2024-11-11T20:24:17-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 920173835 ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP ALAS 9073323234 1600 Wolverine Street Anchorage AK 99504 John Damberg President 9073323234 2024-11-11 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X www.akjazzworkshop.org X X 92274 X 42458 48985 0 0 800 1056 -256 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 91218 0 0 0 86601 12213 2056 9581 110451 -19233 56601 0 37368 X 55140 46404 0 0 2776 3694 57916 50098 1315 12730 56601 37368 The Alaska Jazz Workshop is a 501 c (3) non-profit community service organization formed to cultivate a support and educational system for jazz music and increase community awareness of jazz music. Its mission will be accomplished by providing jazz education programs and field trips, by presenting student and professional concerts and by networking and complementing programs offered by other jazz organizations in communities throughout Alaska and beyond. AJW's 7/1/23 to 6/30/24 Activities and Accomplishments: The AK Jazz Workshop's Jazz Education program included 6 Jazz Combo Improvisation classes in the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Semesters with 38 grade 7-adult students in beginning to advanced combos. Students received 2 hours of weekly instruction in song writing, improvisation skills, music theory rhythmic & melodic dictation, Jazz History, developing standard song repertoire, and building communication skills. Instructors included John Damberg and Nick Petumenos. The July 31-August 5, 2023 AJW Jazz Camp included 5 beginning to advanced small combos for 36 grade 7 -adult students. Students received 25 hours of instruction in small combo communication, performance & improvisation skills, and song repertoire building. Instructors included John Damberg, Nick Petumenos, Mark Manners, Jacques Annandale, and Mark Walker. The AJW presented 5 student recitals to over 481 audience members. The AJW Faculty Jazz Ensemble, including 8 professional Alaska teachers/performers, presented 16 concerts/workshops to 651 students in the middle & high schools of the Anchorage and Mat-Su school districts. The concerts/workshops exposed students to the joy of creating music using jazz improvisation and to promote the AJW August 2023 Jazz Camp. The AJW also collaborated with the Anchorage Downtown Partnership to present 12 free outdoor jazz community concerts from 4-6 p.m. Saturdays from July 1-August 19, 2023 and June 1-29, 2024 at Peratrovich Park in downtown Anchorage. The concerts featured 17 local south central Alaska student & professional bands including the John Damberg Latin Jazz Quintet, the Blue Dixie Combo, AJW Student Jazz Ensembles, the Melissa Fischer Quintet, the Uno Jazz Orchestra, the Mark Manners Project, the Rick Zelinsky Quintet, Whereyat, the A Town Sharps, Power Play, Choice Bit of Calico, the Joe Craig Sextet, the Phil Knowlton Band, and the AJW Jazz Camp Faculty Sextet. The AJW awarded 7 full and half tuition waiver work scholarships to Cannon & Lincoln Kaniut, Demyan Baumgartner, Nathan Vaughn, Aiden Flanagan, Cart John Ancheta, and Dawson Brunquist for the AJW 2023 Jazz camp and for the Spring 2024 weekly jazz class valued at $2,200. Grants received: Alaska State Council on the Arts Harper Travel Grant of $3,258 on 12/19/23 to fund AJW Faculty Quintet Jazz Education Outreach February-March, 2024 performance tour to Valdez, Cordova, Homer, and Soldotna, AK, the Atwood Foundation Grant of $20,000 on 3/27/24 to support the AJW 2024 activities including the 2024 AJW Jazz Camp, the AJW Weekly Community Jazz Session expenses from July 1-October 27, 2024, the AJW Jazz Outreach Improvisation workshops in the schools program, and the AJW 2024 Jazz Concert Series at Peratrovich Park in Anchorage, AK. Community donations from the AJW & ADP Concerts in the Park totaled $1522 for the AJW Student Scholarship fund. Community sponsors and donors include the Atwood Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Rick and Cyndie Fox Foundation, Paul Paslay, Tim Petumenos, Monica Jenicek & Greg Lyall, Christina Gheen, Richard Rosenbloom, Patrice Krant, James Torgerson, and Carol Springer. Private donations totaled just under $17,600. 23258 106071 106071 John Damberg President 10 0 0 0 Mark Manners Director 0.5 0 0 0 Nicholas Petumanos Director 2 0 0 0 Cameron Cartland Secretary 0.5 0 0 0 Angela Dewey Treasurer 5 0 0 0 Yngvil Vatn Guttu Director 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 John Damberg 1600 Wolverine Street Anchorage AK 99504 9073323234 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 8784 28614 17047 63974 42458 160877 35637 19590 23605 39585 48985 167402 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44421 48204 40652 103559 91443 328279 0 0 0 0 0 0 7000 27000 0 0 20000 54000 7000 27000 0 0 20000 54000 274279 3 10 10 34 31 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 10 34 31 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 205 -256 -51 44424 48214 40662 103798 91218 328316 0.83541 0.87764 0.00027 0.00022 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Loss from sale of music equipment. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Bank Account Interest - $31.21 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Tuition Refunds $415; Jazz Camp Guest Artist- Airfare/Lodging $2055; Community Outreach Workshops/Concerts- Airfare $3604, Travel Insurance $220, Baggage Fees $325, Parking/Gas Fees $108; Liability Insurance $865; Advertising $15; Bank Charges- Stop Payment/New Checks $96; AK State Business License $25; Dues-Jazz Educators Network $125; Classroom Supplies- Notebooks, Music Book $225; Office Supplies - Paper, Toner $268; Concert Refreshments $224; 1099NEC Filing Fees $97; Depreciation Expense $847; Music Equipment- Amp Tubes, Patch Cords $67 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Prepaid Travel $1636; Prepaid Liability Insurance $919; Music Books $339; IMac Computer $356; Snare Drum Stand $48; Cymbal Stand $44; Hi-Hat Stand $120; PA Model 400S $232 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Accounts Payable $1980; Deferred Revenues $10750