All Entries in the "Terms and Ideas" Category
Info You Can Use: Understanding Financial Statement Basics
If you are new to a position as board member or administrator of an arts organization or if you have simply resolved to become better educated about your business’ financials, Inc magazine offers a series of articles comprising a quick primer on what they all mean. This month’s article is “How to Understand an Income [...]
Info You Can Use: Considerations Before Forming A Non-Profit
Last month, as many non-profits were faced with losing their status due to a change in the tax filing laws, Board Source President/CEO Linda Crompton suggested the situation might be good for the non-profit world by removing duplicative and ineffective/inactive non-profits. Because non-profits really aren’t required to generate a business plan or survey the need [...]
Reflecting on Civic Reflection
Six years ago I wrote on the practice of Civic Reflection, a process which is supposed to help non-profits and civic groups. “Imagine getting together with other civically engaged people and talking about your values and the choices you make in serving your community.” It still sounds interesting though I haven’t come across another mention [...]
What Do You Do With A Stolen Actor?
I attended a talk by minor theater deity Richard Schechner last week at an open event for the International Brecht Society Conference. He was speaking about environmental theatre (aka site specific). We just finished a site specific work last month so I was interested to hear what a person who had been doing it for [...]
Info You Can Use: Intern or Employee?
A few weeks ago I did an entry on the social impacts and elements of internships in the arts and very briefly referred to the question of whether unpaid internships were legal. It only occurred to me later that the whole legality question wasn’t really dealt with very well. I read a lot about it, [...]
The Hidden Hands And Slow Brains of Creativity
Rod Dreher had a couple interesting entries about creativity and the unseen entities at performances on his Beliefnet blog last week. The entries aren’t about religion except in the broadest sense in which any communal endeavor in which the final result is due to the efforts of the many in support of a goal. Although [...]
The Developing Audience Member
Over the last year, I have written about masterful performances that really affected me: the taiko performance a week ago, the kathak/tap dancing of Chitresh Das and Jason Samuels Smith last year and Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer’s performance last September. There have been a couple times I have brought up the idea [...]