Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
To build and expand our current audience to include French-speakers and language students as well as music, theater and cultural departments of universities. With the goal of performing to capacity at the Open Eye venue, even while increasing the number of performances from our last concert. We will solicit audience members to gauge to what extent our performances expanded their cultural awareness, understanding and appreciation of this artist and his lasting impact on modern music. We will develop an audience survey working with Open Eye's staff, specific to this project, to determine if we have reached new audiences and where they have come from. We will also have access to all ticket buyer information to determine if they are new or returning audience members. Artists will conduct two Q and A post-concert discussions to engage the audiences in further conversation in order to gather direct feedback about their experiences. After the production, the artists will evaluate how well they achieved the various artistic and financial goals set among them and with Open Eye as adviser and Fiscal Sponsor.
We were thrilled that each of our performances was sold out, representing about 900 attendees. Surveys showed that approximately 45% of the audience members were attending Open Eye Theatre for the first time and about that same number had seen one of our previous shows. Many audience members polled knew little or nothing about Brel prior and expressed knowing and appreciating much more afterward.
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