Community Arts
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Savage Umbrella
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2012
End Date
July 2012
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Project Overview
Care Enough
Project Details
Funding to produce and stage Care Enough, a new play about love in a time of protest that explores questions of power, responsibility and obligation in both personal and political spheres. Performances will take place at Nimbus Theater in Minneapolis in June 2012.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Tim J. Peterson: Director of Marketing and Operations, Cantus; Jeanne Junge: Artistic Director, Sounds of Hope; Anne Bertram: Managing Director, Theatre Unbound; Caitlin Hargarten: Managing Director, Stevens Square Center for the Arts; Walken Schweigert: Ensemble Member, Unseen Ghost Brigade; Peter Thompson: Artistic Director, Art Shanty Projects; Tanaegh Haddad: Arts Coordinator, Womens' Initiative for Self Empowerment; Christina Marie Ham: Playwright, The Playwrights' Center; Pete Driessen: Curator and Director, TuckUnder Projects.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
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.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Project Details: 2012 Fiscal Year
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language
ACHF Arts Access
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$4,530
Direct expenses
$9,530
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
Audiences and performers will be emotionally and artistically challenged by the creation and performance of a new play about love in a time of protest.Audience surveys and post-performance talkback sessions.
Measurable Outcome(s)
Topically, the show resonated with audiences and artists, leaving both energized and moved by the performance.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Recipient Board Members
Candy Bilyk, Blake Bolan, Tanner Curl, Amber Davis, Russ Dugger, Hannah Holman, Heidi Jedlicka, Laura Leffler, Christina Lein, Rachel Nelson, Carl Atiya Swanson
Project Manager
First Name
Laura
Last Name
Leffler-McCabe
Organization Name
Savage Umbrella
Street Address
3134 Lincoln St NE
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55418
Phone
(913) 461-5325
Email
savageumbrella@gmail.com
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