Today, we opened up this blog to the public eye.
For the last 2.5 months, we've been aggregating and parsing research in advance of the "Recession or Reset" working session at the conference of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, July 17-19, in D.C. Comments are enabled (you just have to register with blogger.com), and we welcome your thoughts and ideas as you make your way through the materials.
Some of the big questions driving this work include:
- What does the current economic crisis mean for North American arts in general, and the theatre in particular?
- How are companies addressing issues of programming, funding, community support?
- What are the specific challenges to the arts today?
- What methods and new ideas and coming to the fore as artists, administrators, and funders are forced to re-evaluate current practices?
We have created this blog with a dramaturgical eye -- that is, from all the information out there in the world on this topic, we have tried to present the most current and useful of it in such a way so as to actually be Of Use. The posts here are designed to serve as a jumping-off point for larger discussions, in organizations and arts communities large and small, about how to come out of this economic crisis on the other side not just whole, but perhaps with a better sense of who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
We urge you to consider the idea of RESET. By which we mean, on the most basic level, can we learn from this mess?
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