Mandala South Asian Performing Arts

Mandala South Asian Performing Arts strives to promote both the classic and contemporary dance, theater, and musical arts of South Asia. Each June, they host the Mandala Makers Festival throughout the Devon Avenue neighborhood in “Little South Asia,” Chicago, supporting multidisciplinary South Asian performing artists. Prior to the main festival in June, they have smaller events in April and May. Before the June festival, they would like to collect demographic data on the festival audience during the April and May performances, including age group, socio-cultural background, etc, as well as qualitative data such as audience feedback on the festival. TechTeam (1) developed sign-up forms or surveys that attendees could fill out during the April and May festival events, (2) analyzed this demographic and festival feedback data to gain further insights about festival attendees, and (3) created relevant visualizations that Mandala Arts could then use in future funding reports. In tandem, members also analyzed publicly available data about the Devon Avenue neighborhood through publicly available sources such as the Chicago Data Portal.