Month: March 2009
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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 dozen different definitions of what museums should do. “Museums are…
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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 a regular dance and theater reviewer at New York Metro.…
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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 endeavours of Nick Jones (Jollyship the Whiz-Bang), Rachel Shukert (Bloody…
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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. Working in different languages is important for 芽 me – i…
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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 broadway cast recording from the age of 10. I saw…
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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 the pledges. If you like what we do here I…
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City Funding Refusal Threatens Welfare of Homeless LGBTQ Youth
This just landed in our inbox: City Funding Refusal Threatens Welfare of Thousands of Homeless LGBTQ Youth The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) has failed to consider $253,718 in funding for Sylvia’s Place, a project of MCCNY Homeless Youth Services, thus jeopardizing the welfare of over 1,000 homeless and runaway…
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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 so I was looking forward to checking them out. And…
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eclectique telescope
was tag surfing and came across this post about some performance video thingie at Green Hours in Bucharest. Fly me to Romania!
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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 strategies to address major challenges. The lab provides organizations (selected…