A couple weeks ago I caught an NPR story about a group of strippers at a bar in LA who were working to unionize under the auspices of Actors’ Equity Association. The dancers had been dis…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PMKeep your radio tuned and your ears open to your local NPR station for the next month or so, especially if you are a theatre professional. The network is doing a series over the next five we…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMSince there is a bit of a cross-readership, many of you may have already seen that Drew McManus announced yesterday that he was going to cease posting regularly on the Adaptistration blog. D…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:43AMBy some fortuitous coincidence, I was digging into my news feed backlog and read Seema Rao’s Museum 2.0 post on guidelines for museum Tiktok accounts on the same day Ceci Dadisman put out …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMPerhaps it is just the availability of social media feeds and news aggregators to bring information to my attention, but it seems that art projects have been effective in bringing about soci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33PMSo it appears that podcasts have turned into public radio’s competitive advantage. According to a recent study, nearly 4 in 10 public radio listeners also listen to a podcast weekly with t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:55PMLast week I received an email from Arts Midwest noting that September 9-18 is Welcoming Week, an international effort to provide a welcoming experience at all levels. This includes governmen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:43AMLast week Hyperallergic ran a piece asking why the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) with a budget of $1.9 billion was asking artists to submit proposals to decorate their trucks for …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMAlways happy to draw attention to the good work of arts organizations, I was pleased to get a comment on yesterday’s post about creating contests and engagement events which expect artists…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMI have been a firm believer in the idea that everyone has the capacity to be creative so I read a piece on The Conversation discussing how creativity doesn’t occur in a vacuum with great i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMOccasionally there has been discussion about how the standing ovation has become the default response at the end of a performance. Not long ago, Seth Godin made a short post about expectatio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMGene Tagaki raises some interesting thoughts over on the Non-Profit Law blog on the question of how legal concepts and structures may need to adjust to reflect changing values in the non-pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMI don’t remember exactly how, but I became aware of a grant program administered by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (CFGA) called “A Place to Perform,” which supports the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:37AMAndrew Taylor made an interesting video/post about dominant arts management styles on his blog recently. I am always wary about personality type tests and categorizations, particularly bec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:37AMYesterday I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the short documentary, Conducting Life, about Roderick Cox, a man who grew up here in Macon, GA who went on to become an associate co…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PMEarlier this month, CityLab had an interesting article on the subject of trauma informed placemaking. For the most part, the article focuses on artistic projects which have given communities…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMIn a recent post Colleen Dilenschneider reported that recent research reflects the title of this post. While inflation is a big concern for people right now, ticket/admission pricing does …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMIn an ArtsHacker article I wrote back in 2015, I had advocated for the use of consent agendas as a way to quickly dispose of routine matters at board meetings and leave time for discussion o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AMLast month Drew McManus had box office manager Tiffin Feltner make a guest post on his Adaptistration blog on the topic of comp tickets. It has taken me about three weeks to stop grindin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMAmerican Theatre recently had a great piece about an interesting approach Princeton University is using as an alternative to auditions called “Try On Theatre Days.” They describe the pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMany of you may have seen the news about the accusations of “wokeness” being leveled at the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel for adding plant based breakfast sausage to the menu. To be cl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMLast month the San Francisco Chronicle ran an opinion piece by Nataki Garrett, the Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, titled Theater can help drive economic recovery in S.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:37AMLast month, Washington Post Classical Music Critic Michael Andor Brodeur wrote a piece about why people like himself are unhappy with classical music organizations ditching printed programs.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMRecently I have been seeing stories about violin scammers. People performing in shopping centers and other public places with signs asking for money. What is interesting about these stories …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMMany people probably heard about a Minnesota venue cancelling Dave Chappelle’s show hours before it was suppose to occur. Something similar happened a few weeks ago at a venue on the oth…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMAs promised, I am following up on Monday’s post about about the first European Union (EU) wide survey of performing arts. I wanted to note some of the recommendations made in the study. On…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMLast week German arts administrator Rainer Glaap made a Facebook post linking to the first ever study of theatres across the European Union (EU). Additionally, some of the survey participa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMEarlier this month Colleen Dilenschneider wrote a post providing data that showed Instagram was the social media platform with the highest levels of audience engagement and conversions (deci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMAmerican Theatre had some encouraging news about a trend to improve summer theatre internship programs. The need for this was seen last year as interns and other staff were walking off the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03AMA few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how donor advised funds (DAF) had surpassed charities like the United Way as recipients of charitable giving. I noted this is a problem because unlike…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37AMWe often hear about how scientific geniuses had an arts related hobby that contributed to their process, (Eisenstein and his violin are mentioned a lot), but we rarely get any detailed insig…
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