Arts Activities Support
ACHF Arts Access
The program will introduce four creative disciplines to 15-20 immigrant and refugee girls to experience, through the creation of a multimedia conceptual art piece, a theatrical performance, a dance performance and creation of a video documentary, which will be presented to over 100 community members during the Cultural Arts Imbizo Community Festival in collaboration with the Hancock Recreation Center in St Paul, August 20th.The project will be evaluated through the following methods: pre and post-test surveys of the participants, survey of the community audience at the exhibition, and final assessment of the financial success of the program by a presentation of our records to the board of directors.
The Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership Summer Arts Program successfully completed 7 weeks of creative art instruction, which consisted of 24 sessions that ran for 3 hours per session, 4 times a week. 24 girls enrolled in programming (15 Karen, 3 Somali, 2 Nepali, 1 Eritrean, 2 Liberian, 1 Honduran), participants created 67 pieces of art, 8 individual skits, 3 documentaries, and 1 final modern dance performance.
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