Partners in Arts Participation
ACHF Arts Access
The community written play Wait will be performed by Native youth at no less than three Minnesota reservations and seven Metro area Native audiences. A feedback form and pencil is handed to each audience member. Each performance includes a head count and photos. Throughout the program performance data is tracked using an outreach form. 2: Twenty Native youth will perform for the first time. Native audience members on Indian reservations and in the metro will see a theater performance. Qualitative post-survey responses and a focus group with actors identify previous theater barriers. In the audience discussions following performances the actors share barriers they overcame.
907 Minnesotans saw a performance at five Minnesota Reservations, one performance for a youth program in Brainerd, and seven metro audiences. In order to track the audience members for each performance a visual count was taken and recorded. There were 907 audience members counted. Each performance distributed feedback forms and a pencil to the audience members. The feedback forms were counted and recorded too. There were 340 written feedback forms received. (Our largest performance at Red Lake High School of 580 people only received 51 feedback forms). 2: 707 Natives saw a performance at five MN Reservations, one in Brainerd, and seven metro groups. 19 Native youth and four non-Native youth of color performed. 1) A focus group included twelve program participants. 2) There were 340 written feedback forms received from the audience. 3) The post-show discussion follows an introduction of the actors. Some questions included: do you live by the values in the play, how long do you practice, who wrote the script, and how long have you been acting? Adults often provide really positive feedback, appreciating the courage of the teens on stage.