Art & Culture Live!: Community Collaborations - World Film Series @ Your Library
World Film Series @ Your Library is ongoing and had not reached completion by either the end of the fiscal year or the due date of this report. It is a multi-cultural film series consisting of five film showings a month over a period of ten months at the Owatonna Public Library (Owatonna, MN) and their branch library in Blooming Prairie. The films are selected from a variety of genres with an emphasis on motion pictures not exhibited at local cinemas. The goal is to provide the community with the opportunity to view films from many world cultures as part of a broad and diverse film going audience and to enhance awareness and understanding of different cultures through the art of film.
Event Dates and Locations:
March 23, 2010 – First film presentation at the Owatonna Public Library (Owatonna, MN)
December 2010 – Completion of the film series at the Owatonna Public Library (Owatonna, MN) and the Blooming Prairie Branch Library (Blooming Prairie, MN)
Partner Organization(s):
Owatonna Human Rights Commission
Owatonna SeniorPlace
United Way
Partner Organization(s) Contribution/Role in the Program: SeniorPlace and the Owatonna HRC are assisting in program development and advertising. The United Way created pre-test and post-test surveys for film goers and will conduct a focus group at the end of subgrant.
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.
As of September 17, 2010, 12 films have been shown at the Library and 6 have been shown at the Branch Library.
The average attendance for Owatonna films has been 25 while the Blooming Prairie Branch garners an average of 5 per film.
Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, post-test; End user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status
The comments from the filmgoers have been extremely positive so far and a complete summary of outcomes will be included in the FY 2011 final report.