Just had a great meeting with one of my mentors and they suggested that I make it clear what I do for my employer and what I do as a volunteer for the Aboriginal Music Manitoba (Aboriginal Music Week) organization. The aboriginalmusic.ca website will include the following information for Manitoba Music and the aboriginalmusicweek.ca and ammb.ca websites will feature the information listed in the second half of my post. FOR MANITOBA MUSIC: Alan Greyeyes is employed full time as Manitoba Musics Aboriginal Music Program Manager. His role includes the planning and delivery of workshops, showcases, marketing initiatives, and development projects to help First Nation, Métis, and Inuit people build careers in Manitobas music industry. Greyeyes takes direction from the Aboriginal Music Program Steering Committee for all programming decisions and utilises the experience and insight of music industry experts to adjudicate all showcasing, marketing, and development opportunities. Greyeyes is a member of the music committee for MuchFACT and the chair of the screening committee for the Aboriginal Album of the Year at the JUNO Awards. As a volunteer, Greyeyes is the chairperson for a non-profit organization called Aboriginal Music Manitoba, which produces the Aboriginal Music Week festival. The festival is not a project that Manitoba Music produces and Greyeyes role with Aboriginal Music Manitoba is not a part of his duties at Manitoba Music. In 2013, Greyeyes was honoured with the Future Leaders of Manitoba award for his contributions to the arts. Greyeyes is a member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. He graduated from Trent University in 2002 with a B.A. majoring in Economics and was featured on the cover of the Spring 2013 edition of the universitys alumni magazine. FOR ABORIGINAL MUSIC MANITOBA (ABORIGINAL MUSIC WEEK): Alan Greyeyes is the volunteer chairperson of Aboriginal Music Manitoba (AMM). Greyeyes fulfils the roles and responsibilities of the organizations executive direction while it develops the financial capacity to hire staff (the organization currently spends all the money it raises on artist fees, production, and marketing for the festival). AMM produces the Aboriginal Music Week festival each year in Winnipeg. The main goal of the festival is to develop Aboriginal youth as an audience for live music and it enlists the support of great partners like the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, the Spence Neighbourhood Association, and the Picnic in the Park committee to take outstanding live music experiences to less-advantaged neighbourhoods in Winnipegs inner city. This year (2014) close to 750 youth and Elders took in a free concert and enjoyed a free BBQ at the Turtle Island Neighbourhood Centre, while close to 3,000 people participated in Picnic in the Park, and 250 young people came out for the Spence Neighbourhood Block Party at the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre. Greyeyes is skilled at completing funding applications, creating and pitching sponsorship packages, drafting and executing service agreements, managing suppliers, directing marketing campaigns, producing events, and creating and monitoring budgets. He brings these skills to the organization and festival and works hard to help the rest of the AMM board develop similar skills. Under Greyeyes leadership AMM has develop a comprehensive policy guide and a set of custom by-laws along with guiding documents like a needs assessment and strategic plan. Greyeyes also creates the business plan for the festival each year along reports for each board meeting, reports for all funders and partners, and the organizations annual report. Aboriginal Music Week is not produced by Manitoba Music and Greyeyes work with AMM is done on evenings and weekends. The festival recently wrapped up its sixth year and the organization is extremely proud to say that it has paid a total of $168,258.97 to artists for performance fees since 2009 and has entertained a total of 28,535 people since its inception. Aboriginal Music Week was honoured with the Manitoba Tourism Award for Aboriginal Tourism in 2010 after its inaugural year. In 2013, Greyeyes was honoured with the Future Leaders of Manitoba award for his contributions to the arts. Greyeyes is a member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. He graduated from Trent University in 2002 with a B.A. majoring in Economics and was featured on the cover of the Spring 2013 edition of the universitys alumni magazine.
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