For a few brief weeks, I co-wrote a blog with my former professor and good friend Cal Pritner called “Thank You! Next?” What follows is a post I wrote January 9th, 2009 that I’d like to give a wider readership — something that might be valuable as we consider a revision of theatre education, of [...]
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Rerun: On Sharks and Fish
Posted in Education, Inspiration on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Informal Arts
Posted in Inspiration, tagged drawing, informalarts, IreneChristianson, LaMoineMacLaughlin, midnightlove, northernlakescenterforthearts, participatoryarts, poetry, unfoldingmoment on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a lovely blog post on The Unfolding Moment blog entitled “Retrospective: Be Very Afraid. And Then Draw It Anyway,” art therapist blogger moonrabbit describes what is important about “informal arts” or “participatory arts.” I’d like to add another story from my travels this summer. When I visited the fantastic Northern Lakes Center for the [...]
Spalding Gray: Tell Stories, Listen — Make Art
Posted in Inspiration, Place, Values on September 1, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In an interview in 1991, Spalding Gray said: “Personal storytelling is very important to me because we’ve become so media-ized that we begin to think the stories the stars tell on Johnny Carson are more important than ours. And whenever I interview people, interview the audience onstage, and I draw their stories out, the audience [...]
Have You Read Createquity
Posted in Inspiration on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ian Moss is doing a great job filling an arts blogging niche that gets too little attention: the economics of the arts. Check out his blog Createquity – well worth the time. Blogged with the Flock Browser
Vandana Shiva on Swadeshi
Posted in Inspiration, tagged swadeshi on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From an interview in Yes! Magazine: Vandana: Something is seriously wrong, and the only way we can get out of it is swadeshi, swaraj, and satyagraha. These are the three pillars of survival and these are the three pillars of freedom. Vandana Shiva Photo by Ajay Tallam, wikipedia David: What does swadeshi mean? Vandana: Swadeshi means [...]
Words of Wisdom from Rev. Billy
Posted in Inspiration on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Now so many of us have lost our jobs, our savings — we are starting new businesses out of our garages. Out of our personal computers. We discover that our hobbies can make money. We teach in the home. Trading, bartering, thrifting…we are doing what we can. We are making things. The old shuttered storefronts [...]
Eric Booth
Posted in Inspiration, Values, tagged Eric Booth on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a wonderful speech by Eric Booth, author of “The Everyday Work of Art” and head of the Mentoring and Arts Education Program at Julliard. In many ways, the questions he asks and the ideas he puts forward could easily stand at the center of the <100K Project. The speech is called “Finding the [...]
