Community Arts Access Project

To provide a quality opportunity for artistic growth and development for theater artists, and audience members from the Walker, Akeley and Northern Cass County region through participation in creating a theater event with eight public performances. Creating an audience awareness of important American Plays to our contemporary audience. All actors/performers will fill out a goal sheet with their expectations/ goals for the project at the first rehearsal to be returned to them at the last feedback session for self-evaluation on improved skills and new learning gained from participating in this project. We will conduct a verbal evaluation/feedback group session with all cast and crew after final performance that center around five questions--what went well, what did not go well, what was surprising for you, what did you learn and how can we improve this project. This will be recorded and/or videotaped. During the performances two volunteers will document audience numbers, ages and diversity. They will also record verbal responses from a short impromptu on-site survey as well as a Q and A time with performers right after each performance to assess audience level of appreciation and engagement. We will also provide audience members with pre-addressed “comment” postcards placed in each program/playbill to assess level of success of expanded vision. Pencils and a return box will be available to encourage immediate completion. We will further document the project through photos, video, press coverage, flyers, posters, programs, etc. All information will be compiled and summarized to create a final evaluation report to present to the board for the improved future productions.