Community Arts
Community Arts
Fakoly Drum and Dance Project Funding for the Fakoly Drum and Dance Project, providing opportunities to explore and experience traditional West African rhythm and movement with renowned master drummers and dancers. The June 2017 project includes dance and hand drumming workshops taught by local and visiting artists culminating in a public performance at the University of Minnesota's Barbara Barker Dance Center and Rarig Center.
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.
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First, artists who have volunteered their time in the past will be properly compensated for their work. And second, the size of the audience for the Saturday night performance will increase by 40% over last year. For our first outcome of artist payment, the outcome can be easily measured by checks cut to artists in 2017, while they received nothing in 2016. For our second outcome of increased audience size, we will compare our prior year's count of 142 to the 2017 audience count, which is easily tallied from online ticket sales (the majority) and at-the-door sales.
The most significant outcome was the largest audience and class sizes of Fakoly's ten-year history. We had proposed an audience increase of 40% over prior year, but we produced a 125% increase. The number of class participants was 32% more than prior year. This resulted in our second most significant outcome--fair financial compensation for artists who had volunteered their time in the past.
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