Arts Activities Support
ACHF Arts Access
Children and families will be able to attend, free of charge, a unique hands-on creative arts experience and classical music performance. By participating in the hand-on arts activities and the follow on concert children will discover and enhance their own creative potential while gaining experience listening to and interacting with live musical performance. They will hear live music, see musicians playing, meet a living composer and participate themselves in the concert through movement and dance, perhaps for the first time, and may be inspired to continue to explore their innate creativity through art and music after the concert. They may also be moved to attend future concerts.An audience/participant count will be made. Assessment will include informal observation of the audience/participant engagement in pre-concert creative arts activities, and audience/participant response during the subsequent concert. Indicators of success of the program will include the number of children and families who attend and participate and the overall quality of the performance by musicians and artists.
400 people attended the pre-concert and interactive concert led by 8 visual artists and 50 musicians who experienced a bi-lingual presentation of a well-known children's piece, Peter and the Wolf; 92% of the audience reported that they valued this interactive format and would attend other Children's Concerts offered by the Saint Paul Civic Symphony.
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