Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
How the Shaw Festival kept 500 people employed during COVID — by taking out pandemic insurance three years ago
National Post: About three-and-a-half years ago, Tim Jennings, the executive director and CEO of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, decided to undertake some risk analysis alongside his CFO. He looked at potential problem areas, and at concerns that might arise throughout the course of an ordinary season of theatre, and came to a shrewd conclusion: The festival should take out an insurance policy against the threat of a pandemic.
Replacing Master and Slave Terminology In My Book
Control Geek: The racial justice protests of 2020 made me realize it was long past time to purge some offensive and obsolete language from the book. Specifically, the use of “master” and “slave” to describe control system architectures where one system has direct control over another. The roots of this book reach back to the 1990s, and I used this language because that’s what was widely used in the industry, and written in the technical standards that are the source materials for this book. But, in recent years, the technical community has become more enlightened, and so have I. So, this 2.1 update replaces that obsolete language, shifting to terms like “primary-secondary”.
ESSAY: What I Did For Love, And How I Plan To Do Less
rescripted.org: A strange ritual would often take place in the halls of my university’s theatre center. College students would convene before classes or rehearsals to present the hours of sleep they had claimed the night before. The student who shared the lowest number would wear this insomnia as a badge of honor. Bonus points were awarded if the time spent awake was done at the library, or in the theatre after hours. I perceived this bizarre ritual as a product of the college experience. Little did I know, the professional theatre would not be that different.
It’s Time for a New Labor Movement in the Performing Arts
Current Affairs: I’ll never forget the week I worked 128 hours—without overtime. There are, of course, only 168 hours in a week, and by the time you have worked your 128th, you no longer have professional standards, boundaries, or even much of an identity left. Me, personally? I was cackling at every provocation and blinking too often to chase away sleep. At the time, I was a concert sound engineer, lighting designer, and technical director, and I was in the process of opening a new concert venue (that must remain nameless) in New York City.
We Commit to Anti-Racist Stage Management Education
HowlRound Theatre Commons: From tragedy to uproar, America is being held to account. There is much work to do during this pause. We are two educators and stage managers who lead the MFA programs at Yale School of Drama and the University of California, San Diego. We identify as women—one Black, and one White—who share an intentional commitment to practicing and teaching anti-racist stage management. We are engaged in inquiry and self-assessment, as well as conversation about how the production of live performance will be transformed and how we can prepare stage managers to lead an authentically equitable theatrical process.
No comments:
Post a Comment