Equipment/Facilities Improvement

The Pipestone Performing Arts Center's mission is to provide facilities, leadership, and encouragement of the arts through education, advancement, and presentation of a wide range of activities contributing to the enrichment of cultural life for the benefit of all in our community. We as the PPAC, believe that the continuous advancement of our lighting and sound technology, the upkeep of said technology, and the advancement of our current ticketing procedure not only carries out our mission locally, but fulfills a goal of Minnesota arts funding. This further advancement of equipment and technology supports not only our venue, but the two resident arts organizations who rent our facility on a regular basis, and the artists we contract with in creating, producing and presenting high quality arts activities. Our goal is to continue to provide a venue in which our community can experience the arts, as well as have easy, instant accessibility. The new ticketing system we are investing in (Vendini), allows us to document and evaluate through a box office agent software. Through this software, we are able to use marketing tools to connect with our patrons. Not only to market and advertise our presentations, but to cultivate and receive immediate feedback on what we are providing, and how we are doing. We continuously provide surveys to our patrons, because we are interested in their experience. To measure the goals of the new lighting technology, we will ask our technical staff to provide us interpersonal reflection on the effectiveness of the technology. For the new ticketing system, we will provide our patrons a survey detailing in how they purchased tickets, ease of access to the tickets, and if their purchasing of tickets was a positive experience.