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Creating a space to listen for better partnerships

Posted On April 29, 2015 By Shoshana

I wasn’t planning on writing a post today, but an article made me do it! This is a perfect continuation of the conversation from yesterday. Using puppets to break down barriers between people and languages via the Knight Arts posting. These particular segments had me thinking: Is part of the work when creating relationships with community partners about… 

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Go to them

Posted On June 16, 2014 By Shoshana

I woke up this morning with a thought about audience development.  This is not uncommon, but today’s thought is shareable. Why do we keep insisting that the audiences come to us?  And, because of this mentality, many of us are in artscentric circles with no real communication and relationships with people outside of the arts… 

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