Arts Learning
ACHF Arts Education
We hope to have large audiences in the 50-100 women range. We also hope audience surveys will reflect a large percentage of women being exposed to classical music for the first time, learning new things about music history, and being moved spiritually by the music. We will count audience members, hand out audience surveys, and write down our post-performance feedback that we experience as the artists interact with the inmates.
We definitely reached our intended community because Shakopee-Correctional Facility was eager to host us and easy to work with. The women in attendance signed up ahead of time to be at the concert and were all enthusiastic participants. Most of the general population at the prison were allowed to sign up to hear us if they so desired. The prison population was diverse. We also performed for the inmates in the fast release program. It is an elite group of women who train hard and take classes so they can get a shorter sentence. For them, it was a reward to be able to attend our concerts. Audience surveys showed that for 64% of the inmates it was their very first live classical music concert. 97% of respondents learned something new about classical music. An overwhelming majority said that the music relaxed them and allowed them to emote. Only 40% of the women had ever learned to play an instrument. 100% of them said they would attend a classical music concert in the future.
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