Community Arts
AllÆs Fair
Funding to develop and stage AllÆs Fair, an original theatrical production built out of improvisation, movement, music and text, to be performed at the Southern Theater in spring 2012.
Carin Bratlie: Producer, Theatre Pro Rata; Shauna Dee: Arts administrator, FORECAST Public Art; Meaghan Disciorio: Director, Swandive Theatre; Craig Dunn: Executive Director, VSA Minnesota; Robin Gillette: Executive Director of Minnesota Fringe Festival; Mary Elizabeth Lee: Managing Director, Cantus vocal ensemble; Louis Porter II: Literary artist and college instructor; Jeanne Souldern: Administrator and communications coordinator, Women's Art Resources of Minnesota; Maryam Yusefzadeh: Musician.
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
3,000 people will be challenged by new ways to see and experience theatre arts, and performers will be challenged to create new improvisational theatre.Post-performance lobby conversations; talkback session; ticket sales numbers.
Successfully combined the skills of seasoned and emerging performers in a commedia vaudeville piece; audience reported being challenged and stimulated by the piece.
Other, local or private