Minnesota Festival Support
Minnesota Festival Support
The Irish Fair of Minnesota will present an Irish arts and culture festival in August 2019 on Harriet Island, Saint Paul, featuring over 150 musicians, 350 dancers, and staffed by over 550 dedicated volunteers.
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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Adrienne Dorn: CEO and founder, Horseet, a nonprofit consulting and innovative artist management firm; former executive director of the Cedar Cultural Center; Robin Gillette: Arts consultant; former executive director, Minnesota Fringe Festival; Jay Gilman: Associate director, MN Fringe Festival; Seth Kaempfer: Director of St Cloud State LGBT Resource Center, organizer of St Cloud Pride; Amanda Lien: Former executive director, Crookston Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitor's Bureau; James Robertson: Photographer; retired director of New York Mills Cultural Center; Iris Shiraishi: Composer, musician, and educator; founder of ensemble-MA for TaikoArts Midwest; Alejandra Tobar: Founder, People's Movement Center; consultant and performer with Pangea World Theater
ACHF Cultural Heritage
IFMN intends to increase student enrollment in Minnesota Irish music and dance programs through recruitment and engagement at the event. IFMN will collaborate with partner arts organizations to engage potential students at the fair. We will then conduct a survey with these partners 1-2 month after the event and again in 6-7 months. 2: Minnesota Irish musicians will build their audiences/following by performing for new audiences at the 2019 Irish Fair IFMN will conduct a survey with all Minnesotan musicians that perform at the event 1-2 months after to rate the experience they had and perceived impact of performing on bookings and audiences.
IFMN collaborated with the Center For Irish Music to increase its presence at Irish Fair and number and quality of programs in the Children's Area. Working directly with the staff at CIM, we hired a CIM instructor to lead the children's programming. CIM reported that 30% of their new students heard of CIM at Irish Fair. We hope to build on these results at future events. 2: Our artist survey indicated that 60% of our local artist felt that IFMN 'strongly increased' their audiences and 85% felt it 'increased.'. Irish Fair conducted a brief online survey with musicians after the Fair, and held a discussion round table in February. We hope to build on these results annually by working directly with artists to build bridges with attendees.
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