To Be Or No To Be…Plat(form) Is The Question
by SJ Hodges
I wake this morning and find an email from an old friend in my inbox. Excerpts from his new novel. He’d like some feedback. Wants to know where to shop it. How to shop it. As a ghostwriter, I’ve dipped my pinky toe in the publishing pool. Been lucky enough to sell fiction off a proposal (when that was still possible), muscle a unheard-of memoir into a movie deal (when that was still possible) and will soon head back out in the market with a currently unnamed reality TV star’s life story. I have skirted around the periphery of the industry, clinging to the coattails of those personalities with “platform” in order to stay on the shelves. My friend has never ventured into books. As a screenwriter, he’s battled other demons. The kind who wear Armani. The kind who hire interns to read on their behalf. A different kind of beast. This is why he thinks I might have sage words to share.
I respond favorably to his excerpt. A whole world contained within a few pages. It’s nice to hear his voice in my head again, after so many years on opposite coasts. I write back with encouragement and suggest that he finish the complete manuscript before showing it to agents or editors. With the major publishing houses in massive transition from dinosauric to digitized, an unpublished, “brand-new” writer with great talent, a half-finished manuscript and no platform is easily cast aside.
It used to be that product created platform. Now, platform creates product.
First time novelists are told to launch a website, to start a blog. Or contribute to blogs. Or to blog tour. They are encouraged to tweet. No, they are expected to tweet. They’re told that their followers need to number in the thousands. No, the hundreds of thousands. I login to Facebook each day to find double friend requests smiling back at me with the same photo attached. Writers, actors, directors setting up two separate accounts: one professional, one personal. Platform, platform, platform.
I know what it takes to put the platform on the page because I’m the one actually typing up that proposal. The one that will land a six-figure deal for someone else. I’ve seen the remarkable numbers that some aspiring authors bring to the table. I’ve mastered the careful calculations necessary to estimate past and projected media impressions – broadcast and print. I’ve learned the term “back-of-room merchandising efforts” and can, without blinking an eye, recite a massive list of alternative income stream opportunities. I’ve massaged the statistical analysis of demographic draws to more favorably represent my clients and I should have a PhD in branding, trending, promotional packaging…
It can be paralyzing.
It can kill creativity.
It has nearly killed my first novel.
To write in the face of obscurity. This is nothing new. From the moment the first person ever carved into a cave wall, every writer’s greatest fear is to have opened the vein allowing their life to spill and splatter and spurt onto the wall, onto the page and to have that effort go unrecognized, unappreciated, unheard. It’s just now…publishers and agents have the actual numbers to confront you. They’ve got the hard evidence, the proof…you most definitely are not Ashton Kutcher. You. Are. Unknown.
Still, I write. And my friends write. And we email each other excerpts of our work and ask for feedback. We tweet, wax poetic on our Facewalls and ask for connections. On the bad days, when the words are slow to form and Charlie Sheen instantaneously accumulates 150,000 followers on Twitter without even tweeting, I try to remember the stillness and quiet perfection of my days at The MacDowell Colony where every year, 250 artists, some known, most unknown, wander among the woods, hunker down in cozy cabins and create.
It was enough, those days at the MacDowell, to be alone in the woods. To write, to eat, to share wine with newfound friends. Having no connection to or awareness of the business, it was a freedom. There was happiness to be found there. Beside the fireplace, with a warm thermos of tomato soup watching fluffy flakes of sugary snow drift against my front door. After seven years spent on the sunny beaches of L.A., I can watch snow fall for hours.
It was enough, the writing. It was enough to sustain me.
It is a feeling I often try to conjure as I walk my daily tightrope stretched between creativity and commercialism, meaning and marketing, product and platform. As I program my days into chunks of time: minutes to wake, minutes to eat, minutes to shower, walk, return calls, build a website, meet a new contact, and oh yeah, write.
I click on my inbox. Find another friend’s new chapter on the screen. Read it. Love it. Want to hear more. And in that moment, I choose not to calculate her media impressions. I choose not brainstorm tie-in merchandising opportunities. I choose not click to follow her tweets. Instead, I send her words of encouragement. Then I say those same words aloud to myself. Creation for the sake of creation. It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay.
In the sunny confines of my Santa Monica office, I close my eyes and listen for snow.
SJ Hodges writes for the stage, tv, screen and print. She can be contacted via Facebook at The Constant Creator and followed on Twitter @constantcreator.
Showing posts with label marketing your work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marketing your work. Show all posts
March 01, 2011
July 30, 2010
First Peoples Fund Accepting Applications for Artist in Business Leadership Program
The First Peoples Fund's Artist in Business Leadership program is designed to help Native American artists develop their marketing and business skills and establish self-sustaining arts-based businesses.
This business arts fellowship program is a one-year self-directed program providing individualized professional development training and working capital funds to strengthen participants' marketing strategies. The fellowship also provides a focus on new work to stimulate creativity and a renewal of energy in Native art expression.
Artists are selected for the program based on demonstrated artistic talent, evidence of entrepreneurial experience and potential, and adherence to the values of the First Peoples Fund. Applicants must have experience in marketing their art at Indian art markets and galleries.
Applicants must be members of a Northern Great Plains tribe located in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Western Dakota of Minnesota, Nebraska, the Eastern Plateau region of Idaho, Oregon, or Washington; a tribe from the Great Lakes Region of Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin; a tribe belonging to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard states; or an Alaskan tribe. Affiliated Canadian First Nations artist applicants are also eligible.
This business arts fellowship program is a one-year self-directed program providing individualized professional development training and working capital funds to strengthen participants' marketing strategies. The fellowship also provides a focus on new work to stimulate creativity and a renewal of energy in Native art expression.
Artists are selected for the program based on demonstrated artistic talent, evidence of entrepreneurial experience and potential, and adherence to the values of the First Peoples Fund. Applicants must have experience in marketing their art at Indian art markets and galleries.
Applicants must be members of a Northern Great Plains tribe located in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Western Dakota of Minnesota, Nebraska, the Eastern Plateau region of Idaho, Oregon, or Washington; a tribe from the Great Lakes Region of Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin; a tribe belonging to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard states; or an Alaskan tribe. Affiliated Canadian First Nations artist applicants are also eligible.
July 12, 2010
Casting Call: Reality for Entertainment Types
A new competition series showcasing a top Hollywood entertainment career coach is looking for skilled professionals in the entertainment industry who are interested in upping their roster of contacts and jobs. The show seeks five outgoing and ambitious candidates who are either directors or below-the-line crew members. Candidates must live in Los Angeles and be available from August 26 to 29. Interested applicants can send an email to: casting@TheGreenlightCoach.com and include name, age, contact numbers, recent photo, classification(s) and why you would be great on the show.
THE SCREENWRITING EXPO, OCT 7-10, 2010, IS.....
120+ seminars and classes...Guests of Honor...plus this year we're inviting producers and agents as our special guests just so they'll mingle with you.
FROM $300 LEFT TO HIS NAME TO $110 MILLION AT THE BOX OFFICE
Do not miss this exciting presentation: this writer gave up a comfortable movie executive job to become a screenwriter. He worked at it day and night. He used up his savings. He was down to his last $300 and desperate. And then ...
No, he did NOT use connections or get lucky. He broke in by doing something you could have thought of yourself, and that you could do from home whether you live under the shadow of a studio or off in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. And $110 million at the box office later, this multiple-major-movie writer is coming to the Expo to tell you how he made it in Hollywood. How YOU can if your work is good.
MARKETING YOURSELF AND YOUR SCREENPLAYS–THE STEP-BY-STEP COURSE
Speaking of how to break in: for the very first time, the Expo will present a three-hour course on how to market your screenplay, by legendary live-online screenwriting teacher Hal Croasmun. And always, the Screenwriting Expo is THE place to choose from 100 screenwriting classes, talk to Hollywood's top screenwriters, pitch your scripts at the Golden Pitch, and network with other writers.
FROM $300 LEFT TO HIS NAME TO $110 MILLION AT THE BOX OFFICE
Do not miss this exciting presentation: this writer gave up a comfortable movie executive job to become a screenwriter. He worked at it day and night. He used up his savings. He was down to his last $300 and desperate. And then ...
No, he did NOT use connections or get lucky. He broke in by doing something you could have thought of yourself, and that you could do from home whether you live under the shadow of a studio or off in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. And $110 million at the box office later, this multiple-major-movie writer is coming to the Expo to tell you how he made it in Hollywood. How YOU can if your work is good.
MARKETING YOURSELF AND YOUR SCREENPLAYS–THE STEP-BY-STEP COURSE
Speaking of how to break in: for the very first time, the Expo will present a three-hour course on how to market your screenplay, by legendary live-online screenwriting teacher Hal Croasmun. And always, the Screenwriting Expo is THE place to choose from 100 screenwriting classes, talk to Hollywood's top screenwriters, pitch your scripts at the Golden Pitch, and network with other writers.
July 07, 2010
Paley DocFest Pitch Contest
Submission Deadline! August 17
The PaleyDocFest Pitch Contest offers a $5,000 grant, sponsored by SnagFilms, for an unfinished or work-in-progress documentary from an emerging filmmaker.
The Paley Center for Media is using this contest, now in its seventh year, to choose five finalists who will pitch their unfinished films to a panel of experts and producers in front of an audience. This event, the PaleyDocFest Pitch Workshop, will take place on Saturday, October 16, 2010, in New York as part of the Paley Center's eleventh annual documentary festival.
PITCH WORKSHOP PANEL
Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director, POV
Lauren Lazin, Filmmaker and Executive Producer, MTV Networks
Andrew Mer, Vice President, Content Partnerships, SnagFilms
Molly Thompson, Programming Director, A&E Indie Films
Susan Werbe, Executive Producer, History
To Enter Pitch Contest
To enter this contest, you must submit no more than ten minutes of footage from an UNFINISHED or WORK-IN-PROGRESS feature-length documentary that you hope to pitch to our panel. You must also send in a printed and filled-out entry form (below.)
We will judge entries based on the originality of your vision and the viability of the concept. At the pitch workshop, finalists will be judged by originality, viability and the persuasiveness of their pitch to our panel.
Entries must be postmarked by deadline. Deadlines and fees are as follows:
Earlybird deadline: July 20, 2010 ($20 / $15 for Withoutabox members)
Regular deadline: Aug. 17, 2010 ($25 / $20 for Withoutabox members)
Late deadline: Sept. 7, 2010 ($30 / $25 for Withoutabox members)
Withoutabox extended deadline: Sept. 14, 2010 ($45 / $30 for Withoutabox members)
There are two ways to submit:
1) We accept entries through Withoutabox.
OR
2) To submit on your own, download the PDF forms by clicking on title above.
Overview
Official Rules
Entry Form & Submission Agreement
Then print out, sign, and mail a complete and fully executed copy of the Entry Form & Submission Agreement, along with your DVD, submission materials, and a check for your entry fee made out to The Paley Center for Media to:
Pitch Workshop
c/o The Paley Center for Media
9th Floor
25 West 52 Street
New York, NY 10019
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2009: From Texas to Tehran directed by Till Schauder
2008: Circo directed by Aaron Schock
2007: The House that Herman Built directed by Angad Bhalla
2006: Whatever it Takes directed by Christopher Wong
2005: Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly
The PaleyDocFest Pitch Contest offers a $5,000 grant, sponsored by SnagFilms, for an unfinished or work-in-progress documentary from an emerging filmmaker.
The Paley Center for Media is using this contest, now in its seventh year, to choose five finalists who will pitch their unfinished films to a panel of experts and producers in front of an audience. This event, the PaleyDocFest Pitch Workshop, will take place on Saturday, October 16, 2010, in New York as part of the Paley Center's eleventh annual documentary festival.
PITCH WORKSHOP PANEL
Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director, POV
Lauren Lazin, Filmmaker and Executive Producer, MTV Networks
Andrew Mer, Vice President, Content Partnerships, SnagFilms
Molly Thompson, Programming Director, A&E Indie Films
Susan Werbe, Executive Producer, History
To Enter Pitch Contest
To enter this contest, you must submit no more than ten minutes of footage from an UNFINISHED or WORK-IN-PROGRESS feature-length documentary that you hope to pitch to our panel. You must also send in a printed and filled-out entry form (below.)
We will judge entries based on the originality of your vision and the viability of the concept. At the pitch workshop, finalists will be judged by originality, viability and the persuasiveness of their pitch to our panel.
Entries must be postmarked by deadline. Deadlines and fees are as follows:
Earlybird deadline: July 20, 2010 ($20 / $15 for Withoutabox members)
Regular deadline: Aug. 17, 2010 ($25 / $20 for Withoutabox members)
Late deadline: Sept. 7, 2010 ($30 / $25 for Withoutabox members)
Withoutabox extended deadline: Sept. 14, 2010 ($45 / $30 for Withoutabox members)
There are two ways to submit:
1) We accept entries through Withoutabox.
OR
2) To submit on your own, download the PDF forms by clicking on title above.
Overview
Official Rules
Entry Form & Submission Agreement
Then print out, sign, and mail a complete and fully executed copy of the Entry Form & Submission Agreement, along with your DVD, submission materials, and a check for your entry fee made out to The Paley Center for Media to:
Pitch Workshop
c/o The Paley Center for Media
9th Floor
25 West 52 Street
New York, NY 10019
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2009: From Texas to Tehran directed by Till Schauder
2008: Circo directed by Aaron Schock
2007: The House that Herman Built directed by Angad Bhalla
2006: Whatever it Takes directed by Christopher Wong
2005: Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly
June 30, 2010
pittsburgh pirates want local musicians to play at games
the pittsburgh pirates have begun featuring local musicians for entertainment during their home games.
they kicked off their local music initiative in april, starting with hometown band the aviation blondes. each band featured gets a song played during the sixth-inning break while its name and song title are displayed on the jumbotron.
all songs are currently hand-picked by eric wolff, the pirates' manager of in-game presentations.
for more information, click on title above.
February 24, 2010
AWARDS WEEK MIXER
IDA Mixer at The Standard Hotel, Hollywood
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
International Documentary Association
invites you & a guest to celebrate Awards Week
at The Standard Hotel, Hollywood
Join other IDA members as well as documentary filmmakers
nominated for this year's Spirit and Academy Awards as the
2010 awards season comes to a dramatic close.
IDA staff & board members will help you get connected to the
documentary community, share your projects, meet new friends
and build your professional network.
December 02, 2009
Call for Entries
San Francisco International Film Festival
The longest-running film festival in the Americas, the San Francisco International Film Festival, recognized throughout the world for bringing eclectic, intelligent and adventurous programs and events to discerning and passionate Bay Area audiences is accepting submissions to SFIFF53 (April 22-May 6, 2010). Works in all genres, forms and lengths are considered.
The final deadline is Friday, December 4; the final deadline for documentary features only is December 21.
The 15 day International presents 200 films from 40 countries to an audience of 82,000 film lovers, filmmakers, industry representatives and journalists. Close to $100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to outstanding feature and short films.
Enter your film now at sffs.org
The longest-running film festival in the Americas, the San Francisco International Film Festival, recognized throughout the world for bringing eclectic, intelligent and adventurous programs and events to discerning and passionate Bay Area audiences is accepting submissions to SFIFF53 (April 22-May 6, 2010). Works in all genres, forms and lengths are considered.
The final deadline is Friday, December 4; the final deadline for documentary features only is December 21.
The 15 day International presents 200 films from 40 countries to an audience of 82,000 film lovers, filmmakers, industry representatives and journalists. Close to $100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to outstanding feature and short films.
Enter your film now at sffs.org
November 19, 2009
CALL FOR ENTRIES
NOMADSLAND PRESENTS
Washington DC Film Series
December 2009 - June 2010
NomadsLand Presents Film Series in Washington DC is seeking six social issue documentaries for the 2009-2010 season. (See our trailer here.)
For two successful years, NomadsLand has held monthly documentary screenings in conjunction with legendary progressive eatery, bookstore and salon Busboys and Poets. Our aim this year is to coordinate closely with Washington, D.C. area nonprofits and social enterprises to create 6 themed nights on important social issues and frame the discussion with a fantastic feature documentary.
To see our listing of past films and our upcoming scheduled event dates, click here at MeetUp.
Each screening consists of an independent feature film and 30-minute round-table discussion with the filmmaker. International filmmakers field questions after the screening - whether in-person or via phone or Skype video conferencing.
If you would like your film to be considered for the upcoming season, please send the following information to filmfestival@nomadsland.com.
- The name of the film and a short synopsis
- Your association with the film (producer, distributor, director, etc.)
- A list of festivals the film has been featured in (you must have at least one)
- Links to the film's webpage, critical reviews, online video trailers or full-length streaming-
Your preferred date of screening from our Calendars on Facebook or Meetup.
We prefer newer films (made in the last two years) but will consider all entries. Our deadline is December 10, 2009. We program on a first-com first-serve basis.
We also encourage you to check out our new website and join our growing community site.
All the best,
The Events Team at NomadsLand
http://www.nomadsland.com
http://www.twitter.com/nomadsland
Washington DC Film Series
December 2009 - June 2010
NomadsLand Presents Film Series in Washington DC is seeking six social issue documentaries for the 2009-2010 season. (See our trailer here.)
For two successful years, NomadsLand has held monthly documentary screenings in conjunction with legendary progressive eatery, bookstore and salon Busboys and Poets. Our aim this year is to coordinate closely with Washington, D.C. area nonprofits and social enterprises to create 6 themed nights on important social issues and frame the discussion with a fantastic feature documentary.
To see our listing of past films and our upcoming scheduled event dates, click here at MeetUp.
Each screening consists of an independent feature film and 30-minute round-table discussion with the filmmaker. International filmmakers field questions after the screening - whether in-person or via phone or Skype video conferencing.
If you would like your film to be considered for the upcoming season, please send the following information to filmfestival@nomadsland.com.
- The name of the film and a short synopsis
- Your association with the film (producer, distributor, director, etc.)
- A list of festivals the film has been featured in (you must have at least one)
- Links to the film's webpage, critical reviews, online video trailers or full-length streaming-
Your preferred date of screening from our Calendars on Facebook or Meetup.
We prefer newer films (made in the last two years) but will consider all entries. Our deadline is December 10, 2009. We program on a first-com first-serve basis.
We also encourage you to check out our new website and join our growing community site.
All the best,
The Events Team at NomadsLand
http://www.nomadsland.com
http://www.twitter.com/nomadsland
July 03, 2009
A double published day!
What a life I'm having! After an amazing and inspiring week in WV with HOW CISSY GREW, I returned to LA to have a double-published Tuesday!
The first play, HOW CISSY GREW is now available through Dramatic Publishing. Check out Liz and Stewart on the cover!
You can order copies online:http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p2073/How-Cissy-Grew/product_info.html
The second book is a collection of scenes curated by fellow NYU grad Steve Ramshur and published by Smith & Kraus. It's called KISS OR KILL: CONTACT SCENES OF LOVE & STRIFE FOR YOUNG ACTORS and it includes a scene from my play BETTER DAYS PART ONE: ON THE ROAD TO FIND OUT.
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Kill-Contact-Scenes-Strife/dp/1575255820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8& ;s=books&qid=1246398886&sr=8-1
Thanks to all of you for your continued support of my work and please, find me or become a fan of HOW CISSY GREW on Facebook for more regular updates.
The first play, HOW CISSY GREW is now available through Dramatic Publishing. Check out Liz and Stewart on the cover!
You can order copies online:http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p2073/How-Cissy-Grew/product_info.html
The second book is a collection of scenes curated by fellow NYU grad Steve Ramshur and published by Smith & Kraus. It's called KISS OR KILL: CONTACT SCENES OF LOVE & STRIFE FOR YOUNG ACTORS and it includes a scene from my play BETTER DAYS PART ONE: ON THE ROAD TO FIND OUT.
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Kill-Contact-Scenes-Strife/dp/1575255820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8& ;s=books&qid=1246398886&sr=8-1
Thanks to all of you for your continued support of my work and please, find me or become a fan of HOW CISSY GREW on Facebook for more regular updates.
May 20, 2009
Haig P. Manoogian Screenings
June 2, 5:00 PM, 6:30 PM & 8:00 PM:
Haig P. Manoogian Screenings,
Directors Guild of America
7920 Sunset Blvd.
(West Hollywood, CA)
Presented by the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, this is the annual screenings of Graduate & Undergraduate Wasserman / King Finalists and Graduate & Undergraduate Wasserman & King Winners.
A reception follows the last screening, along with audience choice awards. No reservations necessary. Admissions and parking are free.
May 18, 2009
grants
Tournées Festival Offers Grants to Bring Contemporary French Cinema to U.S. College Campuses
Grants of up to $2,300 will be given to American universities or colleges conducting a French cinema festival featuring at least five different films....Posted on May 13, 2009
Deadline: June 30, 2009 and October 1, 2009
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces New Technology Funding Program for Jazz
Grants of up to $75,000 each will be awarded to jazz musicians and nonprofits using technology to develop audience, communications, marketing, distribution channels, and networking for jazz performance....Posted on May 13, 2009
Deadline: July 6, 2009 (Round I); and July 1, 2010 (Round II)
Grants of up to $2,300 will be given to American universities or colleges conducting a French cinema festival featuring at least five different films....Posted on May 13, 2009
Deadline: June 30, 2009 and October 1, 2009
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces New Technology Funding Program for Jazz
Grants of up to $75,000 each will be awarded to jazz musicians and nonprofits using technology to develop audience, communications, marketing, distribution channels, and networking for jazz performance....Posted on May 13, 2009
Deadline: July 6, 2009 (Round I); and July 1, 2010 (Round II)
May 07, 2009
How Cissy Grew staged reading at FesivALL in Charleston, WV
“How Cissy Grew” by Susan Johnston (staged reading)
Event Details
Date/Time:
Monday, June 22, 2009 8:00 pm
Buy Tickets:
http://www.theClayCenter.org
Sponsors:
Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Architectural Products
Corbett, Inc
InterfaceFlor Commercial
Charleston High grad, Susan Johnston, was honored last April in front of an overflow crowd of 700 raucous theatergoers, creators and fans at the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards. Miss Johnston was recognized for her play, “How Cissy Grew”, which had its world premiere run at The El Portal Forum Theatre from October to November 2008 starring James Denton of Desperate Housewives, Erin J. O’Brien, Liz Vital and Stewart Calhoun who was also nominated by LA Weekly for Best Supporting Male Performance for his role as “The Guy”. All of these actors, as well as the original director and Ms. Johnston will be here for a staged reading of the play.
“How Cissy Grew” tracks the implosion of a West Virginia family over the twenty years following their baby’s mysterious and brief abduction. Best known for her plays, Old Woman Flying and One Girl Drummer, Miss Johnston’s work has been produced and/or read at Mill Mountain, City Lights Youth Theatre, The Jungle, Centenary Stage, The O’Neill, The Peter Norton Space, The Lark, The Echo, Manhattan Theatre Space, NADA, La MaMa, Provincetown Playhouse, etc. She is a six-time published playwright who completed her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a Jerome and a nomination for a Fulbright. She has worked as a film industry reporter for Interview magazine and an interstitial writer for A&E’s Biography series. Her first novel, Party Favors, is on shelves now. In May, Miss Johnston was honored by NYU with a Meritorious Alumni Service Award for her work helping to establish alumni programs on both the West and East coasts.
The play was critically hailed from the offset. The LA Times called the play “absorbing” and said, “Johnston’s monologues for the guilt-stricken Butch, beautifully underplayed by Denton, are the show’s highlights.” Daily Variety said, “Susan Johnston examines the jagged shards of a dysfunctional family's sorrowful history, offering compelling glimpses into the aftermath of a horrific event.”
"Compelling glimpses into the aftermath of a horrific event." —Variety
"Piercingly painful and beautifully wrought." —LA Weekly
"70 searing minutes." —LA Daily News
"Spellbinding and seductive." —Theatermania.com
Cost: $19 (festival seating)
Link: http://www.festivallcharleston.com/event/%E2%80%9Chow-cissy-grew%E2%80%9D-susan-johnston-staged-reading
Location
Clay Center on stage (Enter through Walker Theatre entrance)
One Clay Square
Charleston, WV, 25301
(304) 561-3570
Event Details
Date/Time:
Monday, June 22, 2009 8:00 pm
Buy Tickets:
http://www.theClayCenter.org
Sponsors:
Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Architectural Products
Corbett, Inc
InterfaceFlor Commercial
Charleston High grad, Susan Johnston, was honored last April in front of an overflow crowd of 700 raucous theatergoers, creators and fans at the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards. Miss Johnston was recognized for her play, “How Cissy Grew”, which had its world premiere run at The El Portal Forum Theatre from October to November 2008 starring James Denton of Desperate Housewives, Erin J. O’Brien, Liz Vital and Stewart Calhoun who was also nominated by LA Weekly for Best Supporting Male Performance for his role as “The Guy”. All of these actors, as well as the original director and Ms. Johnston will be here for a staged reading of the play.
“How Cissy Grew” tracks the implosion of a West Virginia family over the twenty years following their baby’s mysterious and brief abduction. Best known for her plays, Old Woman Flying and One Girl Drummer, Miss Johnston’s work has been produced and/or read at Mill Mountain, City Lights Youth Theatre, The Jungle, Centenary Stage, The O’Neill, The Peter Norton Space, The Lark, The Echo, Manhattan Theatre Space, NADA, La MaMa, Provincetown Playhouse, etc. She is a six-time published playwright who completed her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a Jerome and a nomination for a Fulbright. She has worked as a film industry reporter for Interview magazine and an interstitial writer for A&E’s Biography series. Her first novel, Party Favors, is on shelves now. In May, Miss Johnston was honored by NYU with a Meritorious Alumni Service Award for her work helping to establish alumni programs on both the West and East coasts.
The play was critically hailed from the offset. The LA Times called the play “absorbing” and said, “Johnston’s monologues for the guilt-stricken Butch, beautifully underplayed by Denton, are the show’s highlights.” Daily Variety said, “Susan Johnston examines the jagged shards of a dysfunctional family's sorrowful history, offering compelling glimpses into the aftermath of a horrific event.”
"Compelling glimpses into the aftermath of a horrific event." —Variety
"Piercingly painful and beautifully wrought." —LA Weekly
"70 searing minutes." —LA Daily News
"Spellbinding and seductive." —Theatermania.com
Cost: $19 (festival seating)
Link: http://www.festivallcharleston.com/event/%E2%80%9Chow-cissy-grew%E2%80%9D-susan-johnston-staged-reading
Location
Clay Center on stage (Enter through Walker Theatre entrance)
One Clay Square
Charleston, WV, 25301
(304) 561-3570
April 17, 2009
IDA Panel at Digital Hollywood's 1st Content Summit!
International Documentary Assocation presents:
How to Grow your own Audience: Alternative Methods of Distribution and Marketing for Documentary Films
Tuesday, May 5 - 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue info:
The Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
1700 Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Moderator: Eddie Schmidt, President of the board, IDA
Speakers: Adam Chapnick, President, DocWorkers; Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Writer/Director, The Garden; Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms; Peter Yared, CEO, iWidgets; Steve Savage, Co-principal, New Video
The IDA is giving away 2 Free Day-passes! Be the first to email: maria@documentary.org with the subject "Free Digital Hollywood Spring Pass".
The Creation of a new event at DH, The Digital Hollywood Content Summit. We're bringing the world of content creators into the fold of digital production, marketing and technology. A series of panels on Tuesday, May 5 takes the audience through the creative process.
Including: Keynote Conversation: Tim Kring, creator of Heroes in conversation with Brian Seth Hurst, CEO, The Opportunity Management Company
The Amazine Line-Up:
David Gale, SVP New Media, MTV Networks; Danila Koverman, Director, HBOlab at HBO; Alexis Rapo, Vice President, ABC Digital Media; John Gilles, Vice President Media & Entertainment, Method; Suzanne Stefanac, Director, AFI Digital Content Lab; David Norton, VP Brand Integration, Ladder Up Media; Mark Vega, Partner/IP Steward, Omelet; Josh Bycel, Co-Executive Producer, Psych (USA Network); Adam Armus, Co-Executive Producer, Heroes (NBC); Jacob Rosenberg, CTO Bandito Brothers; Laura Nix, Director/Producer, Felt Films; John Hamburg, Writer/Director, I Love You Man & Along Came Polly; Adam Drucker,Casting Producer, A&E’s Intervention, Amazing Race; Scott B, Director / Cinematographer, Vortex, LA Coroner; Eva Orner, Academy Award winning producer, Taxi to the Dark Side; Jeffrey Tuchman, Emmy & Peabody Award winning filmmaker, Jamison Tilsner, Co-founder, The Streamy Awards; Adam Chapnick,President, DocWorkers; Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Writer/Director, The Garden; Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms; Peter Yared, CEO, iWidgets; Steve Savage, Co-principal, New Video; Eddie Schmidt, President of the board, IDA; Dave Vamos, Founder, Six Point Harness Studios; Aaron Simpson, Founder, Cold Hard Flash, Lineboil.com; Jorge Gutierrez, Creator “El Tigre,” Nickelodeon; John Andrews, SVP, Klasky Csupo, ka-chew!; Antranig Manoogian, President, ASIFA Hollywood;Glasgow Phillips, Writer, South Park, Kung Fu Panda; Micki Krimmel, Founder Sugar Packet, Inc, Mickipedia.com; Robert Bahar, Filmmaker, Made in LA; Melissa Fitzgerald, Actor & Filmaker, The West Wing, Voices of Uganda; Marc Morgenstern, Executive Director, Declare Yourself; Juan Devis, Director of Production, KCET New Media; Charles Annenberg Weingar! ten, Founder, Explore.com; Brian Sirgutz, President, Causecast
Click HERE for full agenda:
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/09DHSpring/DH09Sp-HollywoodSummit.html
Click HERE for discount registration:
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/DigitalHollywoodReg.html
Dicsount Code: Affiliate Discount
Summit Pricing:
$135 regular, $95 for IDA members (Tuesday, May 5th Only)
Digital Hollywood Pass - Full - 4 Day Pass - Includes the Summit - $685 - Regular - $585 for IDA Members
How to Grow your own Audience: Alternative Methods of Distribution and Marketing for Documentary Films
Tuesday, May 5 - 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue info:
The Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
1700 Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Moderator: Eddie Schmidt, President of the board, IDA
Speakers: Adam Chapnick, President, DocWorkers; Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Writer/Director, The Garden; Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms; Peter Yared, CEO, iWidgets; Steve Savage, Co-principal, New Video
The IDA is giving away 2 Free Day-passes! Be the first to email: maria@documentary.org with the subject "Free Digital Hollywood Spring Pass".
The Creation of a new event at DH, The Digital Hollywood Content Summit. We're bringing the world of content creators into the fold of digital production, marketing and technology. A series of panels on Tuesday, May 5 takes the audience through the creative process.
Including: Keynote Conversation: Tim Kring, creator of Heroes in conversation with Brian Seth Hurst, CEO, The Opportunity Management Company
The Amazine Line-Up:
David Gale, SVP New Media, MTV Networks; Danila Koverman, Director, HBOlab at HBO; Alexis Rapo, Vice President, ABC Digital Media; John Gilles, Vice President Media & Entertainment, Method; Suzanne Stefanac, Director, AFI Digital Content Lab; David Norton, VP Brand Integration, Ladder Up Media; Mark Vega, Partner/IP Steward, Omelet; Josh Bycel, Co-Executive Producer, Psych (USA Network); Adam Armus, Co-Executive Producer, Heroes (NBC); Jacob Rosenberg, CTO Bandito Brothers; Laura Nix, Director/Producer, Felt Films; John Hamburg, Writer/Director, I Love You Man & Along Came Polly; Adam Drucker,Casting Producer, A&E’s Intervention, Amazing Race; Scott B, Director / Cinematographer, Vortex, LA Coroner; Eva Orner, Academy Award winning producer, Taxi to the Dark Side; Jeffrey Tuchman, Emmy & Peabody Award winning filmmaker, Jamison Tilsner, Co-founder, The Streamy Awards; Adam Chapnick,President, DocWorkers; Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Writer/Director, The Garden; Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms; Peter Yared, CEO, iWidgets; Steve Savage, Co-principal, New Video; Eddie Schmidt, President of the board, IDA; Dave Vamos, Founder, Six Point Harness Studios; Aaron Simpson, Founder, Cold Hard Flash, Lineboil.com; Jorge Gutierrez, Creator “El Tigre,” Nickelodeon; John Andrews, SVP, Klasky Csupo, ka-chew!; Antranig Manoogian, President, ASIFA Hollywood;Glasgow Phillips, Writer, South Park, Kung Fu Panda; Micki Krimmel, Founder Sugar Packet, Inc, Mickipedia.com; Robert Bahar, Filmmaker, Made in LA; Melissa Fitzgerald, Actor & Filmaker, The West Wing, Voices of Uganda; Marc Morgenstern, Executive Director, Declare Yourself; Juan Devis, Director of Production, KCET New Media; Charles Annenberg Weingar! ten, Founder, Explore.com; Brian Sirgutz, President, Causecast
Click HERE for full agenda:
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/09DHSpring/DH09Sp-HollywoodSummit.html
Click HERE for discount registration:
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/DigitalHollywoodReg.html
Dicsount Code: Affiliate Discount
Summit Pricing:
$135 regular, $95 for IDA members (Tuesday, May 5th Only)
Digital Hollywood Pass - Full - 4 Day Pass - Includes the Summit - $685 - Regular - $585 for IDA Members
April 08, 2009
IDA DocuWeeks™ CALL FOR ENTRIES
13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcases
Los Angeles & New York City - August 2009
(Specific dates TBA, all screenings completed by August 20, 2009)
Enter Now! Earlybird Deadline: April 14, 2009
DocuWeeks™ helps to qualify outstanding new feature and short documentaries for Academy Award® consideration, by providing its participants with a seven-day commercial theatrical run in Los Angeles County and in the Borough of Manhattan. (Shorts will screen in the County of Los Angeles only, per Academy requirements.)
For complete information about Academy Awards® consideration, please see the 82nd Academy Awards Special Rules for Documentary Awards (Rule Twelve) for complete eligibility and application requirements. Read Rule Twelve here.
Each filmmaker is responsible for submitting the Academy Awards® application. IDA will provide the filmmaker with proof of advertisement, guide listings and theatrical runs for submission to the Academy prior to the Academy deadline.
To apply for IDA's DocuWeeks™ please use the online submission process at Withoutabox.com.
April 02, 2009
30th Annual LA Weekly Theatre Awards
The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
Actors and chickens and bears, oh, my!
Actors and chickens and bears, oh, my!
By Steven Leigh Morris
Published on April 01, 2009 at 9:41pm
Published on April 01, 2009 at 9:41pm
View more photos in the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards slideshow.
Dancing girls and impersonators joined co-hosts Jake Broder and Vanessa Claire Smith to transform the El Rey Theatre into the stage of Las Vegas’ Sahara Hotel, 1958, for the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards on Monday night. Reprising their roles as lounge crooners Louis Prima and Keely Smith in their hit show Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara (now at the Geffen Playhouse), Broder and Smith were supported by their production’s six-piece jazz band and a gallery of supporting players from Sacred Fools Theater Company. That show walked away with the Musical of the Year Award in a very tight vote with some very heady competition from Joe’s Garage at Open Fist Theatre Company and Lovelace: A Rock Opera at the Hayworth. For much of the evening, the raucous, overflow crowd of 700 treated the excellent production, nicely paced by director Jeremy Aldridge, as a backdrop to their drinking and socializing.
From the stage, Queen of the Angels recipient Frédérique Michel repeatedly told the revelers to shut up. The only performer who could command some silence was Gwendolyn the chicken, who appeared contentedly on the arm of Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie, as he gave a mock, somber homage to our hard times, adding that he always wanted to appear onstage with his pecker in his hand.
(Gwendolyn had been eating birdseed for a solid hour before her performance, and Ritchie was hoping that she would complement his performance by unloading during the act, but the bird was too well brought-up for such low comedy.)
Adding to the Dada were the artistic directors of the Colony Theatre and Geffen Playhouse, Barbara Beckley and Gil Cates, who performed a duet of “Under My Skin,” to which the Los Angeles Stage Alliance’s executive director Terence McFarland performed a spirited interpretive dance.
County Supervisor Zev Yaraslovksy’s keynote address acknowledged that the smaller theaters (the purview of the Weekly’s Theater Awards) are where the future of the theater lies, and Career Achievement recipient Dakin Matthews appeared digitally from Singapore, where he’s performing with an international company, directed by Sam Mendes. (Matthews’ fellow cast members Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Roger Bean, Paul Jesson, Richard Easton, and Rebecca Hall also sent their greetings to L.A. from Southeast Asia.) Matthews closed his video with a nod to Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction — “Exit, pursued by a bear” _ for Antigonus, whom Matthews is currently playing in The Winter’s Tale. As Matthews spoke, a large bear head entered the scene.
AND THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2009 L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ARE ...
PLAY WRITING
*Susan Johnston, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Dancing girls and impersonators joined co-hosts Jake Broder and Vanessa Claire Smith to transform the El Rey Theatre into the stage of Las Vegas’ Sahara Hotel, 1958, for the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards on Monday night. Reprising their roles as lounge crooners Louis Prima and Keely Smith in their hit show Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara (now at the Geffen Playhouse), Broder and Smith were supported by their production’s six-piece jazz band and a gallery of supporting players from Sacred Fools Theater Company. That show walked away with the Musical of the Year Award in a very tight vote with some very heady competition from Joe’s Garage at Open Fist Theatre Company and Lovelace: A Rock Opera at the Hayworth. For much of the evening, the raucous, overflow crowd of 700 treated the excellent production, nicely paced by director Jeremy Aldridge, as a backdrop to their drinking and socializing.
From the stage, Queen of the Angels recipient Frédérique Michel repeatedly told the revelers to shut up. The only performer who could command some silence was Gwendolyn the chicken, who appeared contentedly on the arm of Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie, as he gave a mock, somber homage to our hard times, adding that he always wanted to appear onstage with his pecker in his hand.
(Gwendolyn had been eating birdseed for a solid hour before her performance, and Ritchie was hoping that she would complement his performance by unloading during the act, but the bird was too well brought-up for such low comedy.)
Adding to the Dada were the artistic directors of the Colony Theatre and Geffen Playhouse, Barbara Beckley and Gil Cates, who performed a duet of “Under My Skin,” to which the Los Angeles Stage Alliance’s executive director Terence McFarland performed a spirited interpretive dance.
County Supervisor Zev Yaraslovksy’s keynote address acknowledged that the smaller theaters (the purview of the Weekly’s Theater Awards) are where the future of the theater lies, and Career Achievement recipient Dakin Matthews appeared digitally from Singapore, where he’s performing with an international company, directed by Sam Mendes. (Matthews’ fellow cast members Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Roger Bean, Paul Jesson, Richard Easton, and Rebecca Hall also sent their greetings to L.A. from Southeast Asia.) Matthews closed his video with a nod to Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction — “Exit, pursued by a bear” _ for Antigonus, whom Matthews is currently playing in The Winter’s Tale. As Matthews spoke, a large bear head entered the scene.
AND THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2009 L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ARE ...
PLAY WRITING
*Susan Johnston, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
For more information about other winners and links to the slideshow:
March 06, 2009
grants
Chicago Community Trust Announces Arts Engagement Grant Program for Small Organizations
Deadline: April 15, 2009
As part of the Arts Engagement Exchange (formerly the Chicago Wallace Audience Engagement Network), the Chicago Community Trust (http://www.cct.org/ ) has collaborated with the Wallace Foundation ( http://www.wallacefoundation.org/ ) and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs to create knowledge-sharing sessions and small grants for arts organizations working to build, diversify, and engage audiences. This new grant opportunity is designed to ensure that marketing momentum is not lost due to economic concerns.
Grants awarded through the program are solely for the purpose of marketing productions, programs, and exhibits that are being planned for the 2009-10 season. Proposals may include all marketing-related expenses, including marketing staff and a reasonable percent of executive or support staff; all other aspects of the production, program, exhibit, or events must be obtained from other sources, which should be clearly identified.
Applicants must be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations located in the metro Chicago area. Applicants must have annual budgets of less than $1 million and must have at least one paid employee Grants will range in size from to $5,000 to $25,000.
Visit the CCT Web site for complete program guidelines.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15017164/cityofchicago
For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml
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New Jersey State Council on the Arts Announces Guidelines for Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
Deadline: April 3, 2009
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (http://www.njartscouncil.org/ ) has announced the availability of guidelines for its 2010 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program.
Folk Arts Apprenticeships support the traditional arts and crafts of New Jersey's many different cultural communities, helping talented apprentice artists further hone their skills by working
directly with a master artist belonging to a shared community.
Apprentices may request up to $3,000 each to support an intensive regimen of study with a master artist for up to twelve months. The application process requires that each interested apprentice apply with a master artist as a team by providing comprehensive, detailed information of their shared artistic cultural backgrounds and their planned scope of work together.
Visit the Council on the Arts Web site for complete program information.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15017165/njartscouncil
For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml
Deadline: April 15, 2009
As part of the Arts Engagement Exchange (formerly the Chicago Wallace Audience Engagement Network), the Chicago Community Trust (http://www.cct.org/ ) has collaborated with the Wallace Foundation ( http://www.wallacefoundation.org/ ) and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs to create knowledge-sharing sessions and small grants for arts organizations working to build, diversify, and engage audiences. This new grant opportunity is designed to ensure that marketing momentum is not lost due to economic concerns.
Grants awarded through the program are solely for the purpose of marketing productions, programs, and exhibits that are being planned for the 2009-10 season. Proposals may include all marketing-related expenses, including marketing staff and a reasonable percent of executive or support staff; all other aspects of the production, program, exhibit, or events must be obtained from other sources, which should be clearly identified.
Applicants must be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations located in the metro Chicago area. Applicants must have annual budgets of less than $1 million and must have at least one paid employee Grants will range in size from to $5,000 to $25,000.
Visit the CCT Web site for complete program guidelines.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15017164/cityofchicago
For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml
--------------------------<<>>-----------------------------
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Announces Guidelines for Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
Deadline: April 3, 2009
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (http://www.njartscouncil.org/ ) has announced the availability of guidelines for its 2010 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program.
Folk Arts Apprenticeships support the traditional arts and crafts of New Jersey's many different cultural communities, helping talented apprentice artists further hone their skills by working
directly with a master artist belonging to a shared community.
Apprentices may request up to $3,000 each to support an intensive regimen of study with a master artist for up to twelve months. The application process requires that each interested apprentice apply with a master artist as a team by providing comprehensive, detailed information of their shared artistic cultural backgrounds and their planned scope of work together.
Visit the Council on the Arts Web site for complete program information.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15017165/njartscouncil
For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml
January 21, 2009
exciting news!!!!
HOW CISSY GREW has received two nominations from LA Weekly's 30th Annual Theater Awards:
SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Stewart W. Calhoun, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Mark Doerr, Lady, Road Theatre Company
Matt Kirkwood, Lady, Road Theatre Company
Matt Lutz, 1776, Actors Co-op
David Nadeau, Assassins, West Coast Ensemble at the El Centro Theatre
Christopher Neiman, He Asked for It, Theatre of NOTE
Skip Pipo, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Production Company at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center
Paul Witten, Crime and Punishment, Actors' Co-op
PLAY WRITING
Susan Johnston, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Richard Martin Hirsh, The Concept of Remainders, The Production Company at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center
Robert Riechel, Jr. A.K.A. Eat the Runt, Hudson Guild Theatre
Dan Rothenberg, Regretosexual: The Love Story, Hudson Guild Theatre
Nick Salamone, Sea Change, Gay and Lesbian Center
For a full list of nominees and more information at the awards:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/stage-news/stage-raw-la-weekly-theater-aw/
SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Stewart W. Calhoun, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Mark Doerr, Lady, Road Theatre Company
Matt Kirkwood, Lady, Road Theatre Company
Matt Lutz, 1776, Actors Co-op
David Nadeau, Assassins, West Coast Ensemble at the El Centro Theatre
Christopher Neiman, He Asked for It, Theatre of NOTE
Skip Pipo, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Production Company at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center
Paul Witten, Crime and Punishment, Actors' Co-op
PLAY WRITING
Susan Johnston, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Richard Martin Hirsh, The Concept of Remainders, The Production Company at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center
Robert Riechel, Jr. A.K.A. Eat the Runt, Hudson Guild Theatre
Dan Rothenberg, Regretosexual: The Love Story, Hudson Guild Theatre
Nick Salamone, Sea Change, Gay and Lesbian Center
For a full list of nominees and more information at the awards:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/stage-news/stage-raw-la-weekly-theater-aw/
December 02, 2008
Free Arts Advice in LA
FREE ARTS ADVICE FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AT "ARTS TUNE-UP"
DECEMBER 6
AT POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
IN CLAREMONT
Individual artists and small budget organizations can benefit from free expert advice and information on various aspects of arts management on Saturday, December 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at an "Arts Tune-Up" at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Even though the event is free, it is recommended that participants register via SurveyMonkey:
Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/lacac_atupomona08
The fast -paced "arts tune-up" format works like this: There will be several tables set up with an arts expert/consultant addressing a specific subject located at each table. Participants choose a topic they want to learn more about. After 25 minutes, participants rotate to another table with a topic of interest as the sessions repeat. There will be a total of 5 round-robin sessions of 25 minutes each. Participants are welcome to come by for an hour or stay for the entire
morning.
Topics for individual artists include Advocacy, Arts Education In-School Resources (K-12) & Working in Arts Education (K-12), Fundraising for Individual Artists, Getting Your Sh*t Together, Health Insurance for Individual Artists, Intro to Public Art, Legal Issues & Contracts,
Copyright and Collections, Marketing for Visual Artists, and PR (for Performing Artists).
Topics for small budget arts organizations include Advocacy, Arts Education In-School Resources (K-12) & Working in Arts Education (K-12), Board Leadership for Challenging Times, Fundraising for Organizations, Legal Issues & Contracts, Copyright and Collections, and Marketing for Organizations.
THE FACTS
WHAT
ARTS TUNE-UP for Individual Artists and Small Budget Arts Organizations
WHEN
Saturday, December 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE
Pomona College Museum of Art Montgomery Art Center
333 N. College Way
Claremont, CA 91711-6344
HOW MUCH
FREE, but registration is recommended
HOW TO REGISTER
REGISTER through SurveyMonkey.
Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/lacac_atupomona08
PARKING
Parking is available and free of charge.
MORE INFORMATION
Anji Gaspar-Milanovic
Internship and Technical Assistance Coordinator
Los Angeles County Arts Commission, 213 202-3981
The Arts Tune-Up is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont Graduate University's Arts Management Program and Career Management Office, and in collaboration with LA Stage Alliance and Arts for LA.
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Laura Zucker, Executive Director, provides leadership in cultural services of all disciplines for the largest county in the United States, encompassing 88 municipalities. The Arts Commission provides leadership and staffing to
support the regional blueprint for arts education, Arts for All; administers a grants program that funds more than 300 nonprofit arts organizations annually; oversees the County's Civic Art Program for capital projects, funds the largest arts internship program in the country in conjunction with the Getty Foundation, programs the John Anson Ford Theatres and supports the Los Angeles County Cultural Calendar on ExperienceLA.com. The Commission also produces free community programs, including the L.A. Holiday Celebration broadcast nationally, and a year-round music program that funds more than 50 free concerts each year in public sites. The 2008-09 President of the Arts Commission is Betty Haagen.
DECEMBER 6
AT POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
IN CLAREMONT
Individual artists and small budget organizations can benefit from free expert advice and information on various aspects of arts management on Saturday, December 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at an "Arts Tune-Up" at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Even though the event is free, it is recommended that participants register via SurveyMonkey:
Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/lacac_atupomona08
The fast -paced "arts tune-up" format works like this: There will be several tables set up with an arts expert/consultant addressing a specific subject located at each table. Participants choose a topic they want to learn more about. After 25 minutes, participants rotate to another table with a topic of interest as the sessions repeat. There will be a total of 5 round-robin sessions of 25 minutes each. Participants are welcome to come by for an hour or stay for the entire
morning.
Topics for individual artists include Advocacy, Arts Education In-School Resources (K-12) & Working in Arts Education (K-12), Fundraising for Individual Artists, Getting Your Sh*t Together, Health Insurance for Individual Artists, Intro to Public Art, Legal Issues & Contracts,
Copyright and Collections, Marketing for Visual Artists, and PR (for Performing Artists).
Topics for small budget arts organizations include Advocacy, Arts Education In-School Resources (K-12) & Working in Arts Education (K-12), Board Leadership for Challenging Times, Fundraising for Organizations, Legal Issues & Contracts, Copyright and Collections, and Marketing for Organizations.
THE FACTS
WHAT
ARTS TUNE-UP for Individual Artists and Small Budget Arts Organizations
WHEN
Saturday, December 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE
Pomona College Museum of Art Montgomery Art Center
333 N. College Way
Claremont, CA 91711-6344
HOW MUCH
FREE, but registration is recommended
HOW TO REGISTER
REGISTER through SurveyMonkey.
Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/lacac_atupomona08
PARKING
Parking is available and free of charge.
MORE INFORMATION
Anji Gaspar-Milanovic
Internship and Technical Assistance Coordinator
Los Angeles County Arts Commission, 213 202-3981
The Arts Tune-Up is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont Graduate University's Arts Management Program and Career Management Office, and in collaboration with LA Stage Alliance and Arts for LA.
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Laura Zucker, Executive Director, provides leadership in cultural services of all disciplines for the largest county in the United States, encompassing 88 municipalities. The Arts Commission provides leadership and staffing to
support the regional blueprint for arts education, Arts for All; administers a grants program that funds more than 300 nonprofit arts organizations annually; oversees the County's Civic Art Program for capital projects, funds the largest arts internship program in the country in conjunction with the Getty Foundation, programs the John Anson Ford Theatres and supports the Los Angeles County Cultural Calendar on ExperienceLA.com. The Commission also produces free community programs, including the L.A. Holiday Celebration broadcast nationally, and a year-round music program that funds more than 50 free concerts each year in public sites. The 2008-09 President of the Arts Commission is Betty Haagen.
December 01, 2008
New York University invites you to Happy Hour!
Network with other LA-based NYU alumni, learn about alumni opportunities in LA, and raise a toast to NYU. Appetizers are on us!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
7:30 - 9:30 PM
XBar
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, California
Please respond by providing your name, school and year of graduation to Kate Gavulis, 212-992-7617 or kate.gavulis@nyu.edu
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
7:30 - 9:30 PM
XBar
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, California
Please respond by providing your name, school and year of graduation to Kate Gavulis, 212-992-7617 or kate.gavulis@nyu.edu
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