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By: Black File Cabinet 2 Drawer

Black File Cabinet 2 Drawer — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:18:00 +0000

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thanks

By: birth records

birth records — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:25:37 +0000

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By: Loving the Wabi of Theatre : Bitter Lemons

Loving the Wabi of Theatre : Bitter Lemons — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:52:05 +0000

[...] that introduction I offer some words from my Austin, Texas colleague Travis Bedard on his Cambiare Productions blog. His frustrations [...]

By: aaronandersen

aaronandersen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:46:41 +0000

I didn't think you were actually conversing at 2am. I just mean that the name of the blog and the #2amt hashtag make a fetish of caffeine-fueled ranting. It makes me nostalgic for pancake houses and truckstops from my college days.

And I'm glad I don't read a lot of grant applications! But I do work with folks who write a lot of them. And the best ones are either a formality, because a relationship already secured the grant, or are full of tangible things, like the number of 6-9 year-olds who attended this series of education concerts.

By: Travis Bedard

Travis Bedard — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:34:16 +0000

I would agree (especially for my part) except that it's not just us. If I hand you the average grant application there are 7 adjectives for every event. 5 of them are pseudo-academic adjectives and the other two are the buzzwords of the moment, and that's the same language folks are trying to send out to their audiences.

And for the record? Most of the #2amt traffic is at 3-4PM CST

By: aaronandersen

aaronandersen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:29:36 +0000

Hmmm, maybe the conversation sounds like “half-drunk epileptic docents” because said docents fetishize talking about such things at 2am. And because any conversation on Twitter sounds epileptic.

Said with love.

By: 2am. Thinking outside the black box.

2am. Thinking outside the black box. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:10:58 +0000

[...] Travis Bedard on finding words. This post might exist just to make Don Hall’s head pound. But it might help you see some of the disconnects in terminology, in explanation, in showing and not telling. How do we communicate why we do what we do, why we love this work, why we think you as an audience might enjoy seeing us work? Maybe the key isn’t in high-falutin’ language or literary theory. Maybe we need to be open and straightforward about it. Maybe we just say, here’s a story, I think you’re going to like it. Or here’s a show that’ll blow your mind. [...]

By: nancykenny

nancykenny — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:32:23 +0000

I hope you are allowed more than one wife in Texas because I could marry you for this post.

By: liquidlogic

liquidlogic — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:28:35 +0000

That's actually the sneaky agenda behind the video listings on my site. We're so darn good at articulation why we want to do the work we do, it's essential that we can tell a prospective audience member why it will work for them, in a language that will make them think 'actually, yeah, that does sound kinda cool'.

This is where a sound understanding of demographics come in, I suppose. That language we're searching for is really a bunch of languages, isn't it? Depending on who we're directing the pitch at, or talking to.

By: Travis Bedard

Travis Bedard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:41:50 +0000

I think you're right, and I think that we do. There's been a LOT of talk
both about why audience should (and would) like a project as well as what we
can do dramaturgically to make sure that they really are welcome as part of
the process.