Arts Tour Minnesota
ACHF Arts Access
Z Puppets’ four performances in New London and Duluth will increase the availability of sensory-friendly arts events for families in Minnesota. Through post-show surveys developed with an evaluation consultant, audiences with and without sensory issues will identify their prior experiences with and awareness of sensory-friendly arts events. 2: Z Puppets’ participatory outreach events will increase audiences’ points of entry to our unique approach to the art of puppetry and our performances. We will track the number of participants at sixteen outreach events. On post-show surveys audiences will report how many and which outreach events they participated in before attending the performance.
Sacred Heart and New London Arts Alliance presented their first sensory-friendly performances. Event registration asked if there was a need for accommodations for special needs. Print/digital surveys asked people to comment on previous experience with sensory-friendly arts and how well our tour events met their needs. Due to the high direct contact we had with the participants at outreach events, we added our observations to the data. Example: at West Central Industries, a boy with sensory needs told us he saw us at his school. Then we saw him at each of our events in New London. 2: By partnering with community organizations for outreach events, we increased access to our tour events in Duluth and New London. We tracked attendance at each event. At the performances and workshops we surveyed participants to ask if they had attended any other events in our series. The results indicated that some people had found out about us and decided to participate due to their experience with the outreach. Due to the high level of direct contact of doing outreach, we were able to add anecdotal info and observations to the collected data.
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