Based on a two-year research process, this study attempted to “gain a better understanding of how residents engage with the arts at a community level, explore barriers to arts access, and identify ways to strengthen local arts engagement”… View this resource

Beyond simple attendance rates, what can be said of the outcomes of cultural participation? Are there relationships and connections that have broader social impacts?Symposium participants were told of the Gallup World Poll, a new concept of wellbeing… View this resource

Who uses arts participation data? Are the data used by arts organizations to improve their connections to audiences? Are the data connected to arts policy?One speaker argued that many artists and arts administrators have a hunger to better understand… View this resource

Arguing that current practices are unsustainable, some speakers outlined how “big data” or “organic data” could be combined with sample surveys in order to better track and study human behaviour. Organic data can be thought of… View this resource

In an environment of media convergence and digital multi-tasking (with many people paying only partial attention to multiple concurrent tasks), can arts participation surveys capture an accurate picture of people’s activities? Some participants… View this resource