Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative: We hope to reach an audience of approximately 500 persons to hear the five participating children's choirs. Qualitative: We hope that 90% or more of the participants responding to an post-concert survey will indicate that the music was of high quality and artistically challenging and that collaborative experience allowed them to share their love of choral music with others. We plan to evaluate our anticipated outcomes in quantitative terms by conducting a headcount and survey of audience members on the day of the Festival. To evaluate the qualitative portion of our goals, we will request feedback from guest choirs' directors and participant surveys to the guest choir members post-performance.
The goal of this project was to provide an opportunity for local youth choirs to share their love of the choral arts and perform well-rehearsed, artistically challenging, and culturally-varied repertoire for a large, diverse audience of adults, children and their families. The choral tradition of sharing music was upheld beautifully during the festival. The choirs performed songs in various languages and styles. Our performers and audience of approximately 500 people were culturally diverse and ranging in age from very young children to the elderly. The choirs were also was very blessed to work with world known guest conductor Tefsa Wondemagegnehu in a music clinic prior to the concert. We are so grateful we had the resources to be able to bring in such a brilliant artist to inspire our young artists. The biggest challenge of this project each year is the timing. The day can be rather long for our younger participants, yet the audience surveys often show a desire for more music. We will continue to try to balance this for all involved. We were very successful in reaching our intended community of audience members and participants. Our outreach efforts certainly resulted in community diversity. Ethnic minority of participants for Twin Cities Youth Chorale is 30%. English-Language-Learners comprise approximately 13% of membership. We largely met our goals for making our project open and accessible to all who wished to participate. Guest choirs participated at no cost to themselves and audience members were admitted to the concert for free. Large print programs and a hearing-assist sound system was available. Translation services were requested and we will be discussing ways to work that into our budget for 2016/17 year. Although no bus service was available on weekends, the venue we chose this year proved to work extremely well in every other way and we plan to host this event at the same location next year. Surveys results showed that the vast majority of participants (94%) and nearly 100% of audience members indicated a medium-high to high enjoyment level. Both performers and audience members alike commented that the highlight of the day was when all the youth sang together during the opening and closing songs. Hearing all the young voices united in song was truly uplifting for all in attendance.
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