Community Arts
ACHF Cultural Heritage
We anticipate to engage about 50 youth, 30 adults, with at least four different artist. We anticipate that more than 50% of the public attendees experience this art form for the first time. Ka Joog will evaluate the project's success by the number of youth that participate, the feedback from youth participants via a survey, the number of audience members that attend the public presentation, and the feedback from audience members via a survey.
We have achieved our artistic goals for this project as stated. Our goals for the project was to reach 4 artists and we have done this within the program. All of these artist who took part of the program were/are well known within the Somali community and have done great job taking part of the project. During the overall of the project, we didn't ran into any issue. We had more participants that we previously thought that we would have. People really enjoyed the program as this was very educational for many non-Somalis and for Somali youth as well. The target audience for “Xasuuso (Remember) 1960” are Somalis and non-Somalis that attend the festival in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Somali youth volunteers at the festival, and students, faculty, and/or staff at nearby universities (Macalester College, Augsburg College, and the University of Minnesota). The goal of the event was to connect the festival to the historic event in Somalia that preceded it, which is why festival attenders are a main target for marketing. Ka Joog hope was to engage universities and youth volunteers because another goal of the event was to educate the younger generation about Somali history. Although the intended community for the project was mainly the Somali community. However, non-Somalis community members did took part and participated in the project. We were able to reach a very diverse participants. The majority of our participants were youth under the age of 24 years old. Elders, and parents from the Somali community did participated the project as well. Ka Joog's outreach effort did resulted having Somalis and non-Somalis participate in the project. All of our programs, including this project, is very accessible and we welcome all who wish to participate in the project. During the project, we were able to engage over 70 youth, 50 adults, and 4 different artist. 80% of our participants have said that this was their first time experiencing such program within the Somali community. This type of program was never done before within the Somali community. People were able to learn many new things that they didn't know before, especially the non-Somalis.
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