Basically, the fear is the same as that of public speaking – except, as Christine Ro explains, that one of the best tools for combating the fear of public speaking isn’t available for audience participation.
Category: AUDIENCE
The Best Way We Can Honor Our Veterans Is By Giving Them Access To The Arts
Nina Stoller-Lindsey tries another angle in defense of the NEA: “At first glance, eradicating this cultural hub may seem to have little to do with the military – but giving soldiers access to the arts is one of the most effective ways we can help them both prepare and recover from the demands of their duty. In eliminating this agency, Trump would be doing a huge disservice to them and to the veterans he promised to support.”
How We’re Creating Games That Change People’s Minds, And Even Their Real-Life Actions
Lindsay Grace: “In American University’s Game Lab and Studio, which I direct, we’re creating a wide range of persuasive games to test various strategies of persuasion and to gauge players’ responses. We have developed games to highlight the problems with using delivery drones, encourage cultural understanding and assess understanding of mathematics. And we’re expanding the realm beyond education and health.”
How Big Data Is Replacing Execs’ Taste And Intuition At The Center Of The Music Biz
“Whereas in the past, the industry relied primarily on sales and how often a songs were played on the radio, they can now see what specific songs people are listening to, where they are hearing it and how they are consuming it.”
Opera And Broadway Have A Fruitful Relationship – If Only More Opera Fans Understood That, Says Anne Midgette
“It seems arbitrary to assert that Broadway musicals exist in a separate category from an art form that happily embraces popular forms such as opéra comique, Singspiel and operetta (all of which involve spoken dialogue interspersed with sung numbers). Those opera lovers who profess to look down on musicals act as though the genre were best represented by Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick.”
Why Are So Many Americans So Hostile To Government Funding Of The Arts?
In most wealthy countries, the idea of completely abolishing the equivalents of the NEA and NEH would be politically poisonous if not unthinkable; in the United States, there have been factions calling for those agencies to ve terminated for pretty much their entire existence. Why is the U.S. such an outlier on this issue? Josephine Livingstone argues that the reasons lie deep in the nation’s history.
How Instagram Helped Poet Rupi Kaur Find Her Audience – And Sell 1.4M Books (So Far)
The 24-year-old Canadian poet became famous when Instagram banned a self-portrait in which she was lying on her bed, with sheets stained by menstrual blood. That banning got her 1.3 million followers to the site, where she publishes poetry and illustrations. She credits social media for its openness: “I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. All their writing was, you know, about the Canadian landscape or something. And my poem is about this woman with her legs spread open.”
The Summer Music – Especially Opera – Competition In The UK Is Pretty Fierce
There are betrayals, arguments, backstabbing … and it’s all good for those who love to watch classical music outside in the summer. “Rival conductors’ batons may not yet be clashing in combat, and it has not quite come to picnic-hampers-at-dawn, but there is a new and marked element of serious competition between the growing number of rivals.”
What Exactly Is Going To Happen In “The Shed”?
“The opportunity for us to design a ground-up building for the arts forced us to ask the question: ‘What will art look like in 10 years? 20 years? 30 years?’ And the answer was that we simply could not know. Artists today are working across disciplines, in all media and all sizes. That will continue to change. The one thing that we could always be certain of is that there would always be a need for space, a need for structural loading capacity, and a need for electrical power.”
Roger Tomlinson: Measuring An Audience? But What Are You Measuring?
“I have been a champion of audience data for a long time. I conducted my first year-long audience survey at the Vic in Stoke on Trent in 1969, supervised by Keele University. I have been commissioning research surveys for over 40 years and the Arts Council published my book ‘Boxing Clever’ on turning data into audiences in 1993… So, I ought to be welcoming the concept of quality metrics and what Culture Counts proposes to deliver for Arts Council England… But I am left with a lot of uneasy questions, mostly methodological.”