Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
Our proposed outcomes include both quantitative and qualitative results: quantitative in how it will reach more youth through a multidisciplinary approach of drumming, dance, and storytelling, which incorporates interests of both genders, can be taught to all ages, and will increase our audience numbers. The outcomes will also be qualitative, by introducing and/or enhancing skills in the multidisciplinary artistic forms aforementioned, and exposing youth to the West African culture, traditions, and history. We will evaluate our program through paper and online evaluations, follow-up discussions with the youth participating, the COMPAS resident artist, Christian Adeti, School Age Care staff involved in the project, and parents of the youth. We will also evaluate the success of this program by the number of participants and audience members compared to prior years, including an evaluation of the demographics of the participants.
We were successful in reaching a broader scope of youth through this program. Compared to the last two years, our male youth involvement increased by 20%. We had a total of eight male participants, which is more than the last two years combined. We also had a more ethnically diverse group of youth, compared to 2014. There were four percent more Multicultural youth, ten percent more African American youth, and two percent more Asian youth. We had a total of 25 youth participate in the community event, but over the course of two weeks, about 30 youth participated.
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