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…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Back in December I wrote about the production of First Person: Seeing America we were hosting. I had described it as something of a live documentary with the narration, images and music all …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Ah March, when a young man’s thoughts turn to love…or backstabbing betrayal. Those cynics among us might says love and betrayal are pretty much the same thing. However, I was mos…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Apropos of my post yesterday about using big data to customize information to the interests of individuals in your community, I happened to come across an interview with Jamie Bennett who is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:48PM[SHARE]We are planning a reception next month so a few weeks ago we were checking the website of a printer we often use for postcards to get pricing for invitations. The next day I got a call from …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Oregonian reported this weekend that the city of Portland would start to tie arts funding to the diversity of the art organization’s board, staff and ultimately audiences. Specific…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thursday is the 8th anniversary of this blog. I made my first post on February 23, 2004. I wouldn’t normally call attention to an oddly numbered anniversary (though 8 is considered aus…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This weekend Scott Walters quoted an extensive comment made on another blog about the value of MFA acting programs. The gist is, students are ill served by the programs which need to focus o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:54AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2012
Hat tip to Ian David Moss at Createquity who linked to a New Yorker article on brainstorming in one of his “around the horn” summaries. The article talks about how the whole idea…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
In diplomacy terms, soft power is a nation’s culture and values as opposed to their economic and military power. Some institutions like McDonalds and Apple cross some of the boundaries…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Taking up where I left off yesterday, one of the last things I mentioned was that arts people might have an easier time shifting their perceptions to be more inclusive of what constitutes ar…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Philosophy professor Mike LaBossiere has an entry on Creativity Post in which he discusses the issue of defining art. He cites one of the creators of the Penny Arcade web comic, Jerry Holkin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2012
Last month, MarketingProfs presented the results of some research that showed Gen Y consumers won’t make purchasing decisions without consulting user generated content (UGC). Interesti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
An interesting question was posed to Kelly Kleiman, the Nonprofiteer, about the practice of suggesting donors increase their giving from the previous year. The writer was offended at being t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
I have been following The Producer’s Perspective, the blog of Broadway producer Ken Davenport, for a number of years now. While I don’t have solid evidence, I suspect he is not l…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2012
Though they haven’t played since October 2009 and the symphony filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in December 2010, the Honolulu Symphony musicians saw a new opportunity to perform togeth…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2012
I was helping out a local high school by conducting mock interviews with their students today. I enjoy doing this because the school does a great job preparing the students for the experienc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I had a small disagreement about marketing with one of the people partnering on a show with us that raised the question about what is more important, the artist or the organization. The disa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
In the talent vs. practice debate regarding mastery we have Malcolm Gladwell’s suggestion that it takes somewhere around 10,000 hours to achieve mastery (as well as the counter argumen…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:35PM[SHARE]Participating in the Lead or Follow discussion over at Artsjournal.com, Lynne Conner writes the following about audience participation/engagement in performances (my emphasis). Inviting audi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
I was reading an entry on the Creativity Post by Thomas Mark about how important audience attentiveness is in live performance. It was interesting, but I wasn’t intending to post on it…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
I got my sister a gift certificate at Restoration Hardware for Christmas. They sent along a catalog that weighed about as much as my 3 year old nephew so I chose not to carry it on the plane…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2012
We all know that arts classes and opportunities have been disappearing from schools at varying rates for decades. It may or may not surprise you to learn that creativity is not encouraged in…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:02AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
An article recently posted on the Fast Company website talks about how transitory people’s jobs, and increasingly, career paths, are. “According to recent statistics, the median …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2012
Artsjournal.com had a link to a story on ArtSeek about the difficulty arts organizations in the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area were having finding arts managers. A good many positions are goi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
While at the Arts Presenters conference, I learned that Wesleyan University has a certificate program in Curatorial Practice in Performance. My first thought was to wonder if there was reall…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:03AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
I have been attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference this past weekend. I am sure I will have more to say on the subject in future entries, but I wanted to p…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Looking back at some old posts, I really started to think about the conflict of market forces and education. I was reading an old post that cited Tony Kushner’s proposal to eliminate t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Back in 2005, I wrote about a study by the Urban Institute dealing with attendance at cultural activities. Looking back at the study, The Diversity of Cultural Participation, I am still a li…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:50PM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
My suggestion for a 2012 resolution to all my readers out there is a musical one. The words of They Might Be Giants, “Whistling in the Dark.” There's only one thing that I know h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Apropos to the recent aggregation of articles on You’ve Cott Mail about diversity in the arts, I wanted to point back to a post I did a few years ago about the pressures of protecting …
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