Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Academy Museum curators bring women's stories to the surface
Los Angeles Times: During the silent era, there were plenty of female editors. They were called “cutters,” and because the work was meticulous and time-consuming, it was considered akin to sewing, and paid accordingly.
Black on Broadway: How Black Talent Is Fueling the Revival of the Great White Way
www.theroot.com: This was how our audience was greeted back to Broadway. Finally, after 16 months without an audience in the space, the theatre was filled with this incredible energy. It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced; a moment met with explosive energy from our audience that will forever be etched into my memory.
Disabled and clinically vulnerable shut out from return of live music and theatre
Music | The Guardian: Performers and audiences who are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) are being shut out of the arts due to a lack of ongoing safety provisions, according to a number of people within the sector who cite a “two-tier” cultural reopening.
Los Angeles Anti-Racism Theatre Standards
LA ARTS: The LA Anti-Racist Theatre Standards were created by a diverse collective of LA theatre artists dedicated to true equity and looking to create lasting, systemic change in our institutions and community. Inspired and influenced by the work of We See You White American Theatre, we drafted the following list of standards and practices that are specifically geared towards the Los Angeles theatre community, a community that has often had incredible leadership and contributions from our BIPOC theatres, and yet, as a whole, has failed to represent the diversity of Los Angeles.
Plus-Size Dancer Colleen Werner Is Challenging Ballet to Celebrate All Body Shapes
Dance Magazine: In an industry with strict physique expectations, Colleen Werner is forging an alternate path—an adult dance experience that celebrates body diversity. While studying to become a clinical mental health counselor in Nashville, she's simultaneously dancing with Black Sheep Ballet, a virtual company that aims to bring ballet to more diverse audiences.
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