Community Arts
Community Arts
2017 Summer Youth Outreach Week Funding for the ninth annual Summer Youth Outreach Week, offering 45 advanced student musicians the opportunity to learn from professional orchestra musicians as they rehearse and play a concert of a major symphonic work plus a new composition by an emerging student artist. The free, public concert will be held at the Lake Harriet Bandshell in Minneapolis in July 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.
Sarah Gerdes: Youth programming, artistic, general administration; Frangena Johnson: Artistic, community education, audience development, marketing; Laney Ohman: Audience development, marketing, computer systems, web design, fundraising; Dan Pinkerton: Education, artistic, computer systems, web design; Suzanne Roberts: Artistic, community education, education; Gregory Rose: Artistic, education, community education; Lula Saleh: Artistic; Jovan Speller: Artistic, general administration, community education; Carla Steen: Artistic, audience development, marketing.
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative outcomes include an estimated 45 advanced student musicians participating in Youth Outreach Week, providing work for 27 professional musicians hired to participate, and (weather cooperating) performing for an estimated 2,000 attendees at the free family concert. Qualitative outcomes are for 95% of student musicians indicating their ability to express themselves musically was enhanced, and 15% of attendees responding to surveys indicating they experienced a Sinfonia concert and/or a classical music concert for the first time through this activity. Minnesota Sinfonia staff will evaluate outcomes through printed surveys distributed to attendees at the concert, and through online "Survey Monkey" survey sent to students and orchestra musicians. Results of the surveys will be evaluated with data used to inform future programming.
We provided work for 27 musicians and about 2,000 people attended the concert. 28 participants completing survey said the week was: 56% Inspiring, 89% Educational, 26% Difficult, 7% Frustrating, and 78% Awesome! They learned: "how a professional orchestra rehearsal works," "I could play much harder music than I thought" and "My technique and ability to prepare and practice efficiently improved."
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