Arts Tour Minnesota
Arts Tour Minnesota
Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health will tour Fidgety Fairy Tales-The Mental Health Musicals to the Reif Arts Center and the Grand Rapids area chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness to raise awareness about children's mental health in Grand Rapids.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Member of the Smithsonian National Board. Former chair of the board, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Officer at -Large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse, Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Delon Lyren: Professor of high brass and jazz, Bemidji State University; also assistant festival director, JENerations Jazz Festival; Brian Malloy: A novelist, teaching artist with the Loft, and adjunct faculty member at the U and Hamline; Margaret McCreary: Puppeteer, artist/educator; Arts Board grantee; Maya Washington: Filmmaker, writer, performer, and arts educator
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Audiences will gain empathy and understanding of children with mental health disorders. Each performance includes a post-show discussion. Notes will be taken. A post-performance survey will also ask questions about change in attitudes, empathy, and understanding. 2: The performances will reach audiences that don't typically attend musical theatre by performing at sites where communities already gather. Post-performance surveys will ask questions about audience members' previous experience with going to musical theatre performances.
Audiences gained empathy and understanding of children with mental health disorders. Post-performance discussion questions asked audience members to identify the symptoms of the disorders, to describe how characters with disorders felt, and to share what they learned about mental health. 2: Performances reached audiences that don't typically attend musical theatre by performing at sites where communities already gather. Post-performance discussion questions asked audiences to share how much experience they have had with theatre, dance, and music and gave them the opportunity to ask questions about the creation process.
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