Community Arts
Community Arts
Orono International Festival Funding for the Orono International Festival, an annual fall arts festival in which community members share the arts and culture of their heritage through country booths, folk arts, costumes and displays. Five to seven performing arts groups will share music and dances from around the world at this event which attracts approximately 600-700 attendees. The festival will be held in October 2017 at Otten Brother's Nursery in Orono.
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
The goals of this festival include exposing 600-700 attendees to the rich arts and culture of countries around the world by through engaging local and metro performing arts groups and highlighting local residents through 20 country displays, manned by local residents that live or work in our community and represent an amazing variety of ethnic backgrounds. Our goal is to celebrate the rich artistic and cultural traditions of all members of the community and to help bridge the gap between new immigrants and longtime residents through pre-festival workshops and the International Festival held in October of 2017. Evaluation of the International Festival is done through tracking the number of participants, attendees and the quality of their experience. Follow-up surveys to artists and volunteers give invaluable information to the project leaders. Photographs are taken to visually document the event and the success of this project is measured by strong participation and changes in attitude and relationships.
600 people attended the festival or pre workshops. Responses from participants were very positive. Everyone who participated as an artist this year wants to return again next year and multiple youth want to be on the planning committee.
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