Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
1. Bring Bedlam performances and events to a dozen or more new venues and neighborhoods throughout the Twin Cities. 2. Meet over 10,000 audience members new to Bedlam. 3. Invest in development of six distinct new projects that serve to strengthen artists' careers, deepen community connections, and reach diverse audiences. 4. Establish a timeline, capital feasibility, financing, and development plan for a permanent Bedlam home. 5. Strengthen organizational approach to fundraising in the near term and reinforce our successes with diversified earned revenue and reduce-reuse resourcefulness for long-term sustainability. Conduct an organization-wide appreciative inquiry, employ SWOT analysis, logic models, SMART goals, and other techniques. Have weekly check-ins with staff and gather artists in bimonthly “town halls.”
1. Bedlam Theatre presented shows and events at ten "Bedlam-ized" venues in four neighborhoods. 2. Bedlam brought in nearly 3,400 new audience members and participants with dozens of events throughout the Twin Cities. 3. Bedlam created and produced three full-length plays and five original short work cabarets and developed plans for five future community-based projects. 4. A venue in Lowertown, Saint Paul, will open fall 2012 with $400,000 invested by city and private funders, as the Bedlam Community Design
Other, local or private