Community Arts
Community Arts
Funding for Intersections, an interdisciplinary Somali arts performance incorporating spoken word poetry, story telling, music, a play, and a post performance discussion panel. Programming will take place at The Southern Theater in June 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
We will engage 150 Youth Participants, 450 Adult Participants and 20 Adult Artists benefitting from this project. We anticipate that more than 50% of the public attendees experience this art form for the first time. We will evaluate the project's success by the number of youth that participate, the feedback from youth participants via a survey, the number of audience members that attend the public presentation, and the feedback from audience members via a surveys.
During the project, we were able to engage 20 artists, 50 Youth Participants, and 450 Adult Participants. 90% of our participants have said that this was their first time experiencing such a program within the Somali community. This type of program was never done before within the Somali community. People were able to learn many new things that they didn't know before, especially the non-Somalis.
Other, local or private