythm strengthened parent/child attachment and cultural pride. Children learned the importance of following directions to create complex rhythms together.
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