Community Arts
Hot Summer Jazz Festival
Funding for the Hot Summer Jazz Festival, a three-day jazz festival featuring local and world-renowned jazz artists. The festival will take place at Mears Park in downtown St Paul in June 2012.
Daniel Adolphson: Director of Program Engagement, COMPAS-Community Programs in the Arts; Susan Fisher: Executive Director, Minnesota Brass; Janet Grove: Arts administrator, NDI Backyard Productions; David Harris: Executive Director, Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council; Andrew Leitch: Community development consultant; Mankwe Ndosi: Musician; Liz Neerland: Arts administrator, Nimbus Theatre; Gary Peterson: Arts administration consultant.
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
Add to cultural impact in Twin Cities through free performances.Assessment of audiences feedback and numbers by project directors and board.
Great crowds of music-lovers from the Twin Cities and beyond drank in this free jazz experience, many of whom expressed their pleasure in the culturally expanding performances.
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