Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Catalan Days are Coming!

Monday night I went to Mercat for the press conference announcing the upcoming CATALAN DAYS Festival. (English site for institut ramon lull here.) The festival will be from 15 April – 20 May and will feature arts, food, literature and more from Catalonia and the Balearic

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Museum as Content Aggregator and More

From a fascinating article in the Washington Post on Ralph Applebaum and his influence on museum design and practice: In the course of a five-hour conversation in his office on the 29th floor of a downtown New York high-rise, Appelbaum, 66, throws out perhaps a

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Wild Bandits of Burlesque

Just got this e-mail from Miz Julie Muz: “Hi everyone! I’m back in NYC for a little while and would love to see you and have a old fashioned good time. Cum on Down to WANTED and spend a little time with me, the SPECIAL

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Andy flies off. Stagewrite fills in.

Howdy. I’m Elizabeth Zimmer, and I’m going to try babysitting for Culturebot while Andy’s traveling from April 5 through 16. I’m an arts writer, editor and teacher, based in New York; for years I edited the dance section at the Village Voice, and am now

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call for ASMs & PAs

from our inbox this morning: Terrible Baby Theater Co. is currently seeking production assistants and volunteers for their premiere productions: “The Nosemaker’s Apprentice” and “The Colonists” at the Brick Theater in April/May. Terrible Baby is a new super group theater company dedicated to the theatrical

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Five Questions for: Ant Hampton

Name: Ant Hampton Title/Occupation: Performance maker Organization/Company: Rotozaza URL: www.rotozaza.co.uk / guessbook.wordpress.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Right now i:m in _tokyo. weird keyboard, hence weird typos sometimes. I:m here because we:re doing _rotozaza:s Etiquette in Japanese.

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Easy to be Hard

When my friend Coop called me with last minute tickets to a preview of HAIR on Broadway I immediately said yes. And then said no. And then said yes again. I mean, I grew up with HAIR. I sang along with the LP record original

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Please Help Team Culturebot

Hi Friends – Long story short  – a few weeks ago I did a pledge drive through a group called Fundable.com. They had some problems with their system – among other things- and since we didn’t meet our fundraising goal we didn’t collect any of

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The Hazards of Love

  Usually when Culturebot gets offered swag it’s pretty lame. every once in a while though, we get something good. we were pretty pleased to receive a copy of the new Decemberist’s CD. I had heard of them but never actually listened to their music

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EmcArts RFP for Innovation Lab

Designed and managed by EmcArts, with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts is a nine- to twelve-month program designed to help performing arts organizations in the fields of presenting, theater, dance, and jazz incubate and test innovative