Category: Opinion
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Hold Your Horses: let’s take an honest look at our audience engagement practices
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Service Priorities – Community Needs Tension
Prologue I am following up on recent DC theatre community hullabaloo and this New York Times piece about Oscar nominees. Cannonball This is a Helen Hayes Award: It does close to nothing to advance individual theatre artists or arts organizations. Being nominated or receiving one. That is not meant to be an ungracious statement in the least.…
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When swimming with actual fishes, what’s going on in this head?: thoughts from vacation
Being “Unplugged” My husband and I sit side-by-side most mornings here drinking coffee in bed, staring at a gorgeous rising sun and reading the newspaper. On our devices. I read the backlog of blog entries from the last 4-11 months. Sometimes I tweet them. I’ve been accused of not really being on vacation, because I’m using my iPhone.…
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Privilege – Responsibility Tension: A “sound-off”
Prologue “Do you sense a tension…” “I’m hearing a tension…” “Let’s explore that tension…” The “t” word appeared many of my sentences last year as I attempted to more closely examine the relationship between beliefs or practices with conflicting implications, rather than my opinion of a particular situation. What do I mean by “tensions”?: the Narrative…
Rachel Grossman - A Big Eyed Fish 