Art & Culture Live!: Community Collaborations - Kenyan Music and Storytelling Program
Kenyan Music and Storytelling Program had Kenya native Anna Mwalagho and her band perform at the Rochester Public Library (Rochester, MN). Mwalagho and two musicians from Minneapolis performed her show which included singing, poetry, storytelling, and dancing.
Event Dates and Locations:
February 7, 2010 – Mwahlago performed at the Rochester Public Library (Rochester, MN)
Partner Organization(s): Kilimanjaro Entertainment
Partner Organization(s) Contribution/Role in the Program:
Kilimanjaro provided assistance with booking Mwalagho and setting up travel arrangements.
Program Outputs: Outputs are things you can count such as attendance, number of new participants, and the number of attendees who had never been at a similar event, and so on.
The program had 88 people attend, lower than expected.
Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, post-test; End user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status
On a scale of 1-5 with 5 as the highest, 71% of the 42 respondents thought it was a satisfactory program with 12% rating it a 4 and 16% rating it a 3. 98% agreed that they learned something new about Kenyan culture and music and90% agreed it gave a better understanding of Kenya and its people. Comments following the program included: “Too band there weren’t more people here,”“Amazingly refreshing,”“Promotes pride, understanding and therefore justice,” and“She gave a good perspective in any culture education.”