“First, the theatre-makers must ensure they reflect those communities. Second, they need to be trained to work alongside the communities, to channel their lived experience into art, with skill and authenticity and often for community members themselves to perform. And third, the whole theatre industry needs to be open to members of different communities becoming new theatre artists themselves, and commit to supporting and encouraging that.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Novelist Robert Stone Was Inspired By War Abroad And At Home
The novelist died at 77 on Saturday. “‘It’s literally true that the world is seen by the superpowers as a grid of specific targets,’ he told The Paris Review in 1985.’“We’re all on military maps. There happens to be no action in those zones at present, but they’re there. And then there are the wars we fight with ourselves in our own cities. It is the simple truth that, wherever you are, there is an armed enemy present, not far away.'”
The Ballerina Who Started Her Life As A War Orphan [VIDEO]
Michaela DePrince saw an image of a ballerina in a glossy magazine in the orphanage. “I didn’t know what she was, but I thought that this beautiful creature was something I’d never seen before. She looked happy, and I wanted to be happy.”
What’s Next For Thrice-Detained Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera?
“For me, this is ‘Arte de Conducta’ — Behavior Art — and it’s a piece that is decided not by the artist but by a political condition. It was like a test to see how ready everyone was to create a new behavioral dynamic. Right now, people have an on/off button that they turn on and off when something like this happens. I wanted to change that reaction.”
Composers Have To Write Political Music And Opera To Meet The Challenges Of Today’s World
“We as musicians have a responsibility to respond to the world around us, to give the people a song to raise their spirits and fuel the fight in their hearts. So, in light of the political climate we live in — for Eric Garner, for Mike Brown, for Palestine — I pick up my pencil and write.”
The Vast Reach Of The Courtroom Sketch Artist
“Shafer Edwards uses alcohol-based markers to sketch out courtroom scenes on a 9″ by 12″ pad of paper. She doesn’t use pencils to outline and she never erases. ‘I love the stress. I love the immediacy, the spontaneity,’ she says. ‘There is a buzz. There is this electricity that goes on.'”
Kickstarter Crowdfunded A Ton Of Publishing Ideas In 2014
Comics publishing, journalism, and regular publishing were separate categories last year – and the total raised for those projects was almost $34 million.
Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb Reacts To The Charlie Hebdo Massacre By Drawing Cartoons Of A Mohammed’s Ass
“It was tasteless, that’s what they say. And perhaps it was. I’m not going to make a career out of baiting some fucking religious fanatics, you know, by insulting their prophet. I wouldn’t do that. That seems crazy. But then, after they got killed, I just had to draw that cartoon.”
The Golden Globes Are Mostly Meaningless, But Watch A Few Special Races
“The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and the film academy have envy issues. The HFPA craves respect. The academy wishes the Oscars, bound by its rigid format, could be as fun as the Globes. So the jealousy spiral continues, with the academy jostling its dates to mess with the Globes and the HFPA retaliating by hiring talented hosts like Fey and Poehler.”
You Are A Remarkable Musical Expert, Even If You Don’t Know It Yet
“The difference between a virtuoso performer and an ordinary music fan is much smaller than the gulf between that fan and someone with no musical knowledge at all. What’s more, a lot of the most interesting and substantial elements of musicality are things that we (nearly) all share.”