Community Arts
Community Arts
Alma Folklorica Dance Ensemble Community Tour Funding for Alma Folklorica Dance Ensemble's Community Tour. A youth performing dance ensemble comprised mainly of children from Latino descent will perform six one-hour long ethnic/folkloric dance presentations from April to November 2017 at Lagos Restaurant in Long Lake, the Gillepsie Senior Center in Mound, Trails of Orono senior living facility, Wayzata Public Library, Corn Days Festival in Long Lake, and Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners in Plymouth.
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.
Mica Anders: General administration; Maya Beck: Artistic, general administration, community service, development; Andi Cheney: Organizational development, general administration, finance; Tia-Simone Gardner: Artistic, youth programming, community service, development; Alneida Madrigal: General administration, organizational development, youth programming; Laura Nahri: Fundraising, general management, administration, organizational development; Ricardo Vazquez: Artistic, audience development, marketing, community education; Magnolia Yang Sao Yia: Artistic, community education, youth programming.
ACHF Arts Access
We hope to achieve the following: At least 2000 people attended one of the six presentations given by the performing artists. The audience showed through a post-presentation survey that their knowledge of both global traditional folkloric dance forms and the local persons who perform them have increased by 90%. We will evaluate by doing an audience/participation count at each performance. We also will seek post-performance feedback from the organizations which host the performance as well as seek input from the audience through both written and informal surveys.
More than 2000 people attended the various performances. All 18 of the youth dancers in Alma shared their cultural heritage with their community and engaged youth, elderly and persons from different economic backgrounds through traditional Mexican dance. 90% of the audiences had never seen or experienced Mexican cultural dance or had an opportunity to share cross-culturally through the arts.
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