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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32PM[SHARE]If 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 08:32PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
As 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 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2020
With 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, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]While looking for something totally different, I happened upon a tribute to the recently deceased executive director of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo Service Center, Dean Matsubayashi. What attr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
Back in 2012, Portland, OR approved a $35 tax to supports arts education and arts organizations around the city. In 2017 I wrote a post about how overhead was starting to cut into the amount…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
I think there is probably enough overlap between my readers and Drew McManus on Adaptistration that I am not bringing anything new to the table when I point to his most recent post. But man!…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PM[SHARE]Collen Dilenschneider is increasingly becoming my go-to source for general data about audience behavior in relation to pricing. Last month, she posted about the perception and attitudes free…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
I wrote a post that appeared on Artshacker today about ticket scams occurring in the comments section of performing arts organization social media accounts. Essentially, what happens is that…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2020
On my personal blog, I have written about the problem of ticketing websites that masquerade as legitimate performance venues and either sell fake or highly marked up tickets. I have to s…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Earlier this month, Vu Le at Non-Profit AF made one of those posts you didn't know you needed until it was written. In it he addressed the stress higher education school projects have on alr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PM[SHARE]Knowing that one of the biggest barriers people experience when planning to go to an event is not having someone to accompany them, five years ago I was inspired by a Brazilian bus company t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
Back in November 2018, I wrote about how the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was hiring refugees from Middle Eastern countries to act as docents for galleri…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Finally, a dream a decade in the making is coming to fruition!  Though I am sure he doesn't recall it at all, in a post back in 2010 I had suggested that Drew McManus' Venture Industr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06PM[SHARE]H/T to Artsjournal.com for linking to a FastCompany article about the problem with making a business case for diversity. I saw a lot of parallels between the rationale laid out by author, Sa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2020
In the wake of Kobe Bryant's death, Dance Magazine related a short anecdote about Bryant taking tap dance lessons to help prevent additional injury to his ankles. That summer, he researched …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Via Arts and Letters Daily is a link to an Aeon piece that claims pop songs have gotten increasingly sadder and negative over the last 50 years. They lay out their method of analyzing ly…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PM[SHARE]There was an article on the Arts Professional site urging care in the Arts Council of England's initiative to increase investment in libraries over the next decade. The author of the piece, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Conductor Robert Trevino had a novel idea of getting people to attend concerts by modern composers…don't tell people what the program was going to be. Counter-intuitively, the concerts had…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2020
Last month you may have read a number of news stories about the Methodist church in Minnesota with declining attendance that decided to kick out all their old members so they could attract y…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Hat tip to Drew McManus for reposting a link to timpanist Jason Haaheim's summary of his 13 part series on the value of deliberate practice. I figure Drew just reposted the link as bait to m…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Last week Shelterforce had an article about places around the country that are using arts and culture strategies as part of transit planning processes. They provide examples of projects in b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
About two weeks ago, I wrote about how England's National Theatre has been developing technology and processes to provide closed captioning glasses to audience members who may be D/deaf and …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2020
Recently the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published an issue of their Community Development Innovation Review (CDIR) focused on "Transforming Community Development through Arts …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2020
A couple years ago I wrote a piece for ArtsHacker debunking the notion that anyone who was an ex officio member of a non-profit board did not have the power to vote. The fact is, they have t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Last week Springboard for the Arts' Executive Director Laura Zabel addressed the concept of solving "arts deserts" in a series of tweets. But, please, let's not let this "arts desert" idea t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2020
A few years back I made a post addressing the assumption that ex officio positions on a board of directors were automatically non-voting. Spoilers: That is not the case. Apropos to that, I r…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
Tyler Cowen shared a link on his Marginal Revolution blog about Hillary Hahn discussing daydreaming as a form of practice. The link went to blog post by Bill Benzon featuring a video of an i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2020
I don't know how I missed it on Vox.com, but Non-Profit Quarterly recently pointed out an article the site about the effectiveness of swag in non-profit fundraising. The TL:DR version is, ot…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2020
It appears that concerns about how social class and wealth limit access to creative careers may be a hot topic of discussion in England these days. Via Artsjournal.com is a The Stage piece b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:33PM[SHARE]Via Artsjournal last week was an article about the London Short Film Festival using glasses technology developed by the National Theatre to provide captioning to D/deaf and hard of hearing a…
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