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arts administration, audiences, festivals, locavore, marketing, new play development, new plays, new technology, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, social media, steal this idea, storytelling, the future, theatre festivals, video, watch this
Steal This Idea: Cutting Your Way Through the NEVER HEARD OF IT Barrier
As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into the stream of material our 100 plus world premiere projects have created to promote their shows. I asked myself, how can I harness this [...]
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2amt events, community, livestreams, video, watch this
Watch This: Return to the Upright Position
Halcyon Theatre and Caffeine Theatre present Return to the Upright Position, a reading of an online text collaboration which conceived and edited by Caridad Svich. Written during the six months after 9/11/01 by Cusi Cram, Mitchell Gossett, Julie Hebert, Llysa Holland, Julie Jensen, Jennifer Maisel. Julia Pearlstein, Brad Rothbart, Gregory Romero,Caridad Svich, Ann E. Taylor, [...]
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advocacy, community, conversation starter, festivals, international, livestreams, new plays, rabble rousing, watch this
Watch This: Homegrown
Tonight, more than 70 theatre companies across Canada are presenting staged readings of the play Homegrown by Catharine Frid. Why? Read J. Kelly Nestruck’s piece about the SummerWorks Festival and how the Department of Cultural Heritage has seriously–and at the last minute–cut funding to the festival. Then read playwright Michael Healey’s post about why artists [...]
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audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: Festivals + Community
Live from the stage of Actors Theatre of Louisville, a panel discussion about festivals and community. From the Humana Festival of New American Plays to the IdeaFestival, Louisville, Kentucky, is home to a growing variety of high-profile festivals that celebrate the arts and culture, reflecting the joy of conversation and community in our city. Why [...]
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new plays, playwrights, presenting, video, watch this
2AMT: Bootlegged and Live-Streamed
Tomorrow night, two different things are going to be done to one of my plays that have never been done before, and I’m really excited about both of them. Thing one is this: my play is going to be bootlegged. No, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be secretly recorded on a cassette tape (remember [...]
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playwrights, video, watch this
Watch This: The Moment
12.24.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsA short film for the holidays, written by Adam Szymkowicz… The Moment Featuring Susan Louise O’Connor & Jeff Biehl Written by Adam Szymkowicz Directed by Scott Ebersold “When Jane goes in to talk to her boss, in an instant of clarity, she notices something different in him that she never saw before. He sees it [...]
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about 2am, conversation starter, ideas, meetups, rabble rousing, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch this: 2amt in the 3rd Dimension
Want to see us live and direct from the first annual Chicago Fringe Festival? Streaming via the #newplay channel from Arena Stage, we go live at 10:30 am CT, 11:30 am ET, Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Kris Vire, theatre editor at Time Out Chicago, is the moderator. The panel includes Bilal Dardai of The Neo-Futurists [...]
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about 2am, conversation starter, ideas, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: 2amt at the CT(a)C
From the Chicago Theatre (anti) Conference held at the Theater Wit complex in Chicago, here’s the 2amt session, featuring Nick Keenan and myself as recorded by Kyle Hamman… 2amtheatre Talk at Chicago Theatre (anti) Conference from KBH Media on Vimeo. It’s a fun talk (as I recall) and should whet your appetite for this weekend’s [...]
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conversation starter, development, funding and support, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, non-profit theatre, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: Michael Kaiser
Or more precisely, just listen, as this is just the audio from Michael Kaiser’s appearance at Portland Center Stage last week. Whether you agree or disagree with his advice and observations, it’s worth a listen. Some of his advice applies more towards the large, institutional theatres and, in many ways, echoes some of the idea [...]
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conversation starter, ideas, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: Ben Cameron
03.09.10 | Permalink | 8 CommentsDo you have 17 minutes and 21 seconds to watch a video. Of course you do. Because you really need to see Ben Cameron, former Executive Director of TCG and current Program Director, Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, talking at the TEDxYYC conference about where we’re all headed, thanks to the device you’re [...]
