Arts and Cultural Heritage Community Arts Learning Grant

The goal is to enable individuals of all ages and family groups to experience the joy of singing together. Participants will develop music and performance skills by working with experienced music teachers/artists. Through exposure to their age-diverse fellow singers, participants will see singing as a lifelong activity. By learning Nordic music and singing songs in Nordic languages, participants will learn about culture through the arts. Participants will showcase their learning at two concerts - one during winter holidays and one in spring. Audience response will help evaluate project outcomes. Project leaders will also measure outcomes by participant growth and performance quality. We will be able to measure participation in our intergenerational chorus by the number of participants and their ages. Program leaders will measure participant growth by evaluating skills at the start of the project and comparing these with skills exhibited at the end of the project. Participants will monitor their own learning and evaluate their personal growth by written self-evaluations. Both artists and participants will fill out a project evaluation created and administered by the Nordic Center Board to determine the project’s success and potential for future development. Audience members will be encouraged to post comments on our Facebook page after concerts.