2,235 stories by "Joe Patti"
Sometimes a good headline is all it takes. When I saw a link to a New Yorker piece about "Bassoonfluencers," I knew I had to at least take a look. It turned out to be an article about a woma…
I read stories celebrating the fact that Covid-19 is finally making businesses recognize the benefits of telecommuting, confident that there will be this great revolution that will see peopl…
It appears Indiana University's Center for Cultural Affairs was having some sort of virtual convening around the topic of New. Not Normal: Artists, the Creative Sector, and Innovation after …
I don't know about everyone else, but not having a slate of performances on my schedule has kept me just as occupied as actually having events. While I am definitely grateful to still have a…
At the end of last month, Nina Simon did the lead presentation for Opera America's virtual conference. (Or perhaps it was just the lead presentation for the topic of "Creating Real Belonging…
Last week I had a post on Arts Hacker featuring the Event Safety Alliance's (ESA)Â Reopening Guide for live event venues. You may have already seen the guide being passed around by a lot …
Thanks to funding from a mysterious third party, today my state presenter consortium was able to participate in a webinar lead by Collen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS where th…
In another post, we had shared some general guidance provided by the Downtown Professionals Network for re-opening arts and cultural venues as Covid-19 restrictions ease up. The Event Safety…
There was a piece on Vox today that I jumped on with interest because the title seemed to imply it was about a family run dance school applying for the Paycheck Protection Program. I sho…
There has been a lot of conversation among my peers about how to revamp our venue seating charts to comply with social distancing. Some people were seating in every other row with 3-4 seats …
Interesting article on Harvard Business Review site titled Is Your Business Masquerading as Data-Driven? Now you probably feel that when are stumbling blind through an environment everyone s…
The challenges of Covid-19 raise for arts organizations has resulted in a number of valuable resources being produced. When I came across them, I am often torn between writing about them on …
As live-streaming performances moves from being quickly assembled, impromptu performances organizations were using to keep connected with audiences during Covid-19 quarantine toward being a …
A number of theaters around the country have started posting messages on their marquees to bolster the morale of their community. Here at my venue, we were trying to think of a message to po…
When I mentioned organizations addressing issues of health and safety in my post yesterday, I was thinking about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Between high school and my first couple years of…
You may have seen the video message by Guthrie Theatre artistic director Joseph Haj last week where he laid out why the Guthrie wouldn't be offering their content virtually as other places h…
There was an article on Arts Professional UK a couple weeks ago that presented an intriguing idea"the use of receipt lotteries to fund arts & education. Receipt lotteries started in Taiw…
You may remember reading that Germany had rolled out €50 billion ($54 billion) in funding for the arts a few weeks back. The news was touted as putting arts funding in the US to shame.…
There are a lot of stories out there about how some US states are allowing businesses to open. To my knowledge, none have reached the point of allowing live performance venues to open yet, b…
If you are looking for advice on best practices for arts and cultural entities once they are allowed to re-open, Downtown Professionals Network (DPN) has created a website specifically focus…
Some encouraging news for all you data hungry folks. The special Covid-19 version of the Culture Track survey I mentioned last week launched today…but only for some communities. Apparently…
I don't know about everyone else, but I started feeling like the phrases "unprecedented time" and "we're all in this together" got overused pretty quickly these last couple months. This …
I noticed something very interesting on Friday morning as I was checking out different news sites. It appears that on at least a subconscious level a number of news outlets equate theaters w…
Capacity Interactive's Erik Gensler scored a podcast interview with Seth Godin to discuss what the post-Covid-19 future for the arts might look like. There is a transcript of the intervi…
June 30 is the end of the fiscal year for a lot of non-profits. In light of that, non-profit organizations generally have board meeting around this time of year in an effort to report where …
