Arts Activities Support
ACHF Cultural Heritage
We anticipate 700 total people will attend 5 shows in October 2015 (date change from November). Our experience shows that approximately 15% of our audience is made up of Arab-American families, and we will enhance their experiences by providing access to the high quality native Arabic guest artists we are featuring. We will evaluate our work quantitatively by recording attendance and measuring revenue. We will evaluate qualitatively through lobby conversations with audiences after performances, post-mortem company meetings with dancers and musicians, possibly a short written audience survey, and through e-mail comments we typically get from audience members.
650 people attended 6 performances, and approximately 14% were Arab-American patrons. We performed 3 new pieces of choreography that stretched our skills and our repertoire. We staged a successful performance in 1 new venue, and will continuing that relationship in 2016. We worked with 1 new featured vocalist, a newly-discovered talent for Jawaahir, and an artist we hope to work with again.
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