In response to growing global and local intolerance, The Global Theatre Project is compelled to announce a multi-year project: Artists, students, educators and residents around the world will be asked for their own authentic and honest responses to the question, ‘Who Is The Enemy?’ We will initiate a global discourse, both explored and expressed creatively. …
Tag Archive: outreach
Apr
25
Autism Awareness Month: Accessibility to the Arts
Autism is one of the bajillion causes that use April to spread awareness. I am very partial to this cause because of my working relationship with The Help Group, a nonprofit school for children with special needs. It’s part of my job to learn about autism and special needs and read lots of mommy blogs …
Jan
30
Social Media Workshop for Playwrights Union
I”m pleased to announce that on February 15th, I will run my signature workshop, “Self-Promoting Without Annoying Your Friends” for the local Los Angeles Playwrights Union. This workshop kicks off the group’s Writing Challenge for 2012. The Playwrights Union is a network of Los Angeles theater artists writing for stage, tv and film. The Playwrights …
Dec
26
Outreach | Vocabulary
Some terms I frequently use when talking about Outreach hassle factors | avoid these at all cost. mind the gap | learning about the disconnect between your mission and your target audience. gateway drug | experience of something unfamiliar in a comfortable setting with directly relevant themes and practice. ripple projects | help your work …
Dec
20
Outreach | The Invitation
I see gaps everywhere. By gaps, I mean holes between your outreach and the audience you want to reach. One such example reared its head while I walked around the NoHo Arts Festival last November. Let’s start with NoHo Arts District in general: they do a great job with nurturing this neighborhood, and it’s hard …
Nov
18
What is the power of art?
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
Occupy LA March on Nov 17th
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
Follow up on past Outreach Client
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 …
Oct
20
Think Globally, Act Locally
Everyone at LA FPI kept telling me I should meet Bari Hochwald. They were right. Her work and outlook on art for social good fits perfectly into my own views. Add a desire to enrich my online outreach work, and we have a collaboration! It’s a fun challenge to reach both students and artists who …
Jul
26
Live-tweeting Twelfth Night | What You Will
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
Closing a Chapter | VFC
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
Live-tweeting General Guidelines
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
4 Theaters in Atwater Village
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
Outreach Projects | Imagine East Hollywood Pt1
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
14
Free Beer From God
From the people who brought you the 1st Annual Atwater Art Walk: “For centuries, monasteries served as bastions of civility, preserving learning and extending charity to those around them. In this context a rich tradition of beer making developed, one that provided for the poor and evidenced a belief in a God who desires to …
Jul
13
Live-tweeting theatre from audience perspective
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 …
May
07
LA Writers Center
I’ve posted here many times on the art of procrastination, the struggle to write clashing with the desire to tell stories. When I decided to go freelance last year, at the top of my to-do list was take a class with Che’Rae Adams and the LA Writers Center. Everyone who has taken her class encouraged …
Apr
30
If A Director Falls in the Woods…
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 …
Mar
29
Atwater Village Visioning Summit Pics
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
Atwater Village Visioning Summit
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 …
Mar
07
Vote For The Arts on Tuesday March 8th
This election matters. You can vote for the arts, arts education, and direct community involvement, or you can vote for LA to continue on her current path. If you don’t feel you know enough to understand the ballots, check out Stephen Box, City Council candidate for District 4. If you don’t know if you live …
Feb
23
Belarus Free Theatre
I recently made the acquaintance of Bari Hochwald through LAFPI and the LAThtr Meetups. She is a soul sister, creatively and personally, and her work through The Global Theatre Project inspires me every day. Their presentation this Friday of “Being Harold Pinter” supports the Belarus Free Theatre, and Bari took a few moments out of …
Feb
11
Through
I just found and very much like this quote. It’s exactly how I feel at this moment: “The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as …
Feb
05
Happy Days in Atwater Village
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.
Feb
04
Broadway Arts Center Public Planning Workshop
I just received this email through the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council email list. Who knows about this? Comment below to share with the LA Theatre community. Dear Friends, We hope you can make it to this important planning workshop THIS MONDAY EVENING at the beautiful historic Los Angeles Theatre on Broadway! Bringing Back Broadway invites …
Sep
14
Are you registered to vote, California?
All of the information below was taken directly from the California Secretary of State website Ignorance is not an option. (except for that. that was from me.) Are You Already Registered to Vote? To find out if you are currently registered to vote, visit the Secretary of State’s Check Status of Your Voter Registration web …
