Arts Activities Support
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative: Attendance at performances by 200 people of diverse backgrounds (East Side neighborhood/greater Twin Cities; immigrants/native born; African American, Native American, Asian American, LatinX). Qualitative: Audience surveys show that 50% of attendees indicate an enhanced understanding of the history of the Civil Rights Movement. We will survey our audiences not only at performances but also at collateral events (films, lectures, discussion) to identify participant count, residential base, racial-ethnic-national identity, and to collect their assessment of their learning experiences. We will also survey post-show discussion leaders, again at collateral events as well as performances, to collect their assessment of the depth and breadth of the conversations.
550 extraordinarily diverse people attended our ten performances. They engaged each other in experiencing the play and in discussing their reactions with each other. Audiences gained a visceral as well as intellectual understanding of the experiences of young people in Freedom Summer than they had had, and they left with a much more complicated understanding of the subject matter.
Other, local or private