Arts Activities Support
ACHF Arts Access
We will engage 20 or more out of 100 Hmong elders with theater. Three hundred people attend the performances and will honor the stories of Hmong elders.We will do monthly check-ins with the Elder Center director to make sure the elders are satisfied with our programming and post-show surveys for those who are literate and video interviews for those who are not literate. We will measure attendees this by tracking them at all public and private performances as well as providing paper, face-to-face, and video options for feedback.
The goal of this project - Letters to Our Grandchildren - was intended to engage Hmong elders attending a day program in the telling and performing of their own stories, in their own languages, for each other, their families and broader community. We accomplished this through 20 on site theater-based workshops at the Hmong Elders’ Center in St Paul which used improvisation techniques to highlight culturally-specific rituals, stories and riddles. Ages of audience ranged from toddler (2 years) to approximately 80 year olds. Mean age appeared to be 25-40 years old. Ninety-nine percent of the audience was of Hmong ethnicity… Actors had several members of their families in attendance…Performers were quicker to jump in with their lines or parts than the previous day performance…Performers appeared to enjoy laughter from the audience and appeared to feed off them and each other, playing up their parts and projecting their voices.
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