Operating Support
Operating Support
To pay for site rentals; set construction shop and rehearsal/performance space in 2017.
Amy Ann Mursu: Musician, including piano, clarinet, tuba, and violin; Carolyn Flieder: Fiber artist, former quilt shop owner; 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; James Arvidson: Community service volunteer; Jamie Beyer: Public Administrator, marketing and graphic designer; 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; Michael Weatherly: Visual Artist, Printmaker; Jeff Merrick: Grant County Courthouse Site Manager; Delayne Karls: Retired teacher, arts advocate; W Scott Olsen: Professor of English at Concordia College.
Amy Ann Mursu: Musician, including piano, clarinet, tuba, and violin; Carolyn Flieder: Fiber artist, former quilt shop owner; 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; James Arvidson: Community service volunteer; Jamie Beyer: Public Administrator, marketing and graphic designer; 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; Michael Weatherly: Visual Artist, Printmaker; Jeff Merrick: Grant County Courthouse Site Manager; Delayne Karls: Retired teacher, arts advocate; W Scott Olsen: Professor of English at Concordia College.
ACHF Arts Access
To provide young people with a unique, educational, vocational and multigenerational summer theatre experience with no participation fee. The Gooseberry Park Players focus on productions created specifically for a youth theatre company ages 11 to 18, based on classic and contemporary dramatic literature designed to inform, educate and entertain a family audience of all ages. Gooseberry Park Players and its board members are continually evaluating and discussing the opportunity we provide youth actors and the performances we produce for the community. The full board meets monthly to do needs assessment and prepare for that year's production. We ask cast, crew, and parents to fill out evaluation forms at the end of each season. We measure our success on a quantitative level by monitoring ticket sales, audition numbers, youth participation and comments we received from the audience, cast, and parents. The Gooseberry Park Players board uses these evaluative response in considering the next year's production and staffing.
We feel we met or exceeded every goal including striving for 100% family participation, where each family volunteers their time toward making the production a success. We tracked volunteer hours for each family throughout the process and every family did volunteer a substantial number of hours. Over 4506 volunteer hours were contributed by families and board members in producing the show this season.
Other, local or private