Partners in Arts Participation
ACHF Arts Access
500 people, mostly Native youth, in Minnesota will see the community written plays Wait and My Grandmother's Love performed. We'll track attendance through headcounts and photos and collect audience feedback. We will meet post-play to discuss feedback as a way to improve performances and motivate the actors. 2: The nine performances will occur in communities that normally do not host theater productions because of economic and geographic barriers. The applicant outcome will be evaluated using focus groups and post-performance surveys.
Twenty Native Minnesotan actors 12-16 years old and five Non-Native actors. 23 of the 25 youth performed for the first time, for 701 audience members. We handed out feedback forms to our audience members. Our following group meeting the group read the responses aloud. These were valuable for motivating the actors. Feedback included knowledge learned, and criticism about volume, favorite parts of the play. 2: Twenty-three of twenty-five recruited participants performed in their first theater performance. Although they were scared or really nervous to perform the first time. To identify the barriers the actors felt to acting the evaluation methods included written post-tests following the program and a focus group with both the summer and school year cohort. The evaluation methods revealed more hesitation by the actors than initially believed.