Hey everyone,
What a difference a year makes. And I'm not just saying that because it's my birthday!! Looking at last year's bulletin, the Brookland Artspace Lofts were still under construction and the Cultural Development Corporation was having info sessions at Dance Place and the Source Theatre, a DC PAL was organizing a benefit fundraiser for victim's in Japan of last year's tsunami.
And then there's everything we do day-by-day, week-by-week, from the absurd to the profound. Forgive me for waxing poetic, but I appreciate the constant reality check you all give me in terms of what it is that we as a community of artists do, here in DC. It's a great intersection of local, regional, national and international work, and anyone who attended and/or participated in Intersections can probably speak to that. And it helps give me perspective when it's so easy to get lost in the day-to-day stuff, going from finishing one performance just in time to get ready for the next.
So thank you, thank you, thank you. And with that, here's the mid-month bulletin:
*Petition to restore DC Arts funding
*Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art
*Facebook tips
*Potential Happenings
*Present Happenings
*Ephemeral Happenings
*Future Happening
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*Petition to restore DC arts funding
As a city of 600,000 residents with 15-20 million tourist visitors per year, the arts industry is a vital partner in each ward and the city’s overall economic development. Yet without sufficient arts funding, we simply will no longer be able to continue to provide these services.
http://www.change.org/petitions/washington-area-artists-arts-organizations-and-audiences-ask-mayor-gray-to-restore-funding-for-dc-arts-humanities
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*Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art
"We make art because we believe it makes better human beings. We make art because we believe it makes being human better. So why do we spend so much energy quantifying the economics of what we do, and so little time quantifying the impact?"
I had to share this one again, as the Dissemination Tour comes through the area, Mar 22 at Arena Stage, presented in association with theatreWashington. I'll be there.
RSVP at dtaylor@theatrewashington.org
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*Facebook tips
Last week I shared some Foundation Center classes on social media and digital communications. This week, I wanted to share some links to check out for managing FB pages:
Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations
http://www.diosacommunications.com/facebookbestpractices.htm
Coming March 30: Facebook Timeline
http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive/2012/03/09/coming-march-31-facebook-timeline.aspx
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Potential Happenings:
Principles of Acting - Mar 19
http://www.studio-boh.com/
Auditions for Occuplay (Nu Sass) - Mar 20
http://nusass.org/occuplay-auditions/
Internships (Montgomery College's Summer Dinner Theatre) - Mar 23
https://www.facebook.com/notes/montgomery-college-summer-dinner-theatre/hey-college-kids-our-2012-intern-applications-are-now-online/400669983280602
Auditions for The Confines of Flattery (Triptych Productions @ the Actors' Center) - Mar 28 & 31
https://www.facebook.com/events/149321655190217/
Flash mob rehearsals - Mar 31 to Apr 3
Please submit headshot or recent photo and relevant experience to: gaylordcenterflashmob@gmail.com
Audition (alight dance theater) - Apr 14
https://www.facebook.com/events/322482254475426/
Audition (Revision @ Dance Place) - Jun 15
http://www.danceplace.org/news/audition-revision-dance-collaborative/
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Present Happenings:
I Get No Kick from Campaign! (Hexagon @ MC's Cultural Arts Center) Mar 9 to 24 / DC PAL: Steven Wolf
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Theatre Alliance @ H Street Playhouse) - Mar 12 to Apr 1 / DC PAL: Colin Hovde
https://www.facebook.com/events/349635208392659/
An Adaptation of Julius Caeser (Molotov Theatre Company) - Mar 15 to Apr 7
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Ephemeral Happenings:
Zombie Prom: The Musical (Metropolitan Performing Arts Theatre) - Mar 16 to 18 / DC PAL: Katy Chmura
https://www.facebook.com/events/123446857776807/
Dances that Move Us (@ Yola) - Mar 19 / DC PAL: Ilana Silverstein
https://www.facebook.com/events/159715094149237/
Oasis - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (NY2Dance @ Dance Place) - Mar 24 & 25 / DC PAL: Nejla Yatkin
https://www.facebook.com/events/388466861183401/
JDT Goes to Hollywood (Jazzlan Dance Theatre) - Mar 28 & 29 / DC PAL: JR Russ, Laurie Newton
https://www.facebook.com/events/218140004932515/
The Jamestown ES 4th Annual A cappellafest to benefit LLS (Cartoon Johnny, Vox Pop, and Euphonism) - Mar 30 / DC PAL: Guye Turner
https://www.facebook.com/events/220763074688653/
DC Swan Day - Mar 31 / DC PAL: Catherine Aselford
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Future Happenings:
Galactica's Free Happy Hour Show (@ Black Fox) - Mar 23 to :-)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Galacticas-Free-Happy-Hour-Show-at-Black-Fox/294026423996220
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And that's it for March!! Hope everyone's enjoying the weekend and please keep me hitting me up as well as sharing on the wall what's happening,
JR
