Community Arts
Community Arts
Our Town Sings! Funding for Our Town Sings!, a concert and community sing series celebrating the diversity and unity of the St Louis Park and Twin Cities communities. Five musical artists will each present an evening of music, leading the audience in singing, and educating attendees about the music of a particular culture strongly present in St Louis Park. All performances will take place at the Wolfe Park Veterans' Memorial Amphitheater in St Louis Park during June and July of 2017.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Bob Bierscheid: General administration, community service, organizational development; Stanton Wood: Fundraising, administration, artistic; Erin Lewis: Fundraising, organizational development, community education; Martha West: General administration, fundraising, community service; Julie Benda: Artistic; Rose Garcia: Artistic, community service, youth programming; Chris Cloud: Audience development, artistic, organizational development; Nathan Soland: Fundraising, general administration, organizational development; Paige Priolo: Organizational development, fundraising, community service.
ACHF Arts Access
We hope to have a cumulative total of 1,500 people attend our five nights of concerts and community sings. We hope that through audience surveys we will see that 75% of respondents learned about a culture or style of music that was previously unfamiliar to them. Because it is a free event, we will count the number of audience members in the amphitheater each night. We will have a survey that audience members can take before, during or after the performance, or if we receive their email address, we will send it to them electronically.
Over 100 participants from 9 groups participated as performers in the event, with multi-artist collaborations occurring in 3 of the 5 evenings, including 2 first-time collaborations that were designed specifically for this program. Over 750 audience members sang along with the performers in multiple languages. 100% of survey respondents expressed an interest in seeing similar events in the future.
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