Today at 11 am ET, I chatted with Erica Sipes and others about how individual musicians can use audience development concepts and ideas to build their audiences. We mainly touched upon the 4 C’s of audience development: Connection, Community, Collaboration, and Caring. Below is the full conversation. I hope you can join us next time,…
Today I have been thinking about the year 2010. With all the “Best in 2010” articles floating around, it can’t be helped. In the near future, I will be sifting through my tweets to find the best tweets for the 2010 Audience Development Twitter Awards. At this moment though, I have been giving much thought…
I’m working on a juicy blog for the future. In the meantime, I have been thinking about how challenging it is to get people to talk about audience development, yet everyone seems to have questions. So why is the arts community as a group shying away from major audience development discussion? Here are my thoughts:…
I had been reading the article in the Ottawa Citizen: Where have all the theatregoers gone? The article takes on the question after a theater run that was supposed to run 5 weeks closed one week early due to not enough audience. The problem seems to be that while Ottawa theatre companies have been springing…
I finally want to take the time to chime in again about Michael Kaiser’s tour, Arts in Crisis. The media continues to give us reports on each of his stops around the country. The latest article had the most interesting sound bytes by far: Arts groups get advice from Kennedy Center president Be bold. Be…
It’s Friday, and it’s time to announce the winners for all the categories of The 2009 Audience Development Specialists Tweets Awards! Most Interesting Venues The nominees are: Keeping artists in the Loop Creative Showcase | Pop-Up Art program turns vacant buildings into galleries http://bit.ly/4DVbs8 The Chicago Loop Alliance plays matchmaker with artists and landlords to…
Collaboration for the arts! I have been seeing more interesting collaborations in our arts world, so I thought I would do a quick top 10 list for ways to collaborate in the arts! Programming collaborations – pretty self explanatory, but I challenge you to come up with new mixtures. Marketing collaborations – this could mean…
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