Community Arts

Our outcome goals are the following: 1) To increase the number of concert attendees that will experience Chinese music performed at a top professional level; 2) Change attendees perception of Chinese music as expressed by them on our evaluation sheets. Here we are hoping that at least 20% for attendees filling out the forms will indicate this change in perception and 3) introduce children adopted from Asia and their parents to the excellence of Chinese music and the uniqueness of Chinese musical instruments. We are hoping for at 50% of participants in the outreach program will be introduced to at least one aspect of Chinese music for the first time.Evaluation forms will be distributed to audience members at the St Paul concert and for the attendees at the outreach program. Their written and verbal comments help inform us of the success of our project. We will also evaluate our success by the response of the musicians, staff at all locations, and comparison of audience size and diversity of the audience in comparison to similar past projects.