Arts attendance / Performing arts
Volume 7 No 1 / April 22, 200822 April 2008
In this issue: four reports related to arts attendance, including an American study of the intrinsic impacts of performance attendance, a Canadian examination of the social impacts of performing arts attendance, a study of attendees’ motivations, abilities and opportunities to participate, and a report on the demographic and cultural factors involved in performing arts attendance in Canada.
Resources
Factors in Canadians’ Cultural Activities (Performing arts findings)
Arts Research MonitorThis report examines demographic and other factors involved in performing arts attendance (as well as three other cultural activities), based on data from Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey of 2005, an in-depth telephone survey of about 10,000… View this resource
MAO-Model of Audience Development
Arts Research MonitorMotivation, ability and opportunity are three key pre-requisites to cultural attendance. This paper, presented at the 8th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, examines how arts organizations can better understand and use these th… View this resource
Social Effects of Culture
Arts Research MonitorWhile the WolfBrown examines the intrinsic impacts of a single performance, this recent report investigates the broad social impacts of cultural activities for individuals. This report examines the relationship between four cultural activities (readi… View this resource
Assessing the Intrinsic Impacts of a Live Performance
Arts Research MonitorThis report “attempts to define and measure how audiences are transformed by a live performance”. Two different surveys were conducted by six presenters with 1,730 randomly-selected audience members at 19 music, dance and theatre performances. The re… View this resource
Other Resources
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