Community Arts
Community Arts
Funding for six Free Black Table open mic events, featuring the merging the artistic practices of presentation; community gathering and sharing; and entrepreneurship. The events will be held at Illusion Theater between December 2016 and October 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 Cultural Heritage
BlackTableArts wants to host six Free Black Table Open Mic's serving 250 audience members at each event. We wish to serve 65%, first-time performers. 80% of artists that perform got solid networking opportunities due to the event. 95% of audience members enjoyed themselves. We plan to measure our outcomes through post-performance feedback and participant surveys.
A few outcomes we saw were age diversity in our programming. People of various age ranges not only showed up but commented on how enriching it was to see performers of all ages take the stage. Another one was diversity in artistic mediums that performed at The Free Black Table Open Mic. We had not just poets but comedians, dancers and visual artists.
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