Project Grant
Project Grant
Music of our Heart-Land will be a public folk-art musical performance. The program will focus on education, preservation and enjoyment of Polish, German and Czech music featuring regional performing artists.
Buddy King: CMAB Board Char, St Cloud Playwright, percussionist, teaching artist, engaged in numerous youth arts initiatives in the community; Sean Donahue: CMAB Board Tresurer, Performing arts technician; Professional light and sound designer, operator and trainer; Musician with musical instrument, equipment retail experience; Large event and project manager; Joyce Lyons: CMAB Board Secretary, CMA actress, singer, educator, member of Buffalo Comm Orchestra Advisory Board; Denise Todd: CMAB Board Member, Dance Valdosta State University; U.S. Air Force Veteran, Geospatial Intelligence Analyst; undergraduate at St. Cloud State University pursuing a Major in Community Health; Jo McMullen-Boyer: CMAB Board Member, Station Manage of KVSC Radio, Grant writer, Music Concert Projucer, Community Events Organizer; Spencer Madsen: CMAB Board Member, Writer; educator; theatrical performer; aspiring filmmaker and visual artist; B.A. in English Education; M.A. in American Literature; orchardist at Clear Lake Cider; Tanya Piatz-Sandberg: CMAB Board Member, Visual Merchandiser with 3D display experience, fashion, event execution, and corporate shop concepts; 2D visual artist specializing in illustration and photography
Buddy King: CMAB Board Char, St Cloud Playwright, percussionist, teaching artist, engaged in numerous youth arts initiatives in the community; Sean Donahue: CMAB Board Tresurer, Performing arts technician; Professional light and sound designer, operator and trainer; Musician with musical instrument, equipment retail experience; Large event and project manager; Joyce Lyons: CMAB Board Secretary, CMA actress, singer, educator, member of Buffalo Comm Orchestra Advisory Board; Denise Todd: CMAB Board Member, Dance Valdosta State University; U.S. Air Force Veteran, Geospatial Intelligence Analyst; undergraduate at St. Cloud State University pursuing a Major in Community Health; Jo McMullen-Boyer: CMAB Board Member, Station Manage of KVSC Radio, Grant writer, Music Concert Projucer, Community Events Organizer; Spencer Madsen: CMAB Board Member, Writer; educator; theatrical performer; aspiring filmmaker and visual artist; B.A. in English Education; M.A. in American Literature; orchardist at Clear Lake Cider; Tanya Piatz-Sandberg: CMAB Board Member, Visual Merchandiser with 3D display experience, fashion, event execution, and corporate shop concepts; 2D visual artist specializing in illustration and photography
ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our measurable outcomes for participants participating in this folk art program are: Arts access: at least 80% of participants will identify as older adults, rural residents and students who are under-served and have limited access to arts programming. This will be accomplished by promoting the event through to our target audience through media outlets that have demonstrated the ability to reach this audience. This includes The Enterprise Post newspaper, KASM radio, Helping Hands Outreach and posters throughout the community. Arts learning: more than 150 residents of rural northeast Stearns County will develop a clearer sense of how local ethnic folk music impacted their culture and history and how they can help preserve it. This will be accomplished by working with the performing artists to develop a program that includes audience participation in sharing stories and history of the local ethnic music and its history. Community: at least 50% of participants will share through interviews and surveys that these programs motivated them to help preserve and share their cultural heritage. This will be accomplished by conducting formal surveys and informal surveys with members of the audience. ; Eighty percent will be under served older adults and rural residents with limited access to arts programming. 150 attendees will better understand the importance of local ethnic folk music to their lives. We will interview and interact with attendees to gauge their reaction to the events. We will intentionally observe both verbal and non-verbal comments and messages of appreciation. We will take photos at the events to help observe reactions. We will track attendance by gathering the names of those who attend each event. We will conduct one-on-one surveys of a representative number of participants in the program series. These surveys will gather information on what aspects of each program they valued the most and how we can improve and expand future arts programming. We will review this information and use it to help us determine future opportunities for offering arts programming within the community.; We will interview and interact with attendees. We will intentionally observe both verbal and non-verbal comments. We will take photos at the events. We will track attendance. We will conduct one-on-one surveys.
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