Minnesota Festival Support
The Minneapolis Monarch Festival celebrates the monarch butterfly's annual 2,300 mile migration from Minnesota to Mexico. Taking place in September on the shores of Lake Nokomis, the festival will use music, dance, and the visual arts to create cultural connections and inspire conservation.
ACHF Cultural Heritage
At least five different music or dance groups will be featured at the 2013 Monarch Festival. The Festival organizers will document the number and variety of performers that are featured at the event. 2: Hands-on art activities will engage a minimum of 2,500 festival participants. Festival organizers will track and document the number of participants at each hands-on art learning activity.
The 2013 Minneapolis Monarch Festival presented a variety of Minnesota artists. The stage featured American folk music, traditional Aztec dance, blues and funk, rock n' roll, Caribbean, and salsa music (Silva Sol, Machinery Hill, Kalpulli KetzalCoatilcue, RAMM, Charanga Tropical, Salsa del Soul). Art activities led by visual artists included printmaking with a steamroller, pinata making, mixed media collage, printing with plants, plein aire drawing, cut paper, and stencil making. We evaluated this outcome based on artist-identified genre being presented on stage, and visual artist hands-on learning activity that was led at the festival. 2: In spite of the 93 degree heat, the Minneapolis Monarch Festival served an estimated 8,000 people. This estimate is based on observations by the Festival planning team members and discussion with food vendors. With additional input from Spanish speaking artists and vendors, we estimate that almost half of Festival participants were Latino. The weather prediction of intense heat skewed the time at which people arrived at the Festival; there was a veritable onslaught early in the day, even before the Festival's official start time. The heat also pushed people into the shade which made it harder to utilize photographs to estimate crowd size.
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