Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
We hope that there will be an average of 40 people at each of the 30 literary events for the festival. We hope that writers will find new audiences and be more comfortable in reading their work and that audience members will gain an enlightened outlook on the events subject. We will do a head count and prepare a brief survey for audiences that will measure what brought them to the event and their level of familiarity with 'spoken literature' to see how well we are bringing in new audiences. We will have surveys for participants as well that will include information on their book sales so we can measure how successful the reading is for personal readers.
We can honestly say that all our writers would happily perform for us again and that they will speak highly of us to their writer friends. The average attendance of each reading was 25 and we had a grand total of 710 people attend (including people who came to multiple readings.) Our online interest also sky rocketed- our Facebook followers alone increased by 126 which brought us to 560.
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