Flexible Support
Flexible Support
Hamlet
Cristeta Boarini: 826 MSP Program Director; Robyn Cline: City of Savage Economic Development Commissioner; Amanda Cortes: Artspace and Springboard for the Arts; Paul Creager: Square Lake Film and Music Festival Founder and Director; Adrienne Doyle: Juxtaposition Arts Tactical Lead and Development Associate; Craig Dunn: Access Consultant; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Interdisciplinary Artist and Sparkle Theatricals Creative Creative Director; Ryan-Olivia McCoy: Black Label Movement and Shapeshift dancer; Christal Moose: Native Arts Collaborative Agency and Native Pride Productions, Inc. Arts Manager and Artist; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Alejandra Pelinka: City of Bloomington Director of Creative Placemaking; Tommy Sar: Independent Consultant; Andrea Sjogren: Community Education; Lue Vang: McKnight Foundation Accountant; Sara Wilson: Lommen Abdo P.A. Attorney; Kate Walker: Valley Chamber Chorale Singer; Lauren White: Augsburg College Assistant Director of Leadership Gifts.
Breanna Cecile, General Management/ Administration/ Support, Education, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion; Daniela Bianchini, Artistic, Education, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion; Jes Reyes, Disabilities Specialist, General Administration, Artistic; Mally Watkins, Artistic, Education, Community Education.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
A reduction in geographic, cultural and/or physical barriers to arts participation; a change in knowledge, attitude, behavior or condition due to arts events; arts groups' are strengthened by connecting to their communities through the arts; artists expand and improve their work and the way in which they create it; artists connect to new audiences, building relationships that provide artistic growth. Interviews/Conversations with participants ; Interviews/Conversations with board/staff/leaders ; Community dialogue (group conversations with a large group) ; Observation
Emerging from pandemic and its restrictions, CAE proposed to stage Hamlet at the Elision Playhouse safely, so our audience could feel comfortable returning to an enclosed theater and the arts, and to extend this practice to our rehearsal process so our company too could rehearse and perform safely. Our remote rehearsals worked. Our masked and mostly distanced blocking rehearsals worked. We had no COVID incidents. We instituted a mask policy for attendance. Through both surveys and discussions with audience members during intermissions, we found an excited audience, happy to be back in the theater. We did lose a couple groups who objected to the mask requirement, though every major theater in the Twin Cities required them. The pandemic delay to our production from 2020 to 2021 cost us three BIPOC performers, so our goal of increasing BIPOC representation in both company (we had 2) and audience (7%) was not as robust as we had hoped. We did build new audience, as 43% were new to CAE.
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