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Opportunity for opera audience development

Posted On March 30, 2015 By Shoshana

Happy Monday. I had a quick thought regarding connecting the dots for opera. Opera folks, are you connecting with other experiences that are foreign language based? Yes, I am giving away a few of my secrets here to my devoted readers. Whenever I work with an opera company, I research for these types of experiences so… 

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Building audiences using top 5 connecting the dots

Posted On February 21, 2014 By Shoshana

I have written a few posts about connecting the dots.  If you missed these posts, simply put, it is a matter of creating programs based on relevancy of what is already happening in our world.  You connect yourself to something bigger that is already making an impact or is currently popular. Today, I was thinking… 

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Is conviction of convention killing us?

Posted On February 3, 2014 By Shoshana

I have read all the “Classical Music, Dead or Alive?” articles.  There was a lively debate last week about it.  Actually, this debate has been going on for many years according to this article from the New Yorker: The Fat Lady is Still Singing… As I mentioned in the past, the arts have traditions of… 

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Connecting the dots for arts audience development

Posted On July 25, 2012 By Shoshana

I wanted to expand a little bit on my idea that I had last week during the impromptu twitter chat on this topic.  Basically we were chatting about outreach (putting yourself out there) for audience development, and I had this thought: I think a major problem we have in the #arts is that we are… 

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