Folk and Traditional Arts
Folk and Traditional Arts
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hamline's Office of Diversity Integration will present a series of public concerts, lectures, and workshops by three traditional Asian musical groups based in Minnesota: Nirmala Rajasekar and Friends performing south Indian carnatic music; Joko Sutrisno and the Sumunar Javanese Gamelan; and Silk and Bamboo: Chinese Music Untouched performing traditional Chinese instrumental music.
Judson Bemis Jr.: Actor, arts administrator, founder and principal of Clere Consulting. Secretary, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Marys University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.; John Gunyou, City manager, Minnetonka.; Benjamin Klipfel: Board member, Minnesota State Arts Board. Executive Director, Alexandria Area Arts Association, Inc. Director and arts educator.; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Pamela Perri: Executive vice president, Builders Association of Minnesota.; Margaret Rapp: Former educator, Saint Paul Academy and Summit School. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Anton Treuer: Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University.
Elizabeth Bucheit: Visual artist, jewelry and metalwork; Nicolas Carter: Harpist, performer of Latin American music, Fulbright Scholar, Teaching artist; Tamara Nadel: Founding member, Ragamala Dance; Timothy Sparks: Musician, guitarist; Kimberly Sueoka: Vocalist, specializing in Hawaiian music; instructor and artist in residence; Gwen Westerman Wasicuna: Professor of English and humanities, Minnesota State University Mankato. Poet and fiber artist.; Greg Wright: Executive director, North House Folk School
ACHF Cultural Heritage
We have chosen three Asian musical traditions (Cambodian, Javanese, and South Indian) to present, to help expand their reach and our community's access to them. We are offering three to five public events for each of the three musical traditions, with an expected total of nine to fifteen events. The participatory events are designed to give audiences meaningful hands-on experiences with the musical cultures and direct access to the musicians and other volunteers from their cultural communities. We will evaluate the number of events and participation levels of audience members. 2: We will offer an accessible way to expose local residents to, and increase their understanding and enjoyment of, musical cultures, and bring recognition to the musicians. We will evaluate our audience engagement by assessing formal concert and non-formal participatory and lecture situations. We will measure our success reaching neighborhood community groups and campus populations to engage a broad and large audience.
Our traditional music and dance activities did increase the number available to the public and especially in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul. The professional evaluator interviewed many stakeholders in this project and found that most felt these activities were new and unusual in their breadth. 2: Only one-third to one-half of the audience members were already followers of the various artists or art forms which we presented, so the rest were all new audiences for them. The professional evaluation shows that participants felt many people, students and children involved with the project activities were being newly exposed.
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