Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
To produce Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" along with 2 Shakespeare Days for area high school students with performance and workshops.
Amy Ann Mursu: Musician, including piano, clarinet, tuba, and violin; Susan Kay: Retired Professor, Retreat Coordinator for New York Mills Arts Retreat; Erin Gunderson: Library Branch Manager in Breckenridge, musician and artist; Ann Hermes: Executive Director of Alexandria Area Arts Association; Andrew Sletten: Drummer, actor, organizer of community arts and performance space; James Arvidson: Community service volunteer; Barbara Lent: Former photography studio owner, textile artist, owner of quilting retreat center; Stan Goldade: High school math instructor, photographer, ceramicist, sculptor; Jeannie Pladsen: Retired Payroll Manger at the University of Minnesota-Morris, community leader.
Amy Ann Mursu: Musician, including piano, clarinet, tuba, and violin; Susan Kay: Retired Professor, Retreat Coordinator for New York Mills Arts Retreat; Erin Gunderson: Library Branch Manager in Breckenridge, musician and artist; Ann Hermes: Executive Director of Alexandria Area Arts Association Andrew Sletten: Drummer, actor, organizer of community arts and performance space; James Arvidson: Community service volunteer; Barbara Lent: Former photography studio owner, textile artist, owner of quilting retreat center; Stan Goldade: High school math instructor, photographer, ceramicist, sculptor; Jeannie Pladsen: Retired Payroll Manger at the University of Minnesota-Morris, community leader.
Lake Region Arts Council, Maxine Adams (218) 739-5780
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
To produce an approachable and exciting adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' which is compelling to our area audiences. To provide an opportunity for our audience to ask questions and discuss Shakespeare which will add to their understanding. To provide hands on workshops which reinforce the experience of the play and teach students unique skills not usually available to them in regular classes. To provide a quality Community Theatre production which will show the students and adults that they needn't be professional actors to participate in an enriching theatre arts experience. To plant the seed that the attendees may want to join in on the Community Theatre experience either onstage or backstage. 1. We will speak with attendees at our Q and A on opening night as well as surveying our audiences, we will agree that at least 60% of our audience members will respond positively and express whether or not their attitudes about Shakespeare have changed.
The participants in our Q&A were very complimentary about the performance. They had many questions for the actors and staff about the preparation to produce a work of Shakespeare including what it took to put the set together, as well as many other questi
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