Arts Activities Support
ACHF Arts Access
1. 90% of youth participants will report a satisfactory to outstanding experience. 2. 85% will report that the project deepened their understanding and/or appreciation of other cultures. 2. 75% of audiences surveyed will report a good to excellent experience from their exposure to music from other cultures. 3. Audiences of 4,000 or more will attend concerts and mini-concerts, including core-city, suburban, and rural populations, seniors, youth, persons with disabilities, and low-income audience members.1. Trained junior staff will make audience counts, with assistance from presenters. 2. Surveys of audiences will be conducted at 4-5 sample concerts by trained junior staff. 3. Youth participants will give feedback via written questionnaires prepared by the program director. 4. Youth participants and junior team members will discuss project impact orally with project staff, with the discussion led by the program director. 5. Artists will evaluate the artistic product in a post-project meeting with project staff.
The 2014 Songs of Hope project was the largest in our history, with 70 youth participants, interns, youth volunteers, and youth staff from seventeen countries; In post-project evaluations 100% reported a satisfactory to outstanding artistic experience; Audiences exceeded 4,000; Based on surveys and staff estimates of make-up, around 65% of our audiences were from underserved populations; 100% of participants reported improved cultural understanding and acceptance of differences; 95% of participants reported an interest in returning.
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