Arts Activities Support
Winter and spring concerts
Funding for winter and spring concerts in their 2011 û 2012 season. Esther by Handel will be presented at Sundin Music Hall at Hamline University in March 2012 and the spring concert will take place at Saint Olaf Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis in May 2012.
Scott Chamberlain: Musician and arts administrator, One Voice Mixed Chorus; Ellen Draeger: Musician and arts administrator, Lutheran Music Program; Jennifer Ilse: Co-artistic director, OffLeash Area dance and theater company; Alecia Leonard: Community education administrator and youth programming specialist; Mike Mason: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts staff; Dawn Ridgway: Dance performer and educator and arts administrator; Becky Ten Brink: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra staff.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Access
To provide high-quality classical chorale music; to increase audiences' knowledge and appreciation for these works through Oratorio's interpretation of them and supplemental materials; to build a wider and more diverse audience through collaboration, programming, and venue selection.Ticket sales; audience feedback and audience surveys; artist feedback.
Audience numbers and feedback mirrored the show's success; Collaborations provided a diversified audience while those attendees were reportedly invigorated by the concerts.
Other, local or private