Opportunity Grant
Opportunity Grant
Pinewood Summer Poetry Slam
Kjel Alkire: art faculty, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota; John Becker: arts business owner; Hal Cropp: Executive Director, Commonweal; Daved Driscoll: Artistic Director, Words Players; Julie Fakler: Director of Operations, Paradise Center; Drue Fergison: linguist, writer; Lee Gundersheimer: Managing Director, Great River Shakespeare Festival; Paula Michel: Harmony Arts Board; Connie Nelson: music educator; Jane Olive: costumer; Judy Saye-Willis: fiber artist; Steve Schmidt: musician, arts administrator.
John Becker: arts business owner; Julie Fakler: arts administrator; Drue Fergison: linguist, writer.
ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
This activity will provide access to the performing arts for all of our Pinewood Summer School students. This interactive experience will build a relationship with both our minority and majority status students and the male, Mexican-American poet. Interviews with staff and students. Written reflection by students.
My goals were met. Students were able to experience both performance poetry and poetry creation. They were able to have access to a poet from a traditionally under represented population.
Other, local or private