Arts Activities Support
Karna Kunti Sambad
Funding for Karna Kunti Sambad, an original dance opera featuring composer J.D. Steele, director Marcela Lorca and singer Robert Robinson. Performances will take place at OÆShaughnessy Auditorium in May 2013.
Elin Anderson: Sound Designer, Park Square Theatre; Scott Pakudaitis: Board President, Bedlam Theatre; Pat Teiken: Executive Director, Twin Cities Womens' Choir; Janna Knittel: Institutional Giving Manager, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Amy Rummenie: Artistic Director, Walking Shadow Theater Company; Joe Hagedorn: artist, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet; Bill Cottman: Artistic Director, Salon 106; Steve Busa: Artistic Director, Red Eye Collaboration; Rebecca Cline: Assistant Director of Development, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
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 Cultural Heritage
To enhance cultural collaborations in Minnesota as a vehicle for community creation and intercultural harmony; to provide accessible cultural experiences in the Twin Cities metro area; to build audiences for the cultural arts; to build the skill of professional Kathak dancers.Attendance and box office statistics; audience feedback; artist and staff feedback.
The production was able to educate and engage a larger audience on the commonalities between Asian Indian and African American cultures; 1300 individuals attended performances; additional press for the production allowed to reach a more diverse audience; Kathak dancers gained new skills.
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