Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Icebox Radio Theater Performance at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis.
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.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The Icebox Radio Theater will travel to Minneapolis’ Uptown District in April of 2019 to perform ‘The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories’ before a live audience at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Our purpose is to expand our audience by connecting with theater-goers in Minnesota’s largest urban center. We will gather information in the form of an audience survey and in informal interviews with the Bryant Lake Bowl technical and artistic staff. The goal will be to ascertain whether our group fits into the Twin Cities theater scene, what aspects of our live shows can be improved, and to see if the Icebox Radio Theater (IBRT) could benefit from regular trips to the Metro. In addition, there will be an informal gathering with the cast and crew within one month after the event to discuss what went right, what went wrong, and what could have been improved about the trip.
Our purpose for this project was to expand our audience by connecting with theater-goers in Minnesota's largest urban center. We accomplished this by performing at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis successfully. The show was held as a Sunday matinee and although the attendance was lower than we had hoped, the performance was one of the best we've ever done.
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