Thursday, August 22, 2019
Back in May, American Theatre had an article about audience building efforts Opera Theatre St. Louis (OTSL) undertook with funding from the Wallace Foundation. In my experience, there is a…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:06AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
I was glancing at an interview with Arti Prashar on Arts Professional UK site as she departs her position at Spare Tyre Theatre Company. I had come for the title of the article, “Exit inte…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:48AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
I saw a movie this weekend which embodied so much of what we talk about when we discuss empowering people to tell their stories and prominently displaying their stories. In documentary Liyan…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:03AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
I don’t remember how I came across it, but a few weeks ago I bookmarked an interview Michael Rohd, a faculty member at Arizona State University, conducted with Roberto Bedoya, City of Oakl…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:54PMHey all – You may or may not know that some months back Nina Simon, writer of Museum 2.0 blog, announced she was leaving her position at Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) to devot…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:36AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Apparently Vu Le of Nonprofit AF blog spoke at Association of California Symphony Orchestras last week. (those lucky dogs) In his post this week, he addresses the question about whether arts…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:24AMThursday, August 8, 2019
Some important information about changes to music performance rights came to my attention today and I wanted to share it with readers. Apparently the consent decrees under which ASCAP & …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:32AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Barry Hessenius recently wrote a post about Arts Employees Rights. Given the amount of conversation and news stories about sexual harassment and other unwelcome activities throughout the cre…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:48AMAfter I posted last week about how English towns installation of chat benches aligned with other stories I had covered about organizations trying to create personal connections between stran…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:48AMThursday, August 1, 2019
I so frequently tell my readers that Collen Dilenschneider has made an awesome post on her blog that it makes it difficult to convey the increased urgency to read one of her pieces when she …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
I came across an article about English towns that are installing “chat benches” with signs saying, “The ‘Happy to Chat’ Bench: Sit Here If You Don’t Mind Someone Stopping To Sa…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 06:48AMMonday, July 29, 2019
When the topic of strategic plans is discussed, there is often an admonishment actively reference the planning documents throughout the plan period rather than drop it on the shelf until it …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:06PMFriday, July 26, 2019
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which posted an NPR story about libraries that are bringing social workers on staff. The main reason is that libraries are serving the role as a community resource…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:35AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
On Saturday, the Knight Foundation will be issuing a call “for ideas exploring how arts institutions can present immersive experiences to engage audiences” (disclosure: Knight Foundation…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:42AMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Via the Marginal Revolution blog, I caught this link to an interesting Financial Times article (registration required) discussing how classical music is at a disadvantage on streaming servic…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:18AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
I saw a really cool story via Americans for the Arts in May about a partnership between the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System. Th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:18PMIf you don’t already read Drew McManus’ blog Adaptistration, you may want to take a look some of his recent posts as well as the conversation on Facebook that ensued. Drew started out ye…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:24AMTuesday, July 16, 2019
When I caught the name, “Penis Monologues” out of the corner of my eye, I felt a moment of trepidation that some men’s rights group was mounting a show as an aggressive counter to the …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:48AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
There was an article in Forbes last month about the glut of empty museums in China. While many museums in the United States have larger collections than they can possibly display, storing th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:54PMMy summer vacation this year took me back to China. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to meet with China arts administrators on this trip, though I did try to secure some introductions and arran…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:24AMMonday, July 8, 2019
A couple weeks back, Slate had a long form article on people using beta-blockers to help with nervousness and stage fright. Just seeing the title, I immediately recalled a piece Drew McManus…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:06PMWednesday, July 3, 2019
This will be the last retrospective post of the series covering the time I am on vacation. I should be back at the helm Monday, hopefully with pictures and thoughts to share. I am writing th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:54AMApparently I watched a lot of TED Talks in 2009 as this seemed to be recurring element in my retrospective posts these couple of weeks. However, this is one I have remembered clearly for the…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:06AMSo 2009 was long before ArtsMidwest started their Creating Connection initiative and before I started my correspondence with Carter Gillies regarding the value of the arts, but I found a blo…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:06AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Over 9 years ago I wrote about a TED Talk given by Golan Levin where he was demonstrating technology that being used to generate images based on sound input. The things he was doing was fun …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:33PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
I wrote last week about how small nuances that alter our perception of a situation can make a big difference. Back in 2009 I wrote another post along the same lines featuring a TED talk by…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:48AMMonday, June 24, 2019
As I was looking back in the archives for content to post on while on vacation, I was surprised to see that I was writing back the dangers of the sentiment that “arts organizations should …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:54PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
I am going on vacation for a couple weeks so the blog will be featuring some interesting posts from the archives. Back in 2009 I wrote a lengthy article about a Mad Men episode where the ad …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:48PMSeth Godin had a post recently where he made the distinction between education and learning. The way he differentiated the two was that education is based in compliance and authority–you…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, June 18, 2019
If you didn’t happen to see it rolling around social media or on Artsjournal.com last week, Carolina Performing Arts’ festival, The Commons, experimented with a new model of criticism. …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:42AMAround 1600 Shakespeare wrote about brevity being the soul of wit in Hamlet. Roughly 400 years later, phone text messaging and Twitter limited us to the number of characters one could post…
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