Community Arts
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To provide our youth with a great 8-week artistic quality experience and allow them a performance opportunity in a safe and loving environment. Parents can expect their child(ren) to perform and exhibit new and refined skills. Youth will present their work and share their process of learning, while playing a significant role in creating a complete ensemble during the Showcase. We will evaluate our anticipated outcomes through parent (family), student, audience, and faculty engagement. We will debrief with our teachers and students separately asking feedback of the program. Acknowledging what works, what doesn't work, where we need to improve and how to improve. We will also have evaluation forms for parents (family), audience and faculty to provide their input of the program.
The artistic goals of this project were met. Our youth were able to participate in a well thought out curriculum. No matter what age group, our youth were able to learn new skills and/or refine existing skills. Our youth were able to perform in a safe and loving environment, where their peers, families, friends and the community came out to support them. The older youth voluntarily became mentors to the younger youth. Helping them in all areas of the program; during art class, dance and drumming. This was beneficial as we had more younger youth. Moving forward, with our youth program, we would like to incorporate instructor assistants for each class. This would help the instructors keep their classes more structured. It would also help with smooth transition of students moving to and from each class. We were able to reach out to our intended community, as we described in our grant. This was made possible through all of our communications; Facebook, website, e-mail distribution list, flyers within the community and by word of mouth. The program was also accessible because of the center we utilized and the location, which is by major public transportation, such as the green line and buses. The most significant outcomes that resulted from the completion of our project was connecting so many families and igniting the passion of what El Arco Iris is trying to portray in our mission statement, which is: We create community that empowers and inspires children and families through traditional Afro-Puerto Rican music, art, dance, and song. About 10% of our youth were new to the program.
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