Wednesday, May 23, 2012
There is an old rule of thumb about judging the cleanliness of a restaurant’s kitchen by the cleanliness of the restrooms. I actually used this example this past weekend when discussin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Hat tip to Adam Thurman for distributing the link to an interesting piece about devaluing artistic content by Todd Henry. Henry wonders about the fate of artists when increasingly the view s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2012
There was an interesting piece in Fast Company a couple weeks ago that seems to bolster the idea that creativity is an important component of business success. University of Toronto's Rotman…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Brain Pickings had an animated kinetic typography video of Ira Glass’ advice about how to succeed in creative work. Essentially he says when you are starting out to produce creative wo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Like many of you, my dear readers, I am of a split mind about the inclusion of social media in live performances. Overall, I think this is a good place to be. I have often written here that …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
Well, it seems you can’t keep a good theatre down. In the news today, the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY will re-open after declaring bankruptcy in 2008. This case is similar to t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2012
There has been a post on The Drucker Exchange that has been nagging at the edge of my unconscious for a couple weeks now. Actually, it was one line from a news piece about how the Massachuse…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Audience Engagement being something of a buzz word du jour, (yeah, I have used it a bunch of time here and am aware I am complicit), one of the easiest ways to make your audience and communi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
I had an interesting conversation the other day that convinced me I don’t spend enough time talking to people from other arts disciplines. We were backstage talking to some visual arts…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2012
When I was applying to graduate programs in arts administration, the head of the program I eventually joined said something to the effect of I shouldn’t enter the program if I was a fr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Some time ago I came across the China Cultural Industries cultural projects page. The page is part of the China International Cultural Industries Fair website, an organization authorized by …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
A couple weeks ago Grant Makers in the Arts posted a piece by Rebecca Novick, Please Don’t Start A Theater Company. I had been thinking about the article for some time now when I saw a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Non-Profit Quarterly had an article this week, “Why Every Nonprofit Has a New Job Title: Publisher.” It really resonated with the way I had been feeling lately. Back when I s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Some members of the Student Media Art Collective (SMAC) we assembled had gotten an idea to create a mural on the construction wall by the college library. At one of the SMAC meetings, they h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
Earlier this month, Thomas Cott’s You’ve Cott Mail had some stories about dealing with divas. While there are a few divas I have had to deal with, I actually feel like I have enc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Creativity is getting A LOT of play lately. I have written on the subject at least six or seven times since the new year, including a discussion about the IBM study that found corporate exec…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
One of the big focuses on college campuses today is tracking student success. It is important that students both earn their degree in a timely manner and have developed appropriate mastery. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The lovely people at my state arts foundation sent me some information about National Endowment programs today that I thought I would share. The first is that there will be a webinar for the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Let me just preface this entry by saying I am pretty much old school when it comes to attending performances. I don’t have any problem sitting passively in a dark room watching a perfo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
I am rather busy and have fallen a little behind on my reading and pondering for the blog. As an alternative, I thought I would make note of some interesting art. Today is the celebration of…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
I was reading the Western Arts Alliance (WAA) Spring Newsletter today and there was a letter from Alliance President John Haynes (page 2) giving his view of what audience engagement is reall…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
When I was studying theatre as an undergrad and grad student, there was one role in the theatre most of my fellow students never got a clear definition of, that of dramaturg. Most of our pro…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Recently there has been a sentiment that the arts community shouldn’t use economic benefits as an argument for supporting the arts. I agree with this because there are a lot of problem…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
One of the things that makes me cringe uneasily is seeing non-profits running social media “follow me” campaigns where they make the push for the next multiple of 5000 milestone …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:17PM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2012
Last week Lucy Bernholz posted a collection of links on Philanthropy 2173. One of these was a video of a talk she gave last June on how the information foundations collect is as important to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
There was a story in FastCompany last December about a company called uFlavor which will allow you to custom mix soft drinks both online and through their vending machines. You design everyt…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
One option for preserving the performing arts is often mentioned is a greater use of multi-media either in a performance or as a medium to transmit the performance. However, reading an artic…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I apologize for not making an entry as usual last Wednesday. I was deeply involved with a fund raiser that evening. So far we have seen some positive results which I would attribute to a com…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2012
It may just be serendipity (or you know, Google controlling my every life experience) but I keep hearing about this group called the Awesome Foundation. First it was a story about the Seattl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
One of the perennial challenges arts organizations face is attracting a younger audience and the tendency of audiences to commit so late that you wonder if there will be one for your event a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
I am a little caught up with life issues but I noticed a movie I saw at the Hawaii International Film Festival last October is opening in wide release this weekend and I wanted to mention it…
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