Tidings of comfort and joy (with a dash of excitement)?

Survey findings on emotions, influences, benefits, and barriers of arts and culture attendance

Today is my 49th and final post for 2024. The post has a bit of a holiday theme, involving research-related tidings of comfort and joy. (Happy holidays to those who are celebrating.) After this week, I’m going to take a bit of time to relax and refresh my brain at the end of a long year. I hope that you are able to find the time to do the same.

Today’s article analyzes arts attendance statistics from earlier in the year, including emotions associated with attendance, important influences on attendance, perceived benefits of attendance, and attendance barriers (other than interest and price).

The data are drawn from the Arts Response Tracking Study, “a partnership project between Business / Arts, the National Arts Centre, and Nanos Research”. The project includes surveys of random, representative samples of Canadians 18 years of age or older (details at the end of this post).

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Tidings of comfort, joy, and excitement

The February survey of the Arts Response Tracking Study asked respondents to select from a list of 15 emotions that they associate with attending arts and cultural events. (“When you think generally about attending arts or cultural events, what emotions first come to mind? Select all that apply.”)