Community Arts

Artistic goals were achieved, original music was created, actors were employed and production was mounted and was well received. What worked well: The creation of the music was the part of the production that worked the best but the retention of actors was the most difficult part of the process. Some would leave because they got better offers from other theaters and some would leave because of the difficulty of the material. The strengths of my artist process was having a clear vision as to the performance. The challenge of the artistic process was accurately communicating the vision for the production to all involved. If we were to do the same project again it was determined that things would work better if all instructions were both written and orally communicated. Further, we would begin marketing efforts for the production with in the first month of its start. Did you successfully reach your intended community? Yes, our intended community was successfully reached: The age of those reached ranged from ten to eighty years old. We were able to reach such a wide range by contacting local retirement communities and schools. In part owing to the diversity of our cast and crew our audience members showed great diversity in race, age and ability. In order to make our project accessible to all who might wish to participate: We contacted retirement communities, Centers for the blind, schools and organizations specializing in serving people with disabilities. For future productions in order to improve attendance marketing efforts for retirement communities should begin earlier and time and dates should be discussed with communities of retirees and people with disabilities before printed advertisement is produced. One of the outcomes was the creation of new and creative music. At nearly every performance people would ask about the music who created it and some would ask if they could get a copy.