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Santa Ana Arts Future <br />Community Arts and Cultural Master Plan <br />What do you value about Santa Ana's arts and cultural life? <br />® What is your vision for Santa Ana's future? <br />What do we need to get there? <br />Highlights of the community engagement include: <br />The Santa Ana Arts Future Town Hall, held at Santa Ana College, attracted over 100 people who <br />voiced their aspirations and visions for the arts and cultural life of the city. The emotionally <br />inspiring keynote speaker, Josefina Lopez, a Chicana playwright perhaps best known as the <br />author of the play Real Women Have Curves, kicked off the process. Other speakers for the City <br />of Santa Ana included Kelly Reenders, former Executive Director of the Community <br />Development Agency and Sandra Pelia Sarmiento, Artist and Arts Commissioner. Jerry Allen, <br />Lead Consultant from The Cultural Planning Group, spoke as well. <br />Over 300 arts and cultural leaders, business leaders, individual artists, and City leadership <br />participated in discussion groups and in-depth interviews, sharing their visions for their <br />organizations and the city. <br />® Over 420 people completed the Santa Ana Community Survey. Presented in three languages <br />(English, Spanish, and Vietnamese), the survey explored respondents' priorities, visions, and <br />satisfaction with arts and cultural activities, as well as their obstacles to participating, attending, <br />and engaging in creative activities. <br />Over 350 community members attended open houses and community meetings held at various <br />local gathering places around Santa Ana including the Delhi Community Center, and the Bowers <br />Museum. A large Spanish-speaking gathering at The Immaculate Heart of Mary attracted 200 <br />residents. <br />Additional community meetings reached residents in all of the City's six Council Wards. <br />A complete report on the community engagement efforts is found in the Appendix. <br />14 <br />M�I• <br />