Community Arts
Community Arts
Journey Productions-Children's March Funding for the 2017 Winter Theatre Experience, a 15 week audition based performing arts program in North Minneapolis for youth between the ages of 7 and 18 to learn about history through the performing arts. The program culminates in public performances of The Children's March at the Tex Box Theatre in March of 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.
Denise Prosek: Artistic, administration; Jeanne Morales: Finance, artistic, fundraising; Edie Abnet: Artistic; Jessie Roelofs: Education; Liz Lassiter: Youth programming, artistic, community education; Brittany Lynch: Artistic, organizational development, community service; Maja Wheeler: Artistic, general administration; Mike Alberti: Artistic, education, finance; Tom Loftus: General administration, audience development, artistic.
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative: We proposed that we will have between 85-250 people in attendance at the performances by the 30 youth artists. Qualitative: Participants will advance their artistic ability as practicing performing and visual artists and will demonstrate their knowledge through a public presentation of their collective and individual work. Create artistic works that clearly demonstrate their ability to connect literature, visual, dance, and poetry to performance arts and theatrical set design. Articulate and act upon their learning goals beyond the scope of the project. Present their work through informal and formal artistic presentations. Know the connection that exists between their artistic community and the impact that the Children's March had on the Civil Rights movement. Know performance art vocabulary. Attendance tallies, performance/ set design assessment, formal observations, pre-and -post surveys and post-performance feedback. Outgoing email surveys are delivered regularly through services such as Survey Monkey.
There were 450 people that attended the 4 day run of the play presented by 35 performing artists. The audience response cards showed that 72% of respondents experienced this art form for the first time and 97% of the participants indicated their ability to express themselves creatively was enhanced due to the overall process.
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