Thursday, August 6, 2020
Via Artsjournal.com, on Arts & Culture Texas site, Tarra Gaines gives name to the difference between live and streamed performance. (my emphasis) Amid this deluge of performance art offe…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:12AMWednesday, August 5, 2020
If readers have been paying close attention, you probably know I currently run an historic theater in Macon, GA. Last week, the Macon Arts Alliance released the cultural master plan the comm…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
I had a post today on ArtsHacker with the click-baity title, You Can’t Just Let People Tear Your Clothes Off Anymore. The post talks about the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:24PMMonday, August 3, 2020
Recently, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union which has members working in performing arts venues, convention centers, movies, and television productions,…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:00AMFriday, July 31, 2020
I am sure a lot of people are wondering what other people are doing about performances as you plan for the day you can actually start again. Classicfm.com shared a number of images and video…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:54AMFrom the “more things change, the more things stay the same,” whose life do you think this describes? ….she is particularly sharp-eyed, and refreshing, on the practicalities that shape…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:54AMI have had a little bit of survey fatigue so I haven’t been keeping up with Colleen Dilenschneider’s ongoing updates on audiences willingness to return to cultural organizations. As a re…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:54AMWednesday, July 22, 2020
Daniel Pink tweeted about a mentorship study conducted by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University this week. While the study was conducted on scientists, I have to think …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:54PMPerhaps providentially after my post last week about how a professional know their value, I saw a post on HowlRound by Elsa Hiltner which address some of the factors underlying the stereotyp…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:33PMThursday, July 16, 2020
Seth Godin offers a pretty good definition of amateur, professional and hack in a recent post. While I haven’t fully considered all the implications of his definition, I feel like it makes…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:03AMTuesday, July 14, 2020
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 …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:36PMMonday, July 13, 2020
Non-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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Hat 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:06AMMonday, July 6, 2020
Interesting 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:36PMThursday, July 2, 2020
There 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:48PMWednesday, July 1, 2020
I 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 …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
In 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…
Linked From 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%…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 06:06AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Tyler 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:12AMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Artsjournal.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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:48AMMonday, June 22, 2020
The 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:18PMSaturday, June 20, 2020
While 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:32PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
I 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 …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:03PMThursday, June 11, 2020
Sometimes 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 …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:54AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
I 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:06AMThursday, June 4, 2020
I 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:06AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
At 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…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Last 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 …
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