I wanted to leave you this week with a quick thought – “Two way streets drive audience development!” We are all busy in this world. We all want people to care about what we are doing in life. One of the best ways to create more care is to care more about what other people…
I had someone write to me about a reason why he and his wife, let’s call them Mr. and Mrs. Gen Y, decided not to go to an arts event. It wasn’t about the programming as many of you might think would be the main reason. It was about the details. Mr. Gen Y said…
The Arts and Humanities Are Alive and Well — Just Watch the Millennials – an article that I found this morning by Christine Henseler. The arts and humanities might be going through a rough patch, but if you ask the Millennials they can tell you that disciplines such as classical music, visual art and fiction…
I created a Storify with commentary on facts I found to be super important. For my email subscribers, you will want to click the link to go to the website to view. Wonderful Wednesday to you all! [View the story “Culture Track 2014 Report” on Storify]
Today I spent the majority of the day working with new software to create my latest “commercial” video for our new service, ADS Evaluations. Take a look! After this was accomplished, I decided to take a short break and listen to WXRT online. Yes, instead of turning on my radio, I am streaming music live…
What a great find this morning! Did you know there is a new campaign by B-Classic to create a classical music comeback? Belgium’s B-Classic music festival, whose mission is to “give classical music the same recognition as pop and rock music,” brings us a rather insteresting sensory collision in the form of the music video…
I have some news! I am currently working on book 2 which is the follow up of the first book. My The How of Audience Development For the Arts was the beginning conversation, the nuts and bolts about audience development. In book 2 are my thoughts, ideas and philosophies collected from my 5 years worth…
Quick post today. What is catching my attention these days is when an artist or organization does something unexpected. It gets the attention of the press and equally attracts attention to stand out from the crowd of typical news. How do you do something unexpected? It still needs to align with your mission, yet you…
A quick post today. I tweeted an old blog post over the weekend, and I realized that despite being 6 years old, we are still talking and thinking about the same challenges in the arts. I do see some forward momentum, however, it is fairly slow and few and far between. We keep reiterating the…
I recently have been coming across different definitions of “audience development” and wanted to share them with you. The main reason I am sharing is to show you how audience development includes: audience building; building relationships; community, collaboration, connection and caring; engagement, participation and audience involvement; increasing ticket sales, subscribers, members, donors, volunteers and sponsors;…
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