Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
Moving with Cancer.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at 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; 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, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Amy Dillahunt: Fundraising, general administration, organizational development; Toni Wilcox: Education, youth programming, volunteerism; Tommy Sar: Disabilities specialist, community service/development, education; Hawona Sullivan Janzen: Artistic, general administration, community education; Nic Soukup: General administration, finance, artistic; Melissa Clark: Artistic, community education, computer systems/web design; Cori Lin: Organizational development, artistic, community service/development; Sovanneary Phann Sweere: Youth programming, community service/development, artistic.
ACHF Arts Access
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater will offer a series of weekly movement/story workshops for patients, family members, and caregivers affected by cancer from Gilda's Club Twin Cities and other Twin Cities cancer groups. Participants will be able to share their stories about cancer's impact and to experience a shift in identity from "someone impacted by cancer" to "someone who has a powerful story to tell and a new set of creative tools to do so." In addition, they will experience a sense of connection, belonging, and community as they gain greater confidence through creative movement. Moving with Cancer will be evaluated using Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's detailed Evaluation Matrix which it implements to assess the success of all community projects. For this project, the Evaluation Matrix will include the following tools: Workshop evaluation forms; Electronic responses through Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's and Gilda's Club Twin Cities's websites, Facebook pages, and Survey Monkey; Select participant interviews; Feedback from audience during Q and A at Community Event; Debriefing sessions for Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater artists; Feedback from Gilda's Club Twin Cities staff.
When an artist is working in this type of community, the issues of life and death are ever present. A cancer diagnosis does not always end in death, but it is wholly understood that it could, and it may, and there is no real knowing, despite all medical advancements. Art affects lives, whether we have any idea how long those lives will be.
Other, local or private