Creative Intersections
The Veterans Play Project
Funding for The Veterans Play Project, a live performance project designed to illuminate the veteranÆs story. The project will be developed and performed in part by local veterans with the goal of expanding understanding of the veteranÆs experience of war, trauma and disability.
Lia Rivamonte: Executive Director, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts; Kersten Elverum: City of Hopkins, Director of Planning and Development; Jun-Li Wang: Artist Community Organizer, Springboard for the Arts; John Bueche: Bedlam Theatre; Jessica Briggs: Program Manager, Ananya Dance Theatre; Steve Boland: Loan Officer, Nonprofits Assistance Fund.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Access
To enlighten, empower, and inspire both community-based theatre actors and veterans; to give veterans a venue to come together, share stories, and begin healing; to value the contributions of veterans and foster an environment for them to create the best possible stagecraft and storytelling.Community feedback of drafts; feedback from veterans, performers, and staff.
Through theater arts, veterans expressed their diverse perspectives on their experiences.
Other, local or private