Arts Activities Support
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25 theater artists will work in ensembles to create two original plays, which we estimate will be attended by approximately 900 individuals from the Twin Cities metro area. We will also provide three performance apprentices with additional training through the creation of our first show, Big Money. 30% of audience members will be seeing Sandbox Theatre for the first time, 15% of them will be members of the Southern Theater's ARTshare program, and 25% will be regular subscribers from Park Square Theatre. Information for our evaluation will be drawn formally from our standard audience count, as well as an audience survey that will be distributed to all attendees, and less formally from direct audience feedback received through direct conversation, emails, Facebook and Twitter. We solicit feedback from our artists through a post-mortem process, in which we gather all artists involved in the project to have a moderated conversation about what worked and didn't work with the artistic process.
Per survey responses, over 50% of patrons to Big Money were seeing Sandbox for the first time. Per our attendance records, over 20% of our In The Treetops audiences were blow the age of 20. A first for us. We made strong new connections with the community of New Ulm, and they have invited us to bring our show In The Treetops down to their city, the birthplace of the show's subject, Wanda Gag.
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