Troublemaker that Drew McManus is, he suggested that as people return to live performances post-Covid, arts organizations should re-think the hallowed curtain speech. He argues that patrons …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PMNon-Profit Quarterly made a post in May that just came across my social media feed today about a weekly Zoom call 200+ arts organizations in NYC are having in order to share information duri…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMHat tip to the National Endowment for the Arts for linking to this video of an 11 year old taking The Bob Ross Challenge – basically trying to keep up and replicate Bob Ross’ painting in…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMYou may have seen the news today that the results of the Culture Track Covid-19 report were publicly released today. While some of the data about audience willingness to return to arts and c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMInteresting short piece on the FastCompany website that points out the current uncertainty about the future created the the Covid-19 pandemic makes deferring on a decision seem the wise opti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMThere is a piece on ArtsHacker I recently published dealing with a lot of the legal questions arts and cultural venues face when trying to make re-opening plans. You may be aware that people…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48PMI was listening to an episode of How I Built This where Guy Raz interviews ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia. At first I was just drawn to listen because Kadakia presented a familiar story of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMIn an earlier entry, I had written about meeting the legal duty of care and planning to re-open your venue as Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed. It is good to be aware of legal duty of car…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:10PMIn the Washington Post, Jon Gertner reviews a book about innovation by Matt Ridley. One aspect of the book Gertner emphasizes is Ridley’s view that innovation is 90% perspiration and 10%…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:06AMTyler Green’s tweet today about art museums acting like corporations rather than charities got me to look at the full series of tweets on the subject. He is angered by the fact that inst…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:12AMArtsjournal.com linked to a Washington Post story about all the psychological considerations some movie theater operators are factoring into re-opening their spaces for screenings. To paraph…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48AMThe news JC Penney is closing a number of their stores and liquidating the inventory reminded me of a post I made eight years ago about the company’s efforts to deal more fairly with custo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PMWhile people still haven’t returned to the daily routines they may have had before Covid-19 brought a halt to so much of our lives, it might be worth encouraging people to continue cultiva…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32PMSeth Godin made a post today that addresses the current climate of Black Lives Matter, policing, statues, etc without directly naming any of these things. (A week ago he mentioned he gener…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32PMI arrived in my office last Friday to find a heck of a lot more emails in my Inbox than I am used to. It turned out the evening before the governor had announced a change of guidelines that …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03PMSometimes a good headline is all it takes. When I saw a link to a New Yorker piece about “Bassoonfluencers,” I knew I had to at least take a look. It turned out to be an article about a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AMI read stories celebrating the fact that Covid-19 is finally making businesses recognize the benefits of telecommuting, confident that there will be this great revolution that will see peopl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMIt appears Indiana University’s Center for Cultural Affairs was having some sort of virtual convening around the topic of New. Not Normal: Artists, the Creative Sector, and Innovation afte…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06AMI don’t know about everyone else, but not having a slate of performances on my schedule has kept me just as occupied as actually having events. While I am definitely grateful to still have…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06AMAt the end of last month, Nina Simon did the lead presentation for Opera America’s virtual conference. (Or perhaps it was just the lead presentation for the topic of “Creating Real Belon…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMLast week I had a post on Arts Hacker featuring the Event Safety Alliance’s (ESA) Reopening Guide for live event venues. You may have already seen the guide being passed around by a lot …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32AMThanks to funding from a mysterious third party, today my state presenter consortium was able to participate in a webinar lead by Collen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS where th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMIn another post, we had shared some general guidance provided by the Downtown Professionals Network for re-opening arts and cultural venues as Covid-19 restrictions ease up. The Event Safety…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:17PMThere was a piece on Vox today that I jumped on with interest because the title seemed to imply it was about a family run dance school applying for the Paycheck Protection Program. I shoul…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PMThere has been a lot of conversation among my peers about how to revamp our venue seating charts to comply with social distancing. Some people were seating in every other row with 3-4 seats …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMInteresting article on Harvard Business Review site titled Is Your Business Masquerading as Data-Driven? Now you probably feel that when are stumbling blind through an environment everyone s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:24PMThe challenges of Covid-19 raise for arts organizations has resulted in a number of valuable resources being produced. When I came across them, I am often torn between writing about them on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMAs live-streaming performances moves from being quickly assembled, impromptu performances organizations were using to keep connected with audiences during Covid-19 quarantine toward being a …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:09PMA number of theaters around the country have started posting messages on their marquees to bolster the morale of their community. Here at my venue, we were trying to think of a message to po…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24PMWhen I mentioned organizations addressing issues of health and safety in my post yesterday, I was thinking about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Between high school and my first couple years …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMYou may have seen the video message by Guthrie Theatre artistic director Joseph Haj last week where he laid out why the Guthrie wouldn’t be offering their content virtually as other places…
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