Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
Extend the scope of the youth arts program for neighborhood residents and Puppet Youth Troupe participants. The measurable outcome would be the provision of new summer youth programming. Our evaluation processes include head counts of participants per session and aggregate counts per program; oral and written feedback with teaching artists and participants, monitoring of income and expenses per program, and photo or digital documentation of programs. Our concerns are both for the ability of teaching artists to provide a high-quality arts experience, and the effectiveness of those artists to do so with the youth populations we serve. 2: Develop Yes! a new touring show based on transition from oil dependency to local resilient sustainability, and tell interrelated stories that exemplify common sense transitional steps that illuminate the wisdom rising from local elders, youth, and activists working for sustainable community development. The measurable outcome will be the availability of this show for performance in the fall of 2012. The evaluation of Yes! as a project was conducted after the initial development in the Corcoran workshop and neighborhood performances. In the Heart of the Beast staff meets quarterly to review project status and feasibility. The consensus was to put Yes! on hold in favor of other projects that could be brought to the stage or toured more readily. Yes! is part of Heart of the Beast's long-term commitment to performances based on water, land, and environmental sustainability and may have further work done on it at some point in the future.
We extended the scope of the youth arts program for neighborhood residents, adding twenty at-risk participants to the various community sites in the Phillips Project. We extended both the number of youth and the number of activities the Puppet Youth troupe took on. We offered additional summer youth programming including a puppet projection class. We also partnered with the Loft to provide two summer youth classes, and with Youth Farm to Market to provide arts education services. 2: Artistic Director Sandy Spieler worked with Heart of the Beast artists and community volunteers from the Corcoran neighborhood to create the first segment of what was conceived as Yes! and successfully tested the use of a bicycle to transport the performance materials and set from one location to another. Due to time and funding limitations, Heart of the Beast did not continue the development beyond the initial stage during the grant period.
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