Arts Activities Support
ACHF Cultural Heritage
A high quality concert will be presented in Brady Educational Center in University of Saint Thomas in January 2016 with the theme of 70-year Peace Celebration and free admission for seniors. In addition, a free onsite concert will be presented in Saint Paul Public Housing Ravoux High-Rise as part of outreach activity. The numbers of audience at the two concerts mentioned above (annual concert in Brady and outreach concert in Ravoux) and the numbers of new students and performers will be two criteria used to evaluate the success of this project. Ticket sales of the Brady concert, newspaper critics, and audience surveys (conducted in person after the concert by Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater performers) will also be compiled before the closing of the project in February 2016.
Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater presented its 23rd annual concert, Ode to Yellow River, in Brady Educational Center Auditorium in University of Saint Thomas on Sunday January 31, 2016. 42 seniors 70 years or older attended the concert using free tickets; 66 seniors 69 years or younger had used the 50% discounted tickets. The combined senior audience members of 108 made this concert the highest number of senior audiences. They made up 40% of the total of 266 audience members. The seniors were 80% Chinese. The overall Chinese audience was about 60%. The rest were Caucasian, Hmong, Indian, Hispanic, and Somalian. One audience member was with disability and on a wheelchair.
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