Community Arts
Community Arts
Cimarron Youth Breakdancing Project Funding for the Cimarron Youth Breakdancing Project, which will offer 20 youth ages 13-18 living in Lake Elmo's Cimarron mobile home community the opportunity to learn the basics of breakdancing from professional breaker and certified coach Joseph "Minnesota Joe" Tran. The project will consist of eight weekly, one-hour sessions in April and May 2017 and will culminate in a youth performance. All sessions and the youth performance will be held at Cimarron Youth Center in L
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.
Stephani Atkins: Youth programming, volunteerism, artistic; Rachel Bender: General administration, community service, development, youth programming; Janelle Doyle: Education, community education, youth programming; Paul Eastwold: Disabilities specialist, education, general management, administration; Bob Graff: Education, general management, administration, youth programming; Alejandra Iannone: Artistic, education, youth programming; Larry Neumann: Education, community education; Jeanne Schwartz: General administration, fundraising, organizational development; Christy Spillman George: General administration, organizational development, audience development, marketing.
ACHF Arts Access
In offering the Arts Exploration Workshop, we seek 4 outcomes: youth view the arts as an enjoyable, attractive activity; youth learn new skills; youth produce satisfying products, and; youth believed they had a caring, supportive environment to work in. We will consider this project successful if at least 75% of surveyed Workshop participants feel they have expanded or improved their artistic skills, learned something new about art, and/or considered art an enjoyable experience. To measure progress toward these outcomes, we will survey Workshop participants at the end of the grant period.
The 7-10 teens that really got into the program not only learned new skills, but put those skills and the knowledge they gained to use by creating their own unique routines, which has been fun and rewarding to watch develop. They will perform a dance routine that they will showcase for friends and family at FamilyMeans Cultural Night in October.
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