Monday, May 18, 2020
As 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 01:09PM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2020
A 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 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2020
When 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 of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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 h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
There 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 Taiw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2020
You 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.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
There 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 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2020
If 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 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2020
Some 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 06:18AM[SHARE]I 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 months. This …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2020
I 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 11:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Capacity 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 09:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2020
June 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 09:12PM[SHARE]Long 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 09:12PM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2020
If 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 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2020
Do 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 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Non-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 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2020
One 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 12:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2020
Hey 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 11:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2020
The 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 10:48PM[SHARE]I 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 04:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2020
About 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 04:03AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2020
Early 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 08:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Since 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 01:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Last 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, Car…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2020
By 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 11:18PM[SHARE]I 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 entit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2020
I 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 10:36PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2020
I 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 03:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
As 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 08:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Americans 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 l…
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