Community Arts
Carifest
Funding for Carifest, a two-day arts extravaganza featuring Caribbean music, storytelling, dance, cuisine, and a Carnival-style parade. The family-friendly event will take place in Minneapolis in July 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
100 artists and 5,000 attendees will experience Caribbean culture through dance, music, crafts and food.Attendee numbers; project directors meet after event to assess audience engagement.
Carifest recorded its largest and most diverse crowd in its 20 year history with over 7000 attendees; increased attendance by families and young people; strengthened connections between Caribbean and other local communities.
Other, local or private