Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Last week Vox had a backstage video on the Metropolitan Opera production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten. What I loved about it and wanted to call attention to was the way in which they made ele…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PMMonday, December 9, 2019
As the year comes to a close and you start attending parties hosted by different non-profit organizations, it may appear that the same people seem to be involved with every non-profit organi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMThursday, December 5, 2019
This week the National Endowment for the Arts posted the final recordings of works created for the NEA Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. Last Spring, six works by seven high school stud…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
As the world becomes more connected, rules and regulations governing conflicts of interest associated with geographic boundaries start to lose their relevance. Broader definitions and applic…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 10:12AMI recently saw an article on Arts Professional UK reporting that the governments of England and Wales would be opting out of the new creative thinking assessment section of the Programme for…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54AMMonday, December 2, 2019
Historically, theater fires have been among some of the worst in terms of loss of life and property damage. Improvements in firefighting equipment and building design and construction have f…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMThursday, November 28, 2019
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com for the link to a Guardian piece about a kabuki version of Star Wars. The adaptation (or at least the video available online) covered moments from the most recent …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:24PMWednesday, November 27, 2019
I was really excited to see the article title on Non-Profit Quarterly, “NYC’s Small Theaters Have Limited Budgets but Great Cultural Influence” I thought it was great that someone was …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Aubrey Bergauer tweeted about a position at her new day job with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music last week. That fact wasn’t notable in and of itself. What surprised me as someone …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
As Thanksgiving approaches, your anxiety level may be rising at the prospect of spending uncomfortable meals with relatives, engaging in an even shorter official Christmas shopping season th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Via a social post ArtsMidwest made, there is a museum management game coming out next year called Mondo Museum. Thinking back to all the posts Nina Simon had made on Museum 2.0 over the year…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:24PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Today CityLab had a post titled “How Go-Go Music Became Kryptonite for Gentrification in D.C.” This was actually a follow up to an article that had come out in the Spring that I bookmark…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
A few months back, Andrew Taylor at the Arts Management program over at American University linked to an interview with Ed Schein, professor emeritus of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:03PMHey all! If you live in a small or medium sized town and have always thought the asphalt and concrete slabs of your streets wouldn’t be so bad if they just had a coat of paint, Bloomberg P…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54AMThursday, November 7, 2019
When I saw a story on Non-Profit Quarterly about four Kalamazoo, MI non-profits entering a shared-services partnership, I immediately assumed it was confined to back office functions as I ha…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
No, no, no, this isn’t a story about someone with little talent and unoriginal ideas, quite the contrary. Recently my Arts Hacker colleague, Ceci Dadisman, had linked to an article about a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMMonday, November 4, 2019
If you want to read a great story about taking the initiative to provide great customer service, check out the story about Tonya Heath, head usher at the Forrest Theatre where Hamilton is be…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Today was the big day for our community’s On The Table discussion. If you aren’t familiar with the nationwide program, it is a day different groups in a community host discussions on any…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMThere was an opinion piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website today by Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, discussing how the evaluative measures often employed by funde…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
From the “I wish we could figure out the formula and bottle this” file, we hosted a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday. The staff at the theater had been advocating for a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Yesterday I made a post wondering how soon it might be before the digital divide kept people from participating in cultural activities. At the time, I was trying to think of examples of inst…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12AMWednesday, October 23, 2019
I was scanning an article on Arts Professional website and might have quickly moved on except the phrase “not for someone like me” caught my eye. That was a phrase that appeared in the l…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Recently saw an article on the BBC website about a gallery in Cambridge, England that has been loaning out art to students for 60 years and has never had a piece damaged or lost. I have writ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Long time readers know I am a fan of Peter Drucker’s short piece, Managing Oneself. It has been awhile since I have sung its praises so it is timely that a TEDx Talk by Lars Sudmann abou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMIn response to my post last week about the surge of people seeking my advice regarding the open meeting and open records laws of their states based on a 2016 ArtsHacker post I had written, A…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Three years ago, I wrote an entry about non-profits and open meeting laws. In the last year or so, people have been posting a lot of questions on that post about the laws governing different…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMHat tip to Howard Sherman for calling attention to a New York Times article about cell phone use at live performances that the paper has set up as an study guide/student discussion resource.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Three years ago I wrote an article for ArtsHacker.com about being aware of the open meeting requirements your state imposes on non-profits. I basically pointed out that while pretty much eve…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:04AMTuesday, October 8, 2019
This weekend we hosted a performance by the dance company Diavolo. You may be familiar with them as a finalist on America’s Got Talent, but they have been around since 1993 and have been…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMThursday, October 3, 2019
As part of developing the cultural masterplan for our community, people are being encouraged to contribute information to a cultural resource map. The goal is to not only map the active asse…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
So if it isn’t bad enough that actors auditioning for a part are being evaluated on the social media following they have cultivated along with their looks and talent, they are now being as…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM 
