Jan
07
I unexpectedly saw more of Echo Park today than I intended, while doing some outreach. I met some great people and enjoyed having the excuse to walk into storefronts I’d only read about or seen. Check out my twitter feed for all the fun updates, but here are the only pictures worthy of posting:
Dec
30
Lately I’ve heard a lot of artists ask: What can we do to prove the value of art and arts education in people’s lives? How can you prove such an ethereal effect? Where do you start to find people who will listen? There is an ongoing intrinsic study in process, as I covered last year, …
Dec
28
While at a large outreach meeting in City Hall last week, a colleague of mine asked about placing a Public Comment form into a Google form. This simple request was to give people the chance to relate to anything City-related outside of a PDF or print-out. Perhaps bring City protocols into 2000. The looks of …
Nov
18
This is an amended email I sent earlier to some friends and artists I know. Please comment below with your input! The last few weeks gave me quite a lot to consider, including the role or importance of art within a much larger world picture. Most of this thought stems from the Occupy movement and …
Nov
17
I went downtown to do some guerrilla outreach for a client, and hopped off the bus and onto a wall at the Pershing Square Metro Station. The Occupy LA March approached, and although I didn’t get them going right past me, I did get some nice shots of people’s reactions as well as the march …
Oct
30
I received this email while on vacation and am just thrilled at the amazing work Santa Monica Rep’s done in just a year. Of course, the trio of terrific-ness Jen Bloom, Eric Bloom & Sarah Gurfield have worked much longer than one year to clarify their intent and goals. It worked, as you can see …
Jul
26
After reading the ClassicsFest Tuesday Night Tweeting for The Doctor’s Dilemma, I got very excited to try it the following week at Twelfth Night and a new play, The Insidious Impact of Anton. I detailed a bit of the experience last week, but want to follow up in more detail on a question I …
Jul
25
Many many thanks for your continuing support! We thank Theatre Asylum, Art|Works Theatre & Studios & Coeurage Theatre Company at Actors Circle Theater for their Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival offer. With an awareness & charity project, finances and schedules are always an important factor to continue increasing the audience, and I did not …
Jul
23
I’m taking some time thinking through my responses to the experience of live-tweeting two shows last week, mostly because I’m receiving such interesting reactions from people. I quickly compiled a short list of general guidelines for live-tweeting, to remember for next time! Add your ideas in the comments. I will revise the Guidelines with suggestions …
Jul
22
Atwater Village a New Arts Destination This is a repost of a Bitter Lemons article I wrote on Dec 19, 2010. More on the Atwater Village Arts Community can be found here. Atwater Village “between the river and the tracks” It’s shaped like a banana and borders the 5 freeway. Neighboring areas include Elysian Valley, …
Jul
22
I’ll be regularly posting highlights from various Outreach Projects & Clients. First up is Imagine East Hollywood Commissioned by the EHNC 2009-2010. It culminated in an ImaginAction, where a group of community artists interacted with our audience to break down a neighborhood council agenda. We also displayed & welcomed the community to make suggestions via …
Jul
13
I’ve been invited to live-tweet upcoming performances of ClassicsFest at The Antaeus Company, as well as a preview of The Insidious Impact of Anton presented by Absolute Theatre Company. I’m sure the thought of this just makes half of you cringe, as does the idea of anything with a power button staying ‘on’ inside a …
Jun
10
If you have a Hollywood Fringe Festival account, any audience member is also a participant, and can also create word-of-mouth via submitting your own review after seeing a show. Since I do that anyway, I figure it can only help the shows I see if I cross-post here. Not that I have millions of visitors …
May
23
Che’Rae Adams is a good friend, and amazing collaborator as Director & Dramaturg. Remounting Karen Anzoategui’s solo show SER at the Hollywood Fringe Festival interests me and so I invited her to be profiled as a Working Director. You can also read about my personal experience in her workshop at the LA Writer’s Center here, …
May
17
I was interested in interviewing Jacob because of the high praise he received from a colleague Gregory Crafts , while in rehearsals and performance at Theatre Unleashed . This theater company and director caught my attention in large part because they always donate a portion of their ticket income to a related cause, much like …
May
17
I had the privilege of being invited to submit for Moving Arts‘ next series of CAR PLAYS, which is part of the RADAR LA International Festival at CalArts REDCAT this June. Get all that? I’ll explain below. The very cool part, though, is that Moving Arts asked me, I submitted a total of three plays, …
Apr
30
Directing is a solitary vocation. There’s a great story Anne Bogart tells in an American Theater Wing podcast. She arrived at an event for Directors and when asked why she was late, Bogart replied she had been in rehearsal. All the Directors stopped and immediately went to take care of her. “Oh, you’ve been in …
Apr
03
I hereby declare a definition. It may, in fact, qualify as a decree. You know that icky feeling, the deep down in your gut stomach dry heaves as you grasp the pages hot off the Kinko’s* copiers, in that empty and rawest of moments before you hand your pages over for the first read. You …
Mar
29
Some pictures taken at last week’s Atwater Village Visioning Summit are below. People were asked to suggest tangible ways to help our neighborhood, so that City Council President Eric Garcetti could focus on real improvement CD13, which involves a good portion of Atwater Village. Do you agree with their ideas? Do you have more? They …
Mar
25
My stories are often about Atwater Village (as in here and here), and I really love how I’ve been able to get involved in the community recently. We’re given a rare opportunity this Saturday to speak directly to LA City Council President Eric Garcetti, and help him understand where our community wants him to focus …
Feb
20
I have a lot of writing projects in the hopper, and many of them are in that phase when they need a little more articulation. By writing about them here, I’m hoping to get some feedback and possibly meet new collaborators. This first one will be incredibly interactive soon, so I look forward to exploring …
Feb
05
I sat at an outdoor table today and happened to be at the right angle to see the gift someone had left. I love this neighborhood.
Dec
28
Hassle Factor | What Would I Say?
by cindyStoryteller
Say you have an opportunity for people to really connect with their community – not just its leaders, but also more neighbors – and have your thoughts about your neighborhood go on the public record, in the hopes it will make a difference? There are about five hassle factors in those two run-on sentences. So …
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