Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Good Harbor Hill Players 2019 Summer Solstice Pageant.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate; Johnnie Hyde: choreographer and dance teacher, publisher; Rena Hartman: executive director, Mesabi Community Orchestra.
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Drew Digby (218) 722-0952
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The Pageant will engage community members and visitors working with the Good Harbor Hill Players in the development of an original theme and story board, drawing, painting, sculpting and constructing large-scale puppets, choreographing scenes, and learning the art of stilt walking. 8- ten community workshops will begin in mid-May. All workshops will be free of charge. Our outcomes are to engage our community in public art and seasonal events and to encourage their ideas and participation. Outcomes are measurable in the numbers of workshop participants and audience members attending the show. We evaluate our project by soliciting comments from audience members and workshop/ performance participants. We video the performance and review it for the purpose of evaluating overall flow of the performance, technical issues, audience reaction and visual and musical merit.
The Good Harbor Hill Payers' goal is to bring our neighbors together to celebrate Life, as experienced in various seasons, the natural world, and the history and lore of our home here on Lake Superior. Measurable outcomes include our continued ability to attract both citizen artists and audience members from diverse backgrounds and age groups. Most importantly, we work to create an original, colorful, often topical, puppet pageant, to entertain and inspire our neighbors. This year's pageant was titled "Let's Go Camping". Our theme this year concerned the restorative, therapeutic and invigorating effects of a family canoe trip. The performance featured live music by Gamepalaj, an eleven piece band directed by Barb LaVigne, performers on stilts the a wide array of puppets and masks. Over fifty individuals attended our free puppet workshops, where we created the puppets, masks and costumes used in the performance. Almost all of these workshop volunteers continued on to rehearsal, and performed in the pageant. Over 1000 people attended the final performance. As of this writing our 2019 Summer Pageant is not yet posted on YouTube. There were some technical difficulties which have delayed the editing and posting. Our video guy is working on it, and sometime soon we expect to add this year's show to others on YouTube. Search Summer Solstice Puppet Pageant. 2019 Grand Marais.
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