Arts Activities Support

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Minnesota Cambodian Communities Council
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
October 2016
End Date
February 2018
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Arts Activities Support
Project Details
Funding for The Traditional Cambodian Storytelling: Preservation and Perpetuation Project including activities such as Traditional Cambodian Storyteller Apprenticeships, Traditional Storyteller Circles, and Traditional Storytelling and Folktale Preservati
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher and performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair of El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Artistic Director of World Music and Dance and the International Children’s Festival; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer and performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Carrie Vecchione: Administration, artistic, youth programming; Daniel Peltzman: Administration, organizational development; Denise Tennen: Artistic, Community Education, finance; Kari Schloner: Administration, artistic, finance; Lacey Prpic Hedtke: Artistic, administration, fundraising; Christopher Bineham: Administration, fundraising, artistic; Sara Kleinsasser Tan: Administration, artistic, education; Adam Courville: Administration, Community Education, artistic; Huda Farah: Community Education.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$5,600
Direct expenses
$15,600
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Nine story circles are to be conducted with 8 participants in each story telling circle and concluding with one end of project Storytelling Public event. We will be training and working with 30 Cambodian elders and training 10 youth in storytelling techniques and styles to publish 20-30 Cambodian folktales and stories to be made available in written, digital and video formats. Our audience surveys will indicate that 75% of the attendees will have a heightened awareness of this art form and 75% will have a greater appreciation of the richness of the Cambodian culture through a first time experience. Knowledge and awareness pre-surveys and post surveys will be conducted of program participants and audience members. Additionally youth who are mentored as apprentice storytellers will receive pre-surveys and post surveys to measure their level of successful training and appreciation of the experience.

Measurable Outcome(s)

This Storytelling has earned its place as the most important tips and meaningful for our participated. 95% participated stated the stories teach us to love, forgive others, more confident, to be just and to strive for better than we have.It provides a shape, so that our own lives have a beginning, middle, and an end, and we can feel like we've meant something, and left our mark on the world.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Setra Kouch, Rodney McGee, Elizabeth Paulson,Net Phat, Lyda Morgan, Bora Leng, Rothana Walbolt, Tim Skog, David Zander, David Kang, Sokunthea Bentley
Project Manager
First Name
Rothana
Last Name
Walbolt
Organization Name
Minnesota Cambodian Communities Council
Street Address
6421 45th Ave N
City
Crystal
State
MN
Zip Code
55428
Phone
(763) 291-9997
Email
rwalbolt@mym3c.org
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

PO Box 14106
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 

Phone
Project Manager: Kathy Mouacheupao
651-645-0402
Email the Agency