Community Arts Access Project

Specifically, Verse Like Water seeks to organize, promote, and host a first class literary event with a world-class poet for the people of central Minnesota. It will be measured by great attendance of inspired diverse community people, evaluations, workshop attendance, and media coverage. Reading attendance goal of 250 people and workshop attendance goal of 50. Increase in community participation by 20%. 85% of workshop participants, who respond to the survey, will agree or strongly agree that the reading and workshop has added value to their lives. We will measure if we achieve our goals by the following: Taking attendance and participation counts at the reading and workshop. We will survey audience members/workshop participants and ask them if they are a student of the college or a member of the community at large, then tally and record the results. On aforementioned survey we will ask participants and audience members to assess the value of this reading to their lives, using a Likert scale.