You 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12AMThere was an article on Arts Professional UK a couple weeks ago that presented an intriguing idea–the use of receipt lotteries to fund arts & education. Receipt lotteries started in Ta…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMYou may remember reading that Germany had rolled out €50 billion ($54 billion) in funding for the arts a few weeks back. The news was touted as putting arts funding in the US to shame. Whi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMThere are a lot of stories out there about how some US states are allowing businesses to open. To my knowledge, none have reached the point of allowing live performance venues to open yet, b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:12PMIf you are looking for advice on best practices for arts and cultural entities once they are allowed to re-open, Downtown Professionals Network (DPN) has created a website specifically focus…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:30PMSome encouraging news for all you data hungry folks. The special Covid-19 version of the Culture Track survey I mentioned last week launched today…but only for some communities. Apparently…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMI don’t know about everyone else, but I started feeling like the phrases “unprecedented time” and “we’re all in this together” got overused pretty quickly these last couple month…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMI noticed something very interesting on Friday morning as I was checking out different news sites. It appears that on at least a subconscious level a number of news outlets equate theaters w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMCapacity Interactive’s Erik Gensler scored a podcast interview with Seth Godin to discuss what the post-Covid-19 future for the arts might look like. There is a transcript of the intervi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PMJune 30 is the end of the fiscal year for a lot of non-profits. In light of that, non-profit organizations generally have board meeting around this time of year in an effort to report where …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMLong time readers of the blog know that I am a big fan of the results of the Culture Track survey conducted every three years to gauge shifting attitudes and perceptions about cultural activ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMIf there has been any benefit from the Covid-19 shut down it is the sheer number of webinars being offered to help businesses and other non-profit organizations connect with resources. I am …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42PMDo Your By-laws Allow For Online Meetings? If you live in the United States, you may remember there was much ado when members of the House of Representatives had to return to Washington D.C.…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMNon-Profit Quarterly recently wrote about the big impact the closure of libraries during coronavirus has had on communities. In recent years there have been people who have opined that libra…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:54AMOne of the concerns I have had with so many artists providing their talent and content for free over the internet while people are sequestered at home during the coronavirus epidemic is that…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AMHey loyal Butts In The Seats feed subscribers! This weekend we are changing the service that delivers posts by email. Everyone who has subscribed to the feed will be added to the new system.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMThe Conversation site had an article about the impact of Covid-19 on entertainment venues and events last month. (h/t to Artsjournal.com) Authors Chris Gibbs and Louis-Etienne Dubois urge ev…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMI had mentioned before that Colleen Dilenschneider was making weekly posts on an ongoing cycle of surveying about how Covid-19 is impacting intention to visit cultural organizations. The pos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMAbout two years ago I briefly mentioned a presentation made by Ben Fink at a conference about a community solar project Appalshop was working on in the heart of Kentucky coal country. Fink r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:03AMEarly last month I bookmarked an article by Jeremy Reynolds in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette intending to come back to address it in a blog post in some manner. In the article, Reynolds was ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PMSince I have been on the topic of arts and cultural organizations broadly providing content to anyone who happens by virtually, I figured there is space to point to another voice in the conv…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:35AMLast week in reaction to my post about Colleen Dilenschneider’s suggestion that cultural non-profits continue their marketing efforts during the Covid-19 shutdowns with a shift in focus, C…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AMBy now you have probably heard about all the residents of cities around the world who have emerged on balconies and rooftops to sing together or provide impromptu concerts to those in their …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PMI highly recommend watching Collen Dilenschneider’s Know Your Own Bone site over the course of the Covid-19 epidemic. Every Monday she is posting data about intention to visit cultural ent…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:12PMI took a little break from social media this weekend. When I logged in this morning I was surprised to see how many local musicians had streamed concerts over the weekend. I have also been p…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PMI flipped my notepad over today and realized there was an important point I omitted from my discussion of the Americans for the Arts webinar I cited yesterday. Important enough that I am doi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMAs I mentioned in my post yesterday, Americans for the Arts hosted a webinar on the impact of Covid-19 today. At its peak, there were over 800 participants. With all those people watching, t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48PMAmericans For The Arts is hosting a couple webinars to help the arts community deal with the situation surrounding Covid-19. It appears that both will be archived for those who can’t watch…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32PMIf you are looking for some guidance about how to approach event cancellation/postponements in relation to everything shutting down due to Covid-19, I had a post go up on ArtsHacker today po…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32PMAs event cancellations have started to mount due to the growing number of Covid-19 cases around the country, there has been a lot of concerned conversation occurring about the invocation of …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMWith all the anxiety being generated by news surrounding COVID-19, you probably don’t want to continue reading about the decisions groups are making about whether to continue events or not…
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