"Breaking" News!! New Bedford's Zeiterion Performing Arts Center about to embark on renovation project, groundbreaking this month. https://lnkd.in/eXarYX2A
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I'll echo Nick's comments & add a few of my own. Every speaker was fascinating, and each added another facet to the topic. We also need to recognise the contribution of PEARL UCL. This utterly unique, exquisitely designed facility not only inspires but validates the concepts we presented: that social design needs to address the entire human, that is, a being who breathes, smells, moves, craves and fears. Think kinaesthesia, proprioception: our bodily sense of space. Many of our sensory responses, & actions, are determined by modalities which operate outside the world of screens / sounds, and they're not captured by virtual models. And many of our differences - vital elements of social interaction - derive from these senses. Let's hope that PEARL becomes a worldwide model for architectural and civil planning. Every continent should have at least one.
It’s been an amazing day exploring ways to Open Up The World! A multisensorial approach to the future of the visual arts. My thanks and appreciation to Sara Adhitya , Nick Tyler CBE FREng, Ali Hossaini Sheryll Catto #AndrewOmoding #LisaBrown Navaz Davoudian PhD MSLL #GeorgeAlexopoulos Isabel Sachs, to the phenomenal team at UCL PEARL and to Arts Council England Thanks also to everyone who joined the audience, participated in smell experiments, paraded and shared reflections, questions, thoughts for collaboration and celebrated the work of coming together across arts_sciences and opening up the world CVAN London CVAN #arts #artists #visualarts #London #galleries #musuems
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Check out this article featuring my work on Exception to the Rule with The Front Porch Arts Collective! https://lnkd.in/eMq7y72N
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"The true power of the arts is the ability to make the invisible visible. It's an immensely powerful thing." Award-winning actor and author Paterson Joseph mentioned this during yesterday's The City Club of Cleveland "Diversifying the Media Production Industry" panel discussion. Paradoxically, we're in an era where the greatest access to information and knowledge is being coupled with a movement attempting to sensor -- and in some cases outright erase -- history and said access. Yesterday's discussion was a powerful display of why the arts continue to be a direct line to culture and history and why they are more vital today than ever before. The importance of elevating and participating in the arts is not only a guaranteed way to experience diverse cultures and backgrounds, but also the quickest and purest way to leverage and celebrate our differences. For example, being in the crowd of an Indigenous performance by Kenneth Shirley (panelist - Indigenous Enterprise, LLC) will circumvent barriers that reading a book may offer and instead directly allow you to experience the culture. There's nothing (and no one) in between you and experiencing Indigenous culture. This was the lightbulb moment for me yesterday while listening to these panelists (Patterson, Kenneth, and Gabriela Muñoz). Yes, the threats against our diverse history and knowledge are real, but the arts afford everyone an avenue to have first-hand diverse experiences devoid of barriers. If you're in the crowd, nothing is coming between you and your cultural experience. BorderLight Theatre Festival's 2024 Festival is live in Cleveland now through July 27. Their mission: to present innovative theatre that inspires, builds cross-cultural understanding, and celebrates the diversity of the human experience. If you're in the Cleveland area, now is the time to participate and celebrate our differences and the human experience. Check out their website for a complete schedule and for more information: https://lnkd.in/gX-jpuVB (Great to meet you, Rachel Costanzo! Keep up the great work!) #Culture #Diversity #Arts #Cleveland
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Meet the founders of Asian Persuasion vzw!
Joni and Christopher are the dynamic duo behind ‘Asian Persuasion’. With backgrounds in performing arts, communications and event planning they are committed to promoting greater representation and visibility of Asian people in the arts and media. Find out more on https://lnkd.in/drmS8rcu #AsianPersuasion #AsianRepresentation #DiversityInArts #RepresentationMatters #SupportAsianArtists
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Love a morning when the first post is something incredibly relevant! Find the full study referenced in the article here: https://lnkd.in/gVJ9CpAH ________ Stand out quote: "Many companies are now experimenting with new models, for both political and practical reasons. There is a new interest in horizontal/collective leadership models, and more skepticism about traditional organizational and compensation structures. " We're seeing changes to structures that haven't been touched in decades out of necessity. Many performing arts groups are trying to get back to pre-pandemic audience levels by doing what worked before. But the audiences spend differently now and there’s little research as to what for sure works. New ideas need to be tried. But the only way you can do that successfully is to have a company efficient and flexible enough to handle multiple inter-departmental changes. With Pivote, you’ll end up with a company workflow so optimized and clear that you can adjust it with ease - no matter what external changes occur.
Industry Pro Newsletter: New Study Looks to the Preparedness of Arts Orgs to Face Future Challenges https://lnkd.in/e_bQrkPj
Industry Pro Newsletter: New Study Looks to the Preparedness of Arts Orgs to Face Future Challenges
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The question that keeps Artistic Directors up at night? Yes, the box office reports. Yes, the fundraising target. Yes, staff wellbeing. But you might be surprised to hear that the question that’s been keeping our Secret Artistic Director up at night recently is: Am I too mainstream? And so it should. Because it’s a great question. As Artistic Directors, one of the many things we need to keep in balance is creative risk with broad appeal. So we should be soul-searching at six in the morning* asking ourselves: Are we here to push the boundaries of artistic expression or are we here to entertain and enrich people's lives? The answer of course, has to be both. But good Artistic Directors, the best ones in my view, never stop asking. #theatre #artisticdirectors
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TWO WAYS THE ARTS ARE CONFRONTING INEQUITIES (1) RISE Theatre, a program of Maestra Music co-founded by the Miranda Family Fund and Lin-Manuel Miranda, will host the first-ever RISE Summit, an event for theatre changemakers on Tuesday, September 24, at the New York Library for the Performing Arts, connecting a diverse group of artists, industry leaders, and advocates committed to creating a more equitable and inclusive theatre community. Read more: https://lnkd.in/erVVF39K (2) A group of US-based museum professionals, artists, and cultural workers have banded together to launch a new group that they hope will remedy decades-old fractures within art institutions. The group, known as Readying the Museum (RTM), was first kicked off in 2021, but it was not until Friday that the first stage of its program was made public. RTM will now put a focus on how managers and executive staff, and the ways these power figures maintain inequities in their ranks. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eydmKxpk #SweibelArts #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #DEI
Lin-Manuel Miranda Will Headline RISE Theatre Summit
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Freelance Educator | Research Practitioner | Producer | Mentor. Project Manager for IVE. Former Director of Performing Arts at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi.
🎭❤️💬 A bit more detail about my upcoming #MDEE24 session.
🎭 Excited to welcome Jo Lee to #MDEE24! An experienced and imaginative teacher and consultant who is a passionate advocate for performing arts Register here: https://lnkd.in/er4kPhkh
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With a frightening lack of focus on the importance of an arts education the consequences will hit us for decades. Government policy needs to move swiftly and distinctly to support creative education in schools, colleges and Universities as a matter of urgency. This is not just about having ‘stories’ to tell. It is about nurturing and recognising the importance of these creative skills in business and corporate environments too. We need smart people in positions of authority and power - in all organisations. Time for change.
"In 10 years’ time we’re going to turn around and say ‘where are all the artists, where are all the stories, where are all the good ideas?’" David Byrne, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, has called for a “rescue package” to keep young people in the arts. https://lnkd.in/dwfxgrth
UK arts need ‘rescue package’ to avoid lost generation, says Royal Court boss
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Since the Harlem Renaissance, Black women have shaped the culture uptown: In 1948, Jean Blackwell Hutson was appointed curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and in 1968, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer founded the National Black Theatre. Yet only now are the majority of the neighborhood’s most prominent theaters and museums being simultaneously led by Black women — women who are fortifying and expanding their organizations despite funding cuts for libraries and arts programs and the rapid gentrification of their community. Black culture is often recognized as important only in retrospect; consider the recent opening of “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an amendment to its famously disgraceful 1969 exhibition on the same subject. But further uptown, you’ll find a group of women in charge. Their institutions are flourishing, creating new infrastructure while growing their audiences, and this cohort is focused as much on preserving Black history as they are on building Harlem’s future. -Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, leads the institution through a $300 million construction project slated to open in 2025. - Sade Lythcott, CEO of the National Black Theatre, is seeing the theater through a dazzling 21-story renovation down the block. - Michelle Ebanks, Apollo’s CEO, and executive producer, Kamilah Forbes, just opened the Victoria Theater next door to its main stage, marking the historic venue’s first expansion in its storied history. From the wisdom passed on to them by their predecessors, these women represent a powerful commitment to community development. “We have to determine — by listening to the community, by listening to the world around us — what is a story that we need to tell through the facility of this institution,” Forbes says of revitalizing the Apollo. “We have to constantly be ready to evolve.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eu4aVJxD #BlackWomenLead #BlackCulture #BlackLeadership
The Women Who Run Harlem
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We are looking forward to the groundbreaking for this project coming up in just a couple of weeks!